[EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small

Online 79.137.98.21:28017 checked 6m ago

official quad monthly wipes softcore
18/ 250
players now
7% full
15
7-day average
peak 50
#731
rank
top 3%
4d ago
last wipe
monthly schedule
2d 21h
next wipe
Thu 1 Oct, 18:00 UTC FW

Players

AveragePeak
01020304021:0006:0015:0001:0010:0019:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

010020030040021:0006:0015:0001:0010:0019:00

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
120040060080020 Sep22 Sep23 Sep25 Sep26 Sep28 Sep

Top 3% of all ranked servers, and #40 of the quad servers (top 5%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 1 October, 18:00 UTC, in 2d 21h. The force wipe · high confidence

21
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

2d 21h
Thu 1 Oct, 18:00 UTC
FW
37d 22h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

05101520+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 21, 31 hours in.

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 24 Sep, 11:47 UTC4d ago 21 – running 15

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.

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Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Wipes

What is the wipe schedule on [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?

[EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small wipes once a month, with the force wipe. Its next wipe is the force wipe on Thursday 1 October at 18:00 UTC, when every Rust server wipes. Its current world was made 4 days 8 hours ago. It publishes a monthly wipe schedule in its tags.

What does wipe day look like on [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?

Its recent wipes drew 21 players at their busiest, on average. On the latest wipe the crowd peaked 31 hours after the wipe.

Players

How busy is [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?

Right now [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small has 18 players on 250 slots. Over the last seven days it averaged 15 players and peaked at 50. In the last 48 hours it was busiest at 15:00 UTC, with 37 players on average.

How does [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small rank against other Rust servers?

[EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small is #731 on player hours over the last seven days, in the top 3% of all ranked servers. Among quad servers it is #40.

Rules and map

What are the rules and settings on [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?

[EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small gives no gather rate in its name. Groups are limited to 4 players (quad). Its game mode is softcore, Facepunch's easier mode: you keep part of your loot. Players can fight and raid each other. It is in Rust's in-game Official tab. Valve's anti-cheat, VAC, is on.

Which map does [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small run?

[EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small runs a procedural map, generated by the game, of size 3,750 with seed 714955012. The same size and seed give the same map, so it can be looked at on RustMaps from this page.

Tags and lists

What do the server tags on [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small mean?

[EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small publishes these tags, which the game's server browser reads: 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; gmsoftcore (Game mode): Softcore: an easier ruleset; mp250 (Max players): 250 slots; ts4 (Group limit): At most 4 per team; v2634 (Protocol): Game protocol 2634: your game has to be on the same version to join; cs165988 (Build): Game build 165988; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's standard network layer; $r? (Region code): No region code set; ^m (Monthly): Wipes once a month, with Facepunch's force wipe; ^t (Tutorial on): New players can start with Facepunch's tutorial here. Its players now, its queue and the time its world was made are in the tags too, and are shown at the top of this page.

Which Zongarust lists and filters include [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?

[EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small fits these Zongarust lists: Best EU Rust servers, Best official Rust servers and Rust tutorial servers. On the server list it comes up under these filters: Region: Europe; Type: No plugins at all; Game mode: Softcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Tutorial on ^t; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last week; Players now: At least 10; Average players: 10+ on average; Boxes: Official only.

Who runs [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?

[EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small publishes a playrust.com hostname, and so do 124 other servers we track, so they are most likely run by the same operator.

The server

Where is [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small located?

[EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small publishes no region tag, but its name points to Europe. Zongarust shows where a server says it is; it does not look up where the machine stands. Its address is 79.137.98.21:28017.

Is [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small online, and how reliable is it?

[EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small is online right now. It last restarted about 12 hours ago, going by the uptime it reports. Over the last 7 full days it was up 100% of the time, 168 of 168 hours. Zongarust first saw it on 13 September 2026.

Does [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small run smoothly?

Over the last 48 hours it ran at 138 server fps on average, never below 89. It carried up to 112,461 entities: buildings, deployables and everything else in the world. It used up to 6,572 MB of memory. Low fps and a climbing entity count are what players feel as lag.

Which version of Rust does [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small run?

[EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 165988 on Windows. Your game has to be on the same protocol to join; Steam updates it for you.

Joining

How do I join [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?

Start Rust, press F1 to open the console and enter client.connect 79.137.98.21:28017. Or use Launch Rust and join on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you. Its website is http://playrust.com.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp250,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,^t,gmsoftcore,cs165988,ts4

On Zongarust

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

gmsoftcore
Game mode Softcore: an easier ruleset.
mp250
Max players 250 slots.
ts4
Group limit At most 4 per team.
v2634
Protocol Game protocol 2634: your game has to be on the same version to join.
cs165988
Build Game build 165988.
ptrak
Networking RakNet, the game's standard network layer.
$r?
Region code No region code set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Wipes once a month, with Facepunch's force wipe.

Gameplay

^t
Tutorial on New players can start with Facepunch's tutorial here.

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.