[AE] Facepunch 1
Join the serverOVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 3%.
Power level
Players on it, from the Steam server list.
Every five minutes.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Tale of the tape
Against its closest rival: the most similar server we track.
Wipe receipt
185.179.203.165:28015
THANK YOU · COME AGAIN NEXT WIPE
The map
![Map of [AE] Facepunch 1](https://files.facepunch.com/rust/map-images/ae856c11ee2df7a0940a7a5af96ccb7f6de366374edf33188a085b44fd771b3d/proceduralmap.4500.1790876559254.289_ae856c11ee2df7a0940a7a5af96ccb7f.jpg)
Under the hood
Asked of the server directly. Low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
The ranking
Up 99 places on last week. Top 3% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
In its own words
This is an official server owned and operated by Facepunch. People are free to speak whatever language they like. Don't be surprised if you get banned for being abusive.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 185.179.203.165:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 350
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- monthly
- Last wipe
- 1 Oct 2026, 17:43 UTC
- Hostname
- ae1.playrust.com
- First seen
- 13 Sep 2026
- Operator · playrust.com
- [US East] Facepunch Premium 1 278/400 · [EU] Facepunch Premium 1 173/350 · [US] Facepunch Softcore 1 162/300 · [EU East] Facepunch 5 145/350 · [US East] Facepunch Premium 2 139/400 · [US East] Facepunch 1 131/400 · [US] Facepunch Softcore 2 119/300 · [EU] Facepunch 1 110/400
Other contenders
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Server rules
What are [AE] Facepunch 1's rules and configuration?
The name of [AE] Facepunch 1 does not include a gather rate. Up to 8 players per group, the standard default. It plays as survival, gather, build and raid in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. You find it in the Official tab in-game. It claims vanilla status: vanilla Rust: rates, kits and rules all as Facepunch ships them. The server has VAC on.
What's the map on [AE] Facepunch 1?
The map on [AE] Facepunch 1 is procedural, size 4,500, generated with seed 1996265322 by the game. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, as the same size and seed make the same map.
Server tags
How should you read the tags on [AE] Facepunch 1?
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 usual Rust survival setup; mp350 (Max players): Slot count: 350; ts8 (Group limit): The game default: 8 to a team; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: match it or you cannot join; cs167231 (Build): Running build 167231; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's usual choice; $r? (Region code): The region code is missing; ^m (Monthly): Facepunch's force wipe brings the monthly reset; ^v (Vanilla): Vanilla Rust: rates, kits and rules all as Facepunch ships them; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial is available for newcomers; sc2 (Custom tag): A plugin or the owner set this one. It is not a standard Rust tag are the tags [AE] Facepunch 1 puts out, and the game's server browser takes them in. From the tags, this page also pulls its live player count, its queue and its world's creation time, and puts them at the top.
Which Boongarust filters show [AE] Facepunch 1?
These Boongarust lists are a fit for [AE] Facepunch 1: Tutorial-on Rust servers, Official Rust servers, busiest first and Vanilla Rust servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: 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; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks; Players now: At least 10; Average players: 10+ on average; Boxes: Official only.
Who's in charge of [AE] Facepunch 1?
The same operator probably runs [AE] Facepunch 1 and 124 other servers we track, since they all publish a playrust.com hostname.
Server details
How smooth is [AE] Facepunch 1?
The 48-hour average was 122 server fps; the floor was 98. The entity count reached 144,927: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. At its highest, memory consumption was 5,790 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and entities pile up.
Where can you find [AE] Facepunch 1?
No region is published by [AE] Facepunch 1. Where a server says it is, that is what Boongarust shows. Where the machine actually stands is not looked up. Connect at 185.179.203.165:28015.
How reliable is [AE] Facepunch 1?
Online: [AE] Facepunch 1, at this moment. A restart happened about 11 hours ago, based on the uptime figure. Last 7 full days: 100% uptime, with 168 hours up out of 168. 13 September 2026 is when Boongarust first spotted it.
What Rust version is [AE] Facepunch 1 using?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167231 on Windows: that is [AE] Facepunch 1. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe info
What happens on wipe day at [AE] Facepunch 1?
38 players was the average peak on recent wipes. 27 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.
How often does [AE] Facepunch 1 wipe?
The force wipe is the only wipe for [AE] Facepunch 1, once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes the force wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 7 days 5 hours ago this server built its current world. Look at its tags: monthly wipe schedule.
Population
What's [AE] Facepunch 1's rank among Rust servers?
Player hours over seven days put [AE] Facepunch 1 at #739, in the top 3% of all ranked servers.
How many players are on [AE] Facepunch 1?
[AE] Facepunch 1 is showing 17 players on 350 slots right now. The average over the last seven days was 24 players, with a peak of 54. The busiest time in the last 48 hours was 18:00 UTC, with an average of 42 players.
Join the server
What's the process to join [AE] Facepunch 1?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 185.179.203.165:28015. Or click Launch Rust here, which uses Steam to open the game and join.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp350,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs167231,sc2,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.