[EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small
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
79.137.98.21:28017
THANK YOU · COME AGAIN NEXT WIPE
The map
![Map of [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small](https://files.facepunch.com/rust/map-images/43a7606c11e29c9f8ae076c0763012a5cc320bfdbd44bf299211a2ac0a6abbaa/proceduralmap.3750.1790250392057.289_43a7606c11e29c9f8ae076c0763012a5.jpg)
Under the hood
Asked of the server directly. Low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
The ranking
Up 110 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. 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
- 79.137.98.21:28017
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 250
- Group limit
- quad
- Wipe schedule
- monthly
- Last wipe
- 24 Sep 2026, 11:47 UTC
- Hostname
- eustagingsoftcoresmall.playrust.com
- First seen
- 13 Sep 2026
- Operator · playrust.com
- [EA] Facepunch 2 165/300 · [EA] Softcore 1 135/350 · [EU] Facepunch Premium 1 120/350 · [EU East] Facepunch 4 116/350 · [EU East] Facepunch 5 115/350 · [US East] Facepunch Premium 1 114/400 · [EU] Facepunch 15 110/300 · [EU East] Facepunch 2 82/400
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 are [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small's rules and configuration?
There is no gather rate in the name of [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small. The group cap is 4 players (quad). softcore is the game mode, Facepunch's less punishing mode, keeping some of your loot. You can fight and raid other players. You find it in the Official tab in-game. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What's the map on [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?
A procedural map of 3,750 with seed 714955012 is in use on [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small, made by the game. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed give an identical map.
Server tags
How should you read the tags on [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?
These tags come from [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore 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; gmsoftcore (Game mode): Softcore rules, which are gentler; mp250 (Max players): Room for 250; ts4 (Group limit): 4 is the team limit; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version must equal protocol 2634 to get in; cs167234 (Build): Build 167234; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which the game uses as standard; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): The calendar is monthly: one wipe with the force wipe; ^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 top of this page also shows its current players, its queue and when its world was made, all taken from the tags.
Where does [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small appear in Boongarust lists?
These Boongarust lists are a fit for [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small: 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: Softcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Tutorial on ^t; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Players now: At least 10; Average players: 25+ on average; Boxes: Official only.
Who's behind [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?
The same operator probably runs [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small and 124 other servers we track, since they all publish a playrust.com hostname.
Server details
How smooth is [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?
The 48-hour average was 105 server fps; the floor was 54. The entity count reached 149,062: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. At its highest, memory consumption was 4,983 MB. What players call lag is low fps plus a rising entity count.
Where can you find [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?
No region tag comes from [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small, 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. Connect at 79.137.98.21:28017.
How often is [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small online?
Right now [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small is live. Its reported uptime points to a restart roughly 23 hours ago. 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 Softcore Small using?
On Windows, [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167234. Steam keeps your game updated; you need the same protocol to connect.
Wipe times
What happens on wipe day at [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?
Recent wipes peaked at 21 players on average. Peak crowd on the latest wipe came 31 hours after it.
[EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small wipes on what schedule?
[EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small 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. 14 days 20 hours ago this server built its current world. Look at its tags: monthly wipe schedule.
Player counts
What's [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small's rank among Rust servers?
Ranked #680 on seven-day player hours, [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small is in the top 3% overall. For quad servers, #37 is its place.
What's the player count on [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?
Right now, 13 players are on [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small, which has 250 slots. The average over the last seven days was 28 players, with a peak of 65. The busiest time in the last 48 hours was 20:00 UTC, with an average of 54 players.
Join the server
What's the process to join [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 79.137.98.21:28017. 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,^t,gmsoftcore,cs167234,sc2,ts4.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.