[EU] Facepunch 5
Join the serverOVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 1%.
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
79.137.98.14:28020
THANK YOU · COME AGAIN NEXT WIPE
The map
![Map of [EU] Facepunch 5](https://files.facepunch.com/rust/map-images/eb865439f81b2ef4183a7caa82c879dd9df7c385496f3fe69aa6b8e8db3798da/proceduralmap.4500.1790876559044.289_eb865439f81b2ef4183a7caa82c879dd.jpg)
Under the hood
Asked of the server directly. Low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
The ranking
Up 365 places on last week. Top 1% 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
- 79.137.98.14:28020
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 350
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- monthly
- Last wipe
- 1 Oct 2026, 17:43 UTC
- Hostname
- new__eu5.playrust.com
- First seen
- 13 Sep 2026
- Operator · playrust.com
- [EA] Facepunch 2 229/300 · [EU East] Facepunch 4 227/350 · [EU East] Facepunch 5 220/350 · [EA] Softcore 1 218/350 · [EU] Facepunch 15 208/300 · [EU] Facepunch Premium 1 208/350 · [EU] Facepunch 1 162/400 · [EU East] Facepunch 2 160/400
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 5 use?
No gather rate appears in the name of [EU] Facepunch 5. The group limit is 8 players, as the game defaults. It plays as survival, the default game of gathering, building and raiding. PvP and raiding are enabled. Rust's in-game Official tab includes it. It claims vanilla status: as Facepunch intended: standard rates, no kits, no extra rules. The server has VAC on.
What's the map on [EU] Facepunch 5?
A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 807405672 is in use on [EU] Facepunch 5, made by the game. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed give an identical map.
Tags
What are the tags on [EU] Facepunch 5 for?
These tags come from [EU] Facepunch 5 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): Room for 350; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size is 8; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version must equal protocol 2634 to get in; cs167398 (Build): Running build 167398; 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): Facepunch's tutorial is available for newcomers; sc2 (Custom tag): This is no standard Rust tag; a plugin or the owner put it there. The tags carry its current players, its queue and its world's creation time, and this page puts them up top.
Which Boongarust filters show [EU] Facepunch 5?
On these Boongarust lists you will find [EU] Facepunch 5: Tutorial-on Rust servers, EU Rust servers, Official Rust servers, busiest first and Vanilla Rust servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: 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: 50+ on average; Boxes: Official only.
Who operates [EU] Facepunch 5?
124 other servers we track share the playrust.com hostname [EU] Facepunch 5 publishes, so the same operator most likely runs them all.
Server details
Performance of [EU] Facepunch 5: does it hold up?
The 48-hour average was 157 server fps; the floor was 88. Buildings, deployables and everything else added up to as many as 205,707 entities. At its highest, memory consumption was 8,019 MB. What players call lag is low fps plus a rising entity count.
Where can you find [EU] Facepunch 5?
No region tag comes from [EU] Facepunch 5, but the name it uses points to Europe. 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 79.137.98.14:28020.
How reliable is [EU] Facepunch 5?
[EU] Facepunch 5 is up as you read this. The uptime it reports suggests a restart around 1 hours ago. Last 7 full days: 100% uptime, with 168 hours up out of 168. It entered Boongarust's records on 13 September 2026.
Which Rust build does [EU] Facepunch 5 have?
On Windows, [EU] Facepunch 5 runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398. You must match the protocol to join; Steam updates it automatically.
Wipe info
How does [EU] Facepunch 5 handle wipe day?
Recent wipes peaked at 191 players on average. Peak crowd on the latest wipe came 26 hours after it.
How often does [EU] Facepunch 5 wipe?
The force wipe is the only wipe for [EU] Facepunch 5, 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 19 hours ago this server built its current world. Its tags say it wipes monthly.
Population
Where does [EU] Facepunch 5 sit in the rankings?
In the top 1% of all ranked servers, [EU] Facepunch 5 is #252 on player hours over the last seven days.
Is [EU] Facepunch 5 busy?
[EU] Facepunch 5 is showing 55 players on 350 slots right now. It averaged 81 players over the last seven days and peaked at 233. It was busiest at 17:00 UTC in the last 48 hours, with 123 players on average.
Join the server
How do you connect to [EU] Facepunch 5?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 79.137.98.14:28020. 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,cs167398,sc2,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.