[AU] Facepunch 2
Join the serverOVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 4%.
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
51.161.199.230:28015
THANK YOU · COME AGAIN NEXT WIPE
The map
![Map of [AU] Facepunch 2](https://files.facepunch.com/rust/map-images/899516fcef5689b10e70fab37c328d7b07849838ae0748811dbd2fe22f9166f4/proceduralmap.4500.1790876474149.289_899516fcef5689b10e70fab37c328d7b.jpg)
Under the hood
Asked of the server directly. Low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
The ranking
Up 237 places on last week. Top 4% 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
- 51.161.199.230:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 250
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- monthly
- Last wipe
- 1 Oct 2026, 17:41 UTC
- Hostname
- au__2.playrust.com
- First seen
- 13 Sep 2026
- Operator · playrust.com
- [EA] Facepunch 2 179/300 · [EA] Softcore 1 157/350 · [EU East] Facepunch 5 153/350 · [EU] Facepunch Premium 1 122/350 · [US East] Facepunch Premium 1 121/400 · [EU East] Facepunch 4 120/350 · [EU] Facepunch 15 98/300 · [EU] Facepunch 1 86/400
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 settings does [AU] Facepunch 2 use?
No gather rate appears in the name of [AU] Facepunch 2. The group limit is 8 players, as the game defaults. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. You find it in the Official tab in-game. The server describes itself as vanilla: as Facepunch intended: standard rates, no kits, no extra rules. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What's the map on [AU] Facepunch 2?
A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 157227784 is in use on [AU] Facepunch 2, made by the game. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed give an identical map.
Server tags
What do [AU] Facepunch 2's tags signify?
The game's server browser reads the tags [AU] Facepunch 2 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): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp250 (Max players): 250 players fit in; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, as Facepunch ships it; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version must equal protocol 2634 to get in; cs167058 (Build): Running build 167058; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's usual choice; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): Facepunch's force wipe brings the monthly reset; ^v (Vanilla): As Facepunch intended: standard rates, no kits, no extra rules; ^t (Tutorial on): The tutorial from Facepunch is on offer for new players; sc2 (Custom tag): Owner or plugin made this tag. Rust does not ship it. The tags carry its current players, its queue and its world's creation time, and this page puts them up top.
Where does [AU] Facepunch 2 appear in Boongarust lists?
On these Boongarust lists you will find [AU] Facepunch 2: Tutorial-on Rust servers, Oceania Rust servers, live, Official Rust servers, busiest first and Vanilla Rust servers. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Region: Oceania; 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 [AU] Facepunch 2?
124 other servers we track share the playrust.com hostname [AU] Facepunch 2 publishes, so the same operator most likely runs them all.
Server info
How smooth is [AU] Facepunch 2?
Average server fps over the last 48 hours was 166, with a low of 131. At its peak, it held 139,401 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 5,840 MB. Lag, to players, means low fps and a growing entity count.
What's the physical location of [AU] Facepunch 2?
No region tag comes from [AU] Facepunch 2, but the name it uses points to Oceania. What you see on Boongarust is where a server says it is, not where the machine is found to stand. You can reach it at 51.161.199.230:28015.
How reliable is [AU] Facepunch 2?
Online: [AU] Facepunch 2, at this moment. Its reported uptime points to a restart roughly 20 hours ago. Uptime over the last 7 full days came to 97%, 163 hours from 168. It entered Boongarust's records on 13 September 2026.
What Rust version is [AU] Facepunch 2 using?
On Windows, [AU] Facepunch 2 runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167058. Steam keeps your game updated; you need the same protocol to connect.
Wipe times
What happens on wipe day at [AU] Facepunch 2?
30 players was the average peak on recent wipes. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 39 hours in.
When does [AU] Facepunch 2 wipe?
[AU] Facepunch 2 wipes with the force wipe, once a month. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is next, and every Rust server wipes with it. 6 days 15 hours ago this server built its current world. Look at its tags: monthly wipe schedule.
Population
Ranking wise, where does [AU] Facepunch 2 place?
Player hours over seven days put [AU] Facepunch 2 at #932, in the top 4% of all ranked servers.
How many players are on [AU] Facepunch 2?
[AU] Facepunch 2 is showing 16 players on 250 slots right now. It averaged 15 players over the last seven days and peaked at 31. The busiest time in the last 48 hours was 08:00 UTC, with an average of 29 players.
Join the server
What's the process to join [AU] Facepunch 2?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 51.161.199.230:28015. 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 mp250,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs167058,sc2,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.