[EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small
Join the serverOVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 11%.
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
79.137.98.20:28019
THANK YOU · COME AGAIN NEXT WIPE
The map
Under the hood
Asked of the server directly. Low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
The ranking
Up 486 places on last week. Top 11% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
In its own words
This is an official server owned and operated by Facepunch. The Staging Branch in Rust is a separate version of Rust where new updates and features are tested before being published to the main game. To join, launch 'Rust - Staging Branch' from your Steam library. See more at https://rust.facepunch.com/staging
Spec sheet
- Address
- 79.137.98.20:28019
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 150
- Group limit
- teams off
- Wipe schedule
- monthly
- Last wipe
- 24 Sep 2026, 11:42 UTC
- Hostname
- staginghardcoresmall.playrust.com
- First seen
- 13 Sep 2026
- Operator · playrust.com
- [EU East] Facepunch 5 337/350 · [EU East] Facepunch 4 279/350 · [EU] Facepunch 15 261/300 · [EU] Facepunch Premium 1 231/350 · [EA] Facepunch 2 203/300 · [EU] Facepunch 1 200/400 · [EU East] Facepunch 2 200/400 · [EA] Softcore 1 181/350
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 Staging Hardcore Small use?
The name of [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small does not include a gather rate. No group limit is published. hardcore is the game mode, Facepunch's most difficult mode. You can fight and raid other players. You find it in the Official tab in-game. The server has VAC on.
What's the map on [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small?
A procedural map of 3,750 is in use on [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small, made by the game.
Tags
What are the tags on [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small for?
These tags come from [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small 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; gmhardcore (Game mode): Hardcore rules, which are harsher; mp150 (Max players): Slot count: 150; ts0 (Group limit): The team system is off; v2635 (Protocol): Your game version must equal protocol 2635 to get in; cs167443 (Build): Build 167443; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's usual choice; $r? (Region code): No region code on record; ^m (Monthly): Wipes land once a month, alongside the force wipe; ^t (Tutorial on): The tutorial from Facepunch is on offer for new players; sc2 (Custom tag): A plugin or the owner set this one. It is not a standard Rust tag. The tags carry its current players, its queue and its world's creation time, and this page puts them up top.
Where does [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small appear in Boongarust lists?
The Boongarust lists that take [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small are: Tutorial-on Rust servers, EU Rust servers and Official Rust servers, busiest first. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Region: Europe; Type: No plugins at all; Game mode: Hardcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Tutorial on ^t; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Boxes: Official only.
Who operates [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small?
The same operator probably runs [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small and 124 other servers we track, since they all publish a playrust.com hostname.
Server info
Performance of [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small: does it hold up?
Average server fps over the last 48 hours was 225, with a low of 189. The entity count reached 84,858: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Memory use peaked at 3,668 MB. Lag, to players, means low fps and a growing entity count.
Where can you find [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small?
The name [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small uses suggests Europe, though it publishes no region tag. 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 79.137.98.20:28019.
How often is [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small online?
[EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small is up as you read this. A restart happened about 24 minutes ago, based on the uptime figure. Uptime over the last 7 full days came to 100%, 168 hours from 168. It entered Boongarust's records on 13 September 2026.
What Rust version is [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small using?
On Windows, [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 167443. Steam keeps your game updated; you need the same protocol to connect.
Wipe times
What happens on wipe day at [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small?
Across recent wipes, the average peak was 6 players. Peak crowd on the latest wipe came 24 hours after it. In 100% of recent wipes, half the peak was the floor until the next wipe.
How often does [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small wipe?
Once a month: [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small wipes at the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is next, and every Rust server wipes with it. The world you are on was made 15 days 4 hours. Its tags say it wipes monthly.
Player counts
What's [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small's rank among Rust servers?
Player hours over seven days put [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small at #2,478, in the top 11% of all ranked servers.
Is [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small busy?
[EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small is showing 0 players on 150 slots right now. The average over the last seven days was 2 players, with a peak of 7. Over the last 48 hours, the busiest hour was 11:00 UTC, averaging 6 players.
How to join
How do you connect to [EU] Facepunch Staging Hardcore Small?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 79.137.98.20:28019. 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 mp150,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^t,gmhardcore,cs167443,sc2,ts0.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.