[US East] Facepunch 3
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
40.160.19.17:28015
THANK YOU · COME AGAIN NEXT WIPE
The map
![Map of [US East] Facepunch 3](https://files.facepunch.com/rust/map-images/806df4eca96a7b0a6b2756727eec5ef280207fffd494ba1617b29616eea619c2/proceduralmap.4500.1790876398929.289_806df4eca96a7b0a6b2756727eec5ef2.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
- 40.160.19.17:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 400
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- monthly
- Last wipe
- 1 Oct 2026, 17:40 UTC
- Hostname
- new__useast3.playrust.com
- First seen
- 13 Sep 2026
- Operator · playrust.com
- [US East] Facepunch Premium 1 366/400 · [US East] Facepunch Premium 2 168/400 · [US] Facepunch Softcore 1 147/300 · [US East] Facepunch 1 145/400 · [US] Facepunch Softcore 2 105/300 · [EU] Facepunch Premium 1 101/350 · [CAN] Facepunch Premium 1 90/350 · [EA] Facepunch 2 73/300
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 settings does [US East] Facepunch 3 use?
The name of [US East] Facepunch 3 does not include a gather rate. It uses the default group size of 8 players. It plays as survival, the default game of gathering, building and raiding. PvP and raiding are enabled. You find it in the Official tab in-game. Vanilla is its own label: vanilla Rust: rates, kits and rules all as Facepunch ships them. The server has VAC on.
What's the map on [US East] Facepunch 3?
[US East] Facepunch 3 uses a procedural map of 4,500 that the game generates with seed 436502457. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed give an identical map.
Server tags
How should you read the tags on [US East] Facepunch 3?
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; mp400 (Max players): Room for 400; ts8 (Group limit): The game default: 8 to a team; v2634 (Protocol): Get on protocol 2634 or the door stays shut; cs167058 (Build): Build 167058; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which the game uses as standard; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): Wipes land once a month, alongside the force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Vanilla Rust: rates, kits and rules all as Facepunch ships them; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial is available for newcomers; sc3 (Custom tag): This is no standard Rust tag; a plugin or the owner put it there are the tags [US East] Facepunch 3 puts out, and the game's server browser takes them in. The tags carry its current players, its queue and its world's creation time, and this page puts them up top.
Where does [US East] Facepunch 3 appear in Boongarust lists?
The Boongarust lists that take [US East] Facepunch 3 are: Tutorial-on Rust servers, Official Rust servers, busiest first, North America Rust servers and Vanilla Rust servers. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Region: North America; 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 week; Players now: At least 10; Average players: 10+ on average; Boxes: Official only.
Who operates [US East] Facepunch 3?
The same operator probably runs [US East] Facepunch 3 and 124 other servers we track, since they all publish a playrust.com hostname.
Server details
Performance of [US East] Facepunch 3: does it hold up?
The 48-hour average was 228 server fps; the floor was 188. Buildings, deployables and everything else added up to as many as 157,282 entities. Memory use peaked at 6,573 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and entities pile up.
What's the location of [US East] Facepunch 3?
No region tag comes from [US East] Facepunch 3, but the name it uses points to North America. What you see on Boongarust is where a server says it is, not where the machine is found to stand. Connect at 40.160.19.17:28015.
How often is [US East] Facepunch 3 online?
Online: [US East] Facepunch 3, at this moment. The uptime it reports suggests a restart around 14 hours ago. Uptime over the last 7 full days came to 100%, 168 hours from 168. It entered Boongarust's records on 13 September 2026.
Which Rust build does [US East] Facepunch 3 have?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167058 on Windows: that is [US East] Facepunch 3. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe times
How does [US East] Facepunch 3 handle wipe day?
Across recent wipes, the average peak was 38 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 34 hours in.
When does [US East] Facepunch 3 wipe?
The force wipe is the only wipe for [US East] Facepunch 3, once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes the force wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. Its world is 6 days 8 hours old. Its tags say it wipes monthly.
Population
What's [US East] Facepunch 3's rank among Rust servers?
Ranked #723 on seven-day player hours, [US East] Facepunch 3 is in the top 3% overall.
What's the player count on [US East] Facepunch 3?
[US East] Facepunch 3 is showing 30 players on 400 slots right now. It averaged 24 players over the last seven days and peaked at 44. Over the last 48 hours, the busiest hour was 01:00 UTC, averaging 37 players.
How to join
How can you get into [US East] Facepunch 3?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 40.160.19.17:28015. 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 mp400,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs167058,sc3,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.