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[AE] Facepunch 2

Online 185.179.203.164:28015 checked 13m ago

official monthly wipes vanilla
Drop in
28/ 350 players now 8% full
147-day averagepeak 38
#880ranktop 4%
16d agolast wipemonthly schedule
18d 4hnext wipeThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW

Players

AveragePeak
01020304015:0000:0009:0019:0004:0013:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

05010015020015:0000:0009:0019:0004:0013:00

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 Sep26 Sep1 Oct7 Oct12 Oct18 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 18d 4h. The force wipe · high confidence

wipe-day peak28players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

  • 18d 4h
    Thu 5 Nov, 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 FW16d 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.

Neighbouring dive spots

Similar servers

the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes

From the figures on this page

Quick answers

Tags and listings

Where does [AE] Facepunch 2 appear in Rust Going Deep lists and filters?

The Rust Going Deep lists that carry [AE] Facepunch 2 are: Rust tutorial servers, Official Rust servers, tracked live and Vanilla Rust servers. You can find it on the server list by these 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; Average players: 10+ on average; Boxes: Official only.

Who's in charge of [AE] Facepunch 2?

The playrust.com hostname from [AE] Facepunch 2 also appears on 124 other servers we track, suggesting a common operator.

How should you read the tags on [AE] Facepunch 2?

[AE] Facepunch 2's game browser tags read: 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): Survival, as standard Rust does it; mp350 (Max players): The slot count is 350; ts8 (Group limit): It uses the default team limit: 8; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game has to be on protocol 2634; cs167781 (Build): This server runs build 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the network layer Rust uses by default; $r? (Region code): No region is set; ^m (Monthly): Facepunch's force wipe is when this server wipes each month; ^v (Vanilla): It's the vanilla game: rates, kits and rules are all standard; ^t (Tutorial on): This server offers Facepunch's tutorial for newcomers; sc2 (Custom tag): A plugin or the owner set this tag; it's not one Facepunch provides. The tags carry its player count right now, its queue and the world's age, and all three are displayed up top.

About the server

Is [AE] Facepunch 2 lag-free?

The last 48 hours saw an average of 118 server fps, never dropping below 73. The entity count reached a high of 144,708, covering buildings, deployables and everything else. 5,700 MB was the highest memory it used. Players experience lag when fps drops and entities climb.

Where can you find [AE] Facepunch 2?

[AE] Facepunch 2 does not put out a region. Rust Going Deep reports the location a server claims; it does not check where the machine actually is. To connect, use 185.179.203.164:28015.

How reliable is [AE] Facepunch 2?

[AE] Facepunch 2 is up and reachable at the moment. According to its reported uptime, the last restart was about 8 hours ago. Over the past full 7 days it stayed up for 168 of 168 hours, or 100%. 13 September 2026 is when Rust Going Deep first saw it.

What Rust version is [AE] Facepunch 2 on?

On Windows, [AE] Facepunch 2 runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. Steam handles the update; you just need your game on the matching protocol to join.

Wipe details

When does [AE] Facepunch 2 wipe?

One wipe a month is all [AE] Facepunch 2 does, and that is the force wipe. All Rust servers wipe at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. 16 days 20 hours is how long ago this world came into being. Its tags publish a wipe schedule that runs monthly.

What happens on wipe day at [AE] Facepunch 2?

The average peak across recent wipes is 28 players. The peak crowd on the latest wipe came 27 hours in.

Map and rules

What settings are in place on [AE] Facepunch 2?

The name of [AE] Facepunch 2 contains no gather rate. The group limit is the game's default of 8 players. It runs survival, gather, build and raid, the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. The in-game Official tab lists it. Vanilla is its own description: it's the vanilla game: rates, kits and rules are all standard. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.

What's the map on [AE] Facepunch 2?

The map on [AE] Facepunch 2 is procedural and size 4,500, generated by the game with seed 1120603257. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, since the same size and seed produce the same map.

Population

What's the population like on [AE] Facepunch 2?

Out of 350 slots, 28 are filled on [AE] Facepunch 2 right now. For the past week, players averaged 14 with a high of 38. The busiest point in the last 48 hours was 18:00 UTC, averaging 31 players.

What position does [AE] Facepunch 2 hold in the server rankings?

For player hours in the last seven days, [AE] Facepunch 2 ranks #880, within the top 4% of ranked servers.

Join info

What's the process to join [AE] Facepunch 2?

Use Launch Rust on this page to open Rust through Steam and connect, or start Rust, press F1 and enter client.connect 185.179.203.164:28015.

What each one means

Server tags

Published as mp350,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs167781,sc2,ts8

On Rust Going Deep

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 Survival, as standard Rust does it.
mp350
Max players The slot count is 350.
ts8
Group limit It uses the default team limit: 8.
v2634
Protocol To join, your game has to be on protocol 2634.
cs167781
Build This server runs build 167781.
ptrak
Networking RakNet, the network layer Rust uses by default.
$r?
Region code No region is set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Facepunch's force wipe is when this server wipes each month.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla It's the vanilla game: rates, kits and rules are all standard.

Gameplay

^t
Tutorial on This server offers Facepunch's tutorial for newcomers.

Other

sc2
Custom tag A plugin or the owner set this tag; it's not one Facepunch provides.

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.