[EU] Facepunch 8
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
79.137.98.10:28015
THANK YOU · COME AGAIN NEXT WIPE
The map
![Map of [EU] Facepunch 8](https://files.facepunch.com/rust/map-images/ddd3bdbbdaa3bda3fe21597054d6215b8be6001aa91958bc69f4a85e5cec5310/proceduralmap.4500.1790876536732.289_ddd3bdbbdaa3bda3fe21597054d6215b.jpg)
Under the hood
Asked of the server directly. Low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
The ranking
Up 321 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
- 79.137.98.10:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 350
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- monthly
- Last wipe
- 1 Oct 2026, 17:42 UTC
- Hostname
- neweu8.playrust.com
- First seen
- 13 Sep 2026
- Operator · playrust.com
- [US East] Facepunch Premium 1 321/400 · [US] Facepunch Softcore 1 191/300 · [US East] Facepunch 1 155/400 · [US East] Facepunch Premium 2 136/400 · [US] Facepunch Softcore 2 136/300 · [EU] Facepunch Premium 1 133/350 · [EU East] Facepunch 5 103/350 · [EU] Facepunch 1 101/400
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 [EU] Facepunch 8 use?
No gather rate appears in the name of [EU] Facepunch 8. It uses the default group size of 8 players. It plays as survival, gather, build and raid in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Rust's in-game Official tab includes it. Vanilla is its own label: as Facepunch intended: standard rates, no kits, no extra rules. The server has VAC on.
What's the map on [EU] Facepunch 8?
A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 1376277816 is in use on [EU] Facepunch 8, made by the game. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed give an identical map.
Server tags
What are the tags on [EU] Facepunch 8 for?
These tags come from [EU] Facepunch 8 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): The usual Rust survival setup; mp350 (Max players): Slot count: 350; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size is 8; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: match it or you cannot join; cs167231 (Build): Game build is 167231; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which the game uses as standard; $r? (Region code): The region code is missing; ^m (Monthly): Wipes land once a month, alongside the force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): As Facepunch intended: standard rates, no kits, no extra rules; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial is available for newcomers; sc2 (Custom tag): Owner or plugin made this tag. Rust does not ship it. 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.
Where does [EU] Facepunch 8 appear in Boongarust lists?
These Boongarust lists are a fit for [EU] Facepunch 8: Tutorial-on Rust servers, EU Rust servers, Official Rust servers, busiest first and Vanilla Rust servers. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Region: Europe; 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: 25+ on average; Boxes: Official only.
Who operates [EU] Facepunch 8?
124 other servers we track share the playrust.com hostname [EU] Facepunch 8 publishes, so the same operator most likely runs them all.
Server details
Is [EU] Facepunch 8 laggy?
Server fps held an average of 192 across the last 48 hours, minimum 156. Buildings, deployables and everything else added up to as many as 161,670 entities. It drew as much as 6,579 MB of memory. What players call lag is low fps plus a rising entity count.
Where can you find [EU] Facepunch 8?
The name [EU] Facepunch 8 uses suggests Europe, though it publishes no region tag. Where a server says it is, that is what Boongarust shows. Where the machine actually stands is not looked up. Connect at 79.137.98.10:28015.
How often is [EU] Facepunch 8 online?
Right now [EU] Facepunch 8 is live. The uptime it reports suggests a restart around 13 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 [EU] Facepunch 8 have?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167231 on Windows: that is [EU] Facepunch 8. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe info
What happens on wipe day at [EU] Facepunch 8?
Across recent wipes, the average peak was 63 players. 2 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.
When does [EU] Facepunch 8 wipe?
Once a month: [EU] Facepunch 8 wipes at the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes the force wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. Its world is 7 days 6 hours old. Look at its tags: monthly wipe schedule.
Population
Where does [EU] Facepunch 8 sit in the rankings?
Ranked #670 on seven-day player hours, [EU] Facepunch 8 is in the top 3% overall.
What's the player count on [EU] Facepunch 8?
21 players are on [EU] Facepunch 8 at the moment, out of 350 slots. It averaged 28 players over the last seven days and peaked at 75. Over the last 48 hours, the busiest hour was 18:00 UTC, averaging 52 players.
How to join
What's the process to join [EU] Facepunch 8?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 79.137.98.10:28015. 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 mp350,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs167231,sc2,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.