Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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 bestTop 34% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No wipe seen yet. | ||||
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 wipesQuick answers
from the figures on this pageRules and settings
What are the rules and settings on Facepunch Release?
The name of Facepunch Release gives no gather rate. Groups can reach 8 players, the default for the game. survival is the game mode, the default game of gathering, building and raiding. Raiding and player combat are enabled. The in-game Official tab of Rust lists it. VAC from Valve is active as anti-cheat.
What is the map for Facepunch Release?
Facepunch Release uses a procedural map of size 4,500 with seed 6974352, generated by the game. From this page, RustMaps can display it: the same size and seed give the same map.
Population
How many players are on Facepunch Release?
The current population of Facepunch Release is 0, out of 500 slots. Averaging 0 players over seven days, it peaked at 4. The highest average over the last 48 hours occurred at 09:00 UTC, with 1 players.
Where does Facepunch Release stand in the rankings of Rust servers?
Facepunch Release is in the top 34% of all ranked servers, at #7,612 for player hours over the last seven days.
Tags
What is the meaning of the tags on Facepunch Release?
The 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; gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp500 (Max players): It holds up to 500 players; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, which is the default for Rust; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on protocol 2634; cs167781 (Build): The current game build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the default network layer for Rust, and this server uses it; $r? (Region code): There is no region code from the tags Facepunch Release publishes. Also in the tags, and shown at the top of this page: its players now, its queue, and when its world was made.
Who is the operator of Facepunch Release?
124 other servers we track share the playrust.com hostname with Facepunch Release, so the same operator most likely runs them all.
Where does Facepunch Release appear in When Is Rust Force Wipe lists and filters?
These When Is Rust Force Wipe lists include Facepunch Release: Official Rust servers. Its filters on the server list are Type: No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Boxes: Official only.
Server details
What is the location of Facepunch Release?
There is no region published by Facepunch Release. When Is Rust Force Wipe displays the location a server reports, not the physical location of the machine. Connect using 198.244.177.77:28017.
What is the performance like on Facepunch Release?
Over the last 48 hours the average was 100 server fps, and the lowest was 77. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world came to a peak of 115,448 entities. Memory use peaked at 4,447 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and entity counts climb.
How stable is Facepunch Release, and is it online now?
Right now Facepunch Release is up. Its reported uptime shows a restart roughly 8 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw it up 168 of 168 hours, 100% of the time. First seen by When Is Rust Force Wipe on 13 September 2026.
What is the Rust version for Facepunch Release?
The version on Facepunch Release is Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781, on Windows. Steam updates your game, but you need the same protocol to join.
Wipe schedule
When does Facepunch Release wipe?
The wipes of Facepunch Release on record are too few to show its rhythm. The monthly force wipe, next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, wipes every Rust server. The world in play now was built 14 days 7 hours ago.
Connect
What steps are needed to join Facepunch Release?
Open Rust, press F1 for the console, then type client.connect 198.244.177.77:28017. Alternatively, use Launch Rust on this page to start Rust via Steam and join.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished as mp500,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8
On When Is Rust Force Wipe
Game
gmrust
mp500
ts8
v2634
cs167781
ptrak
$r?
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.