[EU] Facepunch Staging
Join the serverOVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 4%.
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
79.137.98.9:28015
THANK YOU · COME AGAIN NEXT WIPE
The map
![Map of [EU] Facepunch Staging](https://files.facepunch.com/rust/map-images/a381896b48bc09232c7b3597db688bec73dc8761e36c6ef668ffbe8964ef6f3b/proceduralmap.4300.1790250286568.289_a381896b48bc09232c7b3597db688bec.jpg)
Under the hood
Asked of the server directly. Low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
The ranking
Down 487 places on last week. Top 4% 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
- 79.137.98.9:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 350
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- monthly
- Last wipe
- 24 Sep 2026, 11:45 UTC
- Hostname
- eu__staging.playrust.com
- First seen
- 13 Sep 2026
- Operator · playrust.com
- [EA] Softcore 1 207/350 · [EA] Facepunch 2 184/300 · [EU East] Facepunch 5 177/350 · [EU East] Facepunch 4 143/350 · [EU] Facepunch Premium 1 132/350 · [EU] Facepunch 15 124/300 · [EU] Facepunch 16 100/300 · [EU East] Facepunch 2 96/400
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 are [EU] Facepunch Staging's rules and configuration?
There is no gather rate in the name of [EU] Facepunch Staging. It uses the default group size of 8 players. It plays as survival, gather, build and raid in the standard game. PvP and raiding are enabled. 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 is on: Valve's anti-cheat is running.
What's the map on [EU] Facepunch Staging?
The map on [EU] Facepunch Staging is procedural, size 4,300, generated with seed 1641015675 by the game. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed give an identical map.
Server tags
What do [EU] Facepunch Staging'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): Teams cap at 8, as Facepunch ships it; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version must equal protocol 2634 to get in; cs167234 (Build): Running build 167234; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which the game uses as standard; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): Facepunch's force wipe brings the monthly reset; ^v (Vanilla): Vanilla Rust: rates, kits and rules all as Facepunch ships them; ^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 are the tags [EU] Facepunch Staging 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.
Which Boongarust filters show [EU] Facepunch Staging?
On these Boongarust lists you will find [EU] Facepunch Staging: 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; Average players: 10+ on average; Boxes: Official only.
Who's behind [EU] Facepunch Staging?
The same operator probably runs [EU] Facepunch Staging and 124 other servers we track, since they all publish a playrust.com hostname.
Server details
Is [EU] Facepunch Staging laggy?
The 48-hour average was 166 server fps; the floor was 150. The entity count reached 126,687: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. At its highest, memory consumption was 5,424 MB. Lag, to players, means low fps and a growing entity count.
Where can you find [EU] Facepunch Staging?
The name [EU] Facepunch Staging 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. Connect at 79.137.98.9:28015.
How reliable is [EU] Facepunch Staging?
Online: [EU] Facepunch Staging, at this moment. A restart happened about 54 minutes ago, based on the uptime figure. Uptime over the last 7 full days came to 100%, 168 hours from 168. 13 September 2026 is when Boongarust first spotted it.
Which Rust build does [EU] Facepunch Staging have?
On Windows, [EU] Facepunch Staging runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167234. You must match the protocol to join; Steam updates it automatically.
Wipe info
How does [EU] Facepunch Staging handle wipe day?
Recent wipes peaked at 54 players on average. 33 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak. The crowd stayed above half the peak until the next wipe in 0% of recent wipes. The fall below half came by day 8 when it did not hold.
How often does [EU] Facepunch Staging wipe?
Once a month: [EU] Facepunch Staging 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. 13 days 23 hours ago this server built its current world. Its tags say it wipes monthly.
Population
What's [EU] Facepunch Staging's rank among Rust servers?
Ranked #1,003 on seven-day player hours, [EU] Facepunch Staging is in the top 4% overall.
Is [EU] Facepunch Staging busy?
Right now, 5 players are on [EU] Facepunch Staging, which has 350 slots. The average over the last seven days was 13 players, with a peak of 170. It was busiest at 18:00 UTC in the last 48 hours, with 22 players on average.
Join the server
What's the process to join [EU] Facepunch Staging?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 79.137.98.9:28015. 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,cs167234,sc2,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.