Facepunch Release
Join the serverOVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 37%.
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
198.244.177.77:28017
THANK YOU · COME AGAIN NEXT WIPE
The map
Under the hood
Asked of the server directly. Low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
The ranking
Down 2988 places on last week. Top 37% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
In its own words
This is an official development test server owned and operated by Facepunch. Testing may interrupt gameplay and progress could be lost at any time. People are free to speak whatever language they like. Don't be surprised if you get banned for being abusive.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 198.244.177.77:28017
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 500
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 29 Sep 2026, 11:35 UTC
- Hostname
- fprelease.playrust.com
- First seen
- 13 Sep 2026
- Operator · playrust.com
- [EA] Facepunch 2 170/300 · [EA] Softcore 1 132/350 · [EU East] Facepunch 4 117/350 · [US East] Facepunch Premium 1 116/400 · [EU] Facepunch Premium 1 116/350 · [EU East] Facepunch 5 116/350 · [EU] Facepunch 15 110/300 · [EU East] Facepunch 2 80/400
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 settings does Facepunch Release use?
The name of Facepunch Release does not include a gather rate. Up to 8 players per group, the standard default. It plays as survival, the default game of gathering, building and raiding. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The Official tab in-game lists it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What's the map on Facepunch Release?
The map on Facepunch Release is procedural, size 4,500, generated with seed 6974352 by the game. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, as the same size and seed make the same map.
Tags
What are the tags on Facepunch Release for?
These tags come from Facepunch Release and go straight into the game's server browser: 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 Rust normally plays; mp500 (Max players): 500 players fit in; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size is 8; v2634 (Protocol): Get on protocol 2634 or the door stays shut; cs167231 (Build): Running build 167231; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which the game uses as standard; $r? (Region code): No region code on record. The tags carry its current players, its queue and its world's creation time, and this page puts them up top.
Which Boongarust filters show Facepunch Release?
The Boongarust lists that take Facepunch Release are: Official Rust servers, busiest first. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Type: No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks; Boxes: Official only.
Who operates Facepunch Release?
The same operator probably runs Facepunch Release and 124 other servers we track, since they all publish a playrust.com hostname.
Server info
Performance of Facepunch Release: does it hold up?
The 48-hour average was 99 server fps; the floor was 78. Buildings, deployables and everything else added up to as many as 115,731 entities. It drew as much as 4,462 MB of memory. Players feel lag when fps drops and entities pile up.
What's the location of Facepunch Release?
No region is published by Facepunch Release. What you see on Boongarust is where a server says it is, not where the machine is found to stand. Connect at 198.244.177.77:28017.
How often is Facepunch Release online?
Online: Facepunch Release, at this moment. A restart happened about 22 hours ago, based on the uptime figure. Uptime over the last 7 full days came to 100%, 168 hours from 168. The first record Boongarust has is 13 September 2026.
What Rust version is Facepunch Release using?
On Windows, Facepunch Release runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167231. Steam keeps your game updated; you need the same protocol to connect.
Wipe times
Facepunch Release wipes on what schedule?
With so few of Facepunch Release's wipes on record, its rhythm is unclear. All Rust servers wipe at the force wipe, monthly. The next is Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Its world is 9 days 20 hours old.
Population
Ranking wise, where does Facepunch Release place?
In the top 37% of all ranked servers, Facepunch Release is #8,442 on player hours over the last seven days.
How many players are on Facepunch Release?
0 players are on Facepunch Release at the moment, out of 500 slots. It averaged 0 players over the last seven days and peaked at 4. Over the last 48 hours, the busiest hour was 09:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.
How to join
How can you get into Facepunch Release?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 198.244.177.77:28017. You can also use Launch Rust on this page to open Rust via Steam and connect.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp500,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167231,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.