[EU] Facepunch 9
Join the serverOVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 2%.
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
79.137.98.10:28020
THANK YOU · COME AGAIN NEXT WIPE
The map
![Map of [EU] Facepunch 9](https://files.facepunch.com/rust/map-images/d650f325368d9aca5c29da7b5f42db0ad896c122419978f853afbfb50ed7e712/proceduralmap.4500.1790876487061.289_d650f325368d9aca5c29da7b5f42db0a.jpg)
Under the hood
Asked of the server directly. Low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
The ranking
Up 405 places on last week. Top 2% 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
- 79.137.98.10:28020
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 350
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- monthly
- Last wipe
- 1 Oct 2026, 17:41 UTC
- Hostname
- neweu9.playrust.com
- First seen
- 13 Sep 2026
- Operator · playrust.com
- [EU East] Facepunch 5 298/350 · [EU] Facepunch Premium 1 288/350 · [EU East] Facepunch 4 222/350 · [EU] Facepunch 15 214/300 · [EU] Facepunch 1 208/400 · [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1 205/400 · [EU East] Facepunch 2 187/400 · [US East] Facepunch Premium 1 187/400
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 [EU] Facepunch 9 use?
There is no gather rate in the name of [EU] Facepunch 9. The group limit is 8 players, as the game defaults. survival is the game mode, the default game of gathering, building and raiding. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. You find it in the Official tab in-game. It claims vanilla status: vanilla Rust: rates, kits and rules all as Facepunch ships them. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What's the map on [EU] Facepunch 9?
The map on [EU] Facepunch 9 is procedural, size 4,500, generated with seed 1928463649 by the game. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed give an identical map.
Server tags
What do [EU] Facepunch 9's tags signify?
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): The game default: 8 to a team; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: match it or you cannot join; cs167231 (Build): Running build 167231; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $r? (Region code): No region code on record; ^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): Beginners can begin with Facepunch's tutorial; sc2 (Custom tag): A plugin or the owner set this one. It is not a standard Rust tag are the tags [EU] Facepunch 9 puts out, and the game's server browser takes them in. 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 9 appear in Boongarust lists?
On these Boongarust lists you will find [EU] Facepunch 9: 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 50; Average players: 25+ on average; Boxes: Official only.
Who's behind [EU] Facepunch 9?
124 other servers we track share the playrust.com hostname [EU] Facepunch 9 publishes, so the same operator most likely runs them all.
Server details
How smooth is [EU] Facepunch 9?
The 48-hour average was 192 server fps; the floor was 129. At its peak, it held 168,723 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 6,913 MB. Lag, to players, means low fps and a growing entity count.
What's the location of [EU] Facepunch 9?
No region tag comes from [EU] Facepunch 9, but the name it uses points to Europe. Boongarust takes the server at its word on location and does not check where the machine sits. You can reach it at 79.137.98.10:28020.
How reliable is [EU] Facepunch 9?
Right now [EU] Facepunch 9 is live. Its reported uptime points to a restart roughly 8 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 9 have?
On Windows, [EU] Facepunch 9 runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167231. Steam keeps your game updated; you need the same protocol to connect.
Wipe times
How does [EU] Facepunch 9 handle wipe day?
71 players was the average peak on recent wipes. Peak crowd on the latest wipe came 47 hours after it.
When does [EU] Facepunch 9 wipe?
The force wipe is the only wipe for [EU] Facepunch 9, once a month. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is next, and every Rust server wipes with it. 7 days 2 hours ago this server built its current world. Its tags say it wipes monthly.
Population
Where does [EU] Facepunch 9 sit in the rankings?
Player hours over seven days put [EU] Facepunch 9 at #566, in the top 2% of all ranked servers.
How many players are on [EU] Facepunch 9?
61 players are on [EU] Facepunch 9 at the moment, out of 350 slots. The average over the last seven days was 38 players, with a peak of 118. The busiest time in the last 48 hours was 17:00 UTC, with an average of 60 players.
Join the server
How do you connect to [EU] Facepunch 9?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 79.137.98.10:28020. 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.