Facepunch Staging Creators
Join the serverOVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 35%.
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
198.244.177.77:28023
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 3164 places on last week. Top 35% 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. The Staging Branch in Rust is a separate version of Rust where new updates and features are tested before being published to the main game. To join, launch 'Rust - Staging Branch' from your Steam library. See more at https://rust.facepunch.com/staging
Spec sheet
- Address
- 198.244.177.77:28023
- Region
- –
- Max players
- –
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 24 Sep 2026, 10:55 UTC
- Hostname
- fscp.playrust.com
- First seen
- 13 Sep 2026
- Operator · playrust.com
- [EA] Softcore 1 177/350 · [EA] Facepunch 2 174/300 · [EU East] Facepunch 4 171/350 · [EU East] Facepunch 5 159/350 · [EU] Facepunch Premium 1 144/350 · [EU] Facepunch 15 127/300 · [EU] Facepunch 1 118/400 · [EU East] Facepunch 2 113/400
Other contenders
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Map and rules
What are Facepunch Staging Creators's rules and configuration?
No gather rate appears in the name of Facepunch Staging Creators. The group limit is 8 players, as the game defaults. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. PvP and raiding are enabled. You find it in the Official tab in-game. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What's the map on Facepunch Staging Creators?
Facepunch Staging Creators uses a procedural map of 4,500 that the game generates with seed 73737312. The map is identical for the same size and seed, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
Tags
How should you read the tags on Facepunch Staging Creators?
The game's server browser reads the tags Facepunch Staging Creators publishes: 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; mp0 (Max players): Slot count: 0; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size is 8; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: match it or you cannot join; cs167391 (Build): Game build is 167391; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which the game uses as standard; $r? (Region code): The region code is missing. The tags carry its current players, its queue and its world's creation time, and this page puts them up top.
What Boongarust lists feature Facepunch Staging Creators?
On these Boongarust lists you will find Facepunch Staging Creators: 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; Boxes: Official only.
Who's behind Facepunch Staging Creators?
The same operator probably runs Facepunch Staging Creators and 124 other servers we track, since they all publish a playrust.com hostname.
Server details
Performance of Facepunch Staging Creators: does it hold up?
The 48-hour average was 111 server fps; the floor was 81. Buildings, deployables and everything else added up to as many as 118,848 entities. Memory use peaked at 4,624 MB. What players call lag is low fps plus a rising entity count.
What's the physical location of Facepunch Staging Creators?
No region is published by Facepunch Staging Creators. Boongarust takes the server at its word on location and does not check where the machine sits. You can reach it at 198.244.177.77:28023.
What's the uptime like on Facepunch Staging Creators?
Right now Facepunch Staging Creators is live. The uptime it reports suggests a restart around 25 hours ago. Last 7 full days: 100% uptime, with 168 hours up out of 168. 13 September 2026 is when Boongarust first spotted it.
Which Rust build does Facepunch Staging Creators have?
On Windows, Facepunch Staging Creators runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167391. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe info
Wipe day at Facepunch Staging Creators: what's it like?
Recent wipes peaked at 2 players on average. 28 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked, with 1 in the queue behind them.
How often does Facepunch Staging Creators wipe?
With so few of Facepunch Staging Creators's wipes on record, its rhythm is unclear. The monthly force wipe hits every Rust server, and the next one lands on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Its world is 14 days 23 hours old.
Population
What's Facepunch Staging Creators's rank among Rust servers?
Ranked #7,937 on seven-day player hours, Facepunch Staging Creators is in the top 35% overall.
What's the player count on Facepunch Staging Creators?
0 players are on Facepunch Staging Creators at the moment. It averaged 0 players over the last seven days and peaked at 2. It was busiest at 11:00 UTC in the last 48 hours, with 1 players on average.
How to join
How can you get into Facepunch Staging Creators?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 198.244.177.77:28023. 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 mp0,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167391,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.