1UP
11856servers on
Hi-score
86772players now
2UP
363fresh wipes · 3h
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[AE] Facepunch 2

Online 185.179.203.164:28015 checked 8m ago

official monthly wipes vanilla

Stats

Players
15/ 350
4% full
Slots
335open
350 max players
7-day avg
9
7-day average · peak 26
FPS
111
server frames a second, the latest hour; the bar fills at 60
Uptime
8h 39m
since its last restart; the bar fills at a day
Rank
#986
top 4%
Last wipe · new game
27d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe · continue?
7d 3h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW

Players

AveragePeak
0510152016:0001:0010:0019:0004:0013:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

05010015020016:0001:0010:0019:0004:0013:00

48 hours: hourly readings. 30 to 90 days: one point a day, with the day's average and lowest fps, most entities and most memory, measured since 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15001k1.5k2k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 4% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 3h. The force wipe · high confidence

28
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 3h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
35d 3h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

010203040+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 28, 27 hours in.

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:42 UTC FW27d ago 28 – running 4

Peak: the most players in the first 48 hours. Crowd: whether every day of the wipe kept at least half that peak, or the day it fell below. A new world less than six hours after a wipe is a restart, not a wipe of its own.

Similar servers

the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes
Rustoria.co - EU East Long
EU · groups of 12+ · monthly · 318 on average
440 / 475
Rusty Moose |EU Monthly|
EU · groups of 12+ · monthly · 214 on average
266 / 300
Rustopia.gg - US Large
NA · groups of 16+ · monthly · 128 on average
58 / 200
Rustafied.com - EU Long - Large
EU · groups of 16+ · monthly · 126 on average
90 / 125
Magic Rust — Long | Kлaccикa x1 | Pyccкий
EU · groups of 150+ · 1x · monthly · 121 on average
140 / 300
Rusty Moose |US Monthly|
NA · groups of 12+ · monthly · 111 on average
52 / 200

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Rules and settings

Which map is loaded on [AE] Facepunch 2?

Size 4,500 and seed 1120603257 define the game-generated procedural map on [AE] Facepunch 2. From this page RustMaps displays it, since the same size and seed always give the same map.

What are the rules and settings on [AE] Facepunch 2?

No gather rate appears in the name of [AE] Facepunch 2. The game's default applies: groups of 8 players at most. gather, build and raid in the standard game: that is survival. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. Rust's Official tab in-game includes it. Vanilla is what it calls itself: no changed rates, kits or rules: just the game Facepunch releases. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.

Wipe schedule

What is the wipe schedule on [AE] Facepunch 2?

Once a month [AE] Facepunch 2 wipes, and the force wipe is the occasion. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives, and that is its next wipe, as it is for every Rust server. This world has been running since 27 days 21 hours. A wipe once a month is set out in its tags.

What happens on [AE] Facepunch 2 when wipe day arrives?

At their busiest, its recent wipes averaged 28 players. 27 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd was at its highest.

Tags

Who is behind [AE] Facepunch 2?

A playrust.com hostname appears on [AE] Facepunch 2 and on 124 other servers we track, which points to one operator.

What do the server tags on [AE] Facepunch 2 mean?

Read by the game's server browser, official (official): Run by Facepunch or one of its partners: the servers in Rust's Official tab. Rust does not publish this, so it is kept by hand; gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp350 (Max players): It holds 350 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Team size is capped at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): Protocol 2635 is required; a different version cannot connect; cs168909 (Build): Build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard one; $r? (Region code): The region code is blank; ^m (Monthly): It wipes monthly, alongside the force wipe from Facepunch; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules: just the game Facepunch releases; ^t (Tutorial on): Start here with Facepunch's tutorial if you are new; sc2 (Custom tag): This is a custom tag, set by the owner or a plugin, not one of Rust's standard tags are listed under [AE] Facepunch 2. The top of this page also shows the live player count, the queue and when the world was made, all from the tags.

Which Rust Leaderboard lists and filters include [AE] Facepunch 2?

[AE] Facepunch 2 appears on the following Rust Leaderboard lists: Rust tutorial servers, Official Rust server leaderboard and Best vanilla Rust servers. You can find it through these server list filters: Type: Vanilla and No plugins at all; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v and Tutorial on ^t; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Players now: At least 10; Boxes: Official only.

About the server

Which Rust version is [AE] Facepunch 2 on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what [AE] Facepunch 2 runs. Steam updates your game so it sits on the same protocol needed to join.

Is [AE] Facepunch 2 up right now, and how steady is it?

Right now the lights are on at [AE] Facepunch 2. About 8 hours ago is when it last restarted, judged by the uptime it reports. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days: 167 of 168 hours on. 13 September 2026 is when Rust Leaderboard first logged it.

How well does [AE] Facepunch 2 perform?

The 48-hour average is 122 server fps; the floor was 75. At its peak the world carried 141,366 entities: buildings, deployables and the rest. It drew up to 5,315 MB of memory at its highest. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count keeps climbing.

Where in the world is [AE] Facepunch 2 hosted?

Nothing about a region is published by [AE] Facepunch 2. A server's stated location is what Rust Leaderboard shows; it does not look up where the machine actually stands. 185.179.203.164:28015 is its address.

Population

Where does [AE] Facepunch 2 sit in the rankings?

Player hours over seven days put [AE] Facepunch 2 at #986, among the top 4% of ranked servers.

How many players are on [AE] Facepunch 2 right now?

15 players fill 350 slots on [AE] Facepunch 2 right now. Seven days back: an average of 9 players, a peak of 26. Peak activity over the last 48 hours came at 17:00 UTC, with an average of 16 players.

Connect

How do I join [AE] Facepunch 2?

In the Rust console (F1) enter client.connect 185.179.203.164:28015. Launch Rust from this page instead and it opens the game through Steam and joins for you.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp350,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs168909,sc2,ts8

On Rust Leaderboard

official
Run by Facepunch or one of its partners: the servers in Rust's Official tab. Rust does not publish this, so it is kept by hand.

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp350
Max players It holds 350 slots.
ts8
Group limit Team size is capped at 8, which is the game default.
v2635
Protocol Protocol 2635 is required; a different version cannot connect.
cs168909
Build Build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard one.
$r?
Region code The region code is blank.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly It wipes monthly, alongside the force wipe from Facepunch.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla No changed rates, kits or rules: just the game Facepunch releases.

Gameplay

^t
Tutorial on Start here with Facepunch's tutorial if you are new.

Other

sc2
Custom tag This is a custom tag, set by the owner or a plugin, not one of Rust's standard tags.

Players now (cp), the queue (qp) and the wipe time (born) are in the tag string too; they change every few minutes and are shown at the top of the page. Flag meanings are Facepunch's.