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 3% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 22d 21h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 76, 5 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 17:39 UTC FW12d ago | 76 | – | running | 14 |
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
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from the figures on this pageRules and settings
What are the rules and settings on [US East] Facepunch Primitive 1?
The name of [US East] Facepunch Primitive 1 gives no gather rate. The game's default group cap of 8 players applies. primitive is the game mode, melee, bows and spears in place of guns. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. The in-game Official tab of Rust lists it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
Which map is running on [US East] Facepunch Primitive 1?
[US East] Facepunch Primitive 1 uses a procedural map of size 4,250 with seed 135398213, generated by the game. From this page, RustMaps can display it: the same size and seed give the same map.
Population
What is the player count on [US East] Facepunch Primitive 1?
[US East] Facepunch Primitive 1 holds 31 players of its 400 slots at the moment. The seven-day average is 26 players, with a peak of 49. In the last 48 hours, the peak hour was 22:00 UTC with an average of 42 players.
What is [US East] Facepunch Primitive 1's ranking among Rust servers?
Over the last seven days, [US East] Facepunch Primitive 1 ranks #665 for player hours, placing it in the top 3% of all ranked servers.
Tags
What is the meaning of the tags on [US East] Facepunch Primitive 1?
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; gmprimitive (Game mode): No guns in primitive mode; combat is with bows, spears and melee; mp400 (Max players): 400 player slots; 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): Game build: 167781; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is standard for the game; $r? (Region code): There is no region code; ^m (Monthly): Facepunch's force wipe marks its monthly wipe; ^t (Tutorial on): The Facepunch tutorial is enabled for new players; sc2 (Custom tag): The owner or a plugin added this tag; it is not a standard Rust tag from the tags [US East] Facepunch Primitive 1 publishes. The top of this page also shows its current players, queue, and world creation time, all from the tags.
Who operates [US East] Facepunch Primitive 1?
[US East] Facepunch Primitive 1 and 124 other servers we track publish the same playrust.com hostname, so they are most likely run by the same operator.
Where does [US East] Facepunch Primitive 1 appear in When Is Rust Force Wipe lists and filters?
On When Is Rust Force Wipe, [US East] Facepunch Primitive 1 is placed in these lists: Official Rust servers, Best primitive Rust servers, Rust tutorial servers and Rust servers in North America. Its filters on the server list are Region: North America; Type: No plugins at all; Game mode: Primitive; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Tutorial on ^t; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks; Players now: At least 10; Average players: 25+ on average; Boxes: Official only.
Operator and location
What is the location of [US East] Facepunch Primitive 1?
No region tag is published by [US East] Facepunch Primitive 1, but its name points to North America. When Is Rust Force Wipe displays the location a server reports, not the physical location of the machine. Connect using 40.160.19.53:28015.
Is the performance on [US East] Facepunch Primitive 1 good?
The average server fps over the last 48 hours was 232, with a low of 219. The world held as many as 149,699 entities: buildings, deployables and all other objects. 6,069 MB was the highest memory use. When fps is low and entities climb, players feel it as lag.
How reliable is [US East] Facepunch Primitive 1, and is it currently online?
Right now [US East] Facepunch Primitive 1 is up. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 8 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw it up 168 of 168 hours, 100% of the time. It was first seen by When Is Rust Force Wipe on 13 September 2026.
What Rust version is [US East] Facepunch Primitive 1 on?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 on Windows is what [US East] Facepunch Primitive 1 runs. Steam updates your game, but you need the same protocol to join.
Wipe days
On what schedule does [US East] Facepunch Primitive 1 wipe?
Once a month, [US East] Facepunch Primitive 1 wipes with the force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC; that is its next wipe. The world in play now was built 12 days 3 hours ago. Its tags list a monthly wipe schedule.
What happens on wipe day for [US East] Facepunch Primitive 1?
An average of 76 players turned out at the busiest point of its recent wipes. The peak of the crowd on the latest wipe came 5 hours after the wipe.
Connect
What steps are needed to join [US East] Facepunch Primitive 1?
Enter client.connect 40.160.19.53:28015 after pressing F1 to open the console in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished as mp400,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,^t,gmprimitive,cs167781,sc2,ts8
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Game
gmprimitive
mp400
ts8
v2634
cs167781
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Gameplay
^t
Other
sc2
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.