Players now
Live- Full
- 4%
- In queue
- 0
- Peak, 48 hours
- 23
- Peak, 7 days
- 25
4% full
Rank
top 4%
7-day average
peak 25
Last wipe
monthly schedule
Next wipe
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
48 hours: hourly readings. 30 to 90 days: one point a day, with the day's average and lowest fps, most entities and most memory, measured since 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 4% of all ranked servers, and #50 of the quad servers (top 6%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 2h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 7d 2hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 35d 2hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 21, 31 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 29 Oct, 10:16 UTC6h ago | – | – | running | 7 |
| Thu 24 Sep, 11:47 UTC35d ago | 21 | – | – | 15 |
Peak: the most players in the first 48 hours. Crowd: whether every day of the wipe kept at least half that peak, or the day it fell below. A new world less than six hours after a wipe is a restart, not a wipe of its own.
Similar servers
the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes- 1 6/ 100
- 2 4/ 100
- 3 7/ 125
- 4 2/ 100
- 5 0/ 50
- 6 1/ 50
Quick answers
from the figures on this pageAbout
Is [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small online, and how reliable is it?
[EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small is up and taking players now. About 4 hours ago it restarted, judging by the uptime figure it gives. The last 7 full days show 99% uptime, with 167 hours up out of 168. Our records for it start on 13 September 2026, when Rust Dashboard first saw it.
Which version of Rust does [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small run?
Rust network protocol 2636 and build 169627 is running on [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small, which sits on Windows. You need the same protocol as the server to join. Steam updates your game for you.
Where is [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small located?
No region tag comes from [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small, though the name points to Europe. The location shown at Rust Dashboard is the one the server states; no lookup of the machine's position happens. 79.137.98.21:28017 is where it lives.
Does [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small run smoothly?
Server fps averaged 150 over the last 48 hours and never dropped below 107. The world held as many as 117,000 entities, counting buildings, deployables and all the rest. Memory use peaked at 3,865 MB. A low fps figure and an entity count that keeps rising are what lag feels like to players.
Lists
Which Rust Dashboard lists and filters include [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?
These Rust Dashboard lists include [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small: Europe's Rust servers, live, Rust tutorial servers, live and Official Rust servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: Europe; Type: No plugins at all; Game mode: Softcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Tutorial on ^t; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 24 hours; Players now: At least 10; Boxes: Official only.
Who runs [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?
[EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small and 124 other servers we track both publish a playrust.com hostname, which points to the same operator in all likelihood.
What do the server tags on [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small mean?
The browser in the game reads 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): The ruleset is softcore, which is easier; mp250 (Max players): 250 is the slot count; ts4 (Group limit): Each team holds no more than 4; v2636 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2636; your build has to match it to join; cs169627 (Build): The game build is 169627; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the standard network layer for the game, and it is what runs here; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): Expect one wipe a month: it lands with the Facepunch force wipe; ^t (Tutorial on): If you are new, you can begin with Facepunch's tutorial here; sc2 (Custom tag): You will not find this among the standard Rust tags: a plugin or the owner set it from [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small as its tags. Current players, queue length and world creation time sit in the tags as well, and appear at the top of this page.
Player counts
How busy is [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?
[EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small has 11 of its 250 slots filled at the moment. Its seven-day average is 10 players, and it reached 25 at the highest. The busiest point in the last 48 hours was 13:00 UTC, averaging 19 players.
How does [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small rank against other Rust servers?
Player hours over seven days put [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small at #957, in the top 4% of all ranked servers. Among servers of the quad type, it sits at #50.
Wipe days
What does wipe day look like on [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?
Its recent wipes averaged a peak of 21 players. On the latest wipe, 31 hours passed before the crowd peaked. Above half that peak until the next wipe: that held in 100% of recent wipes.
What is the wipe schedule on [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?
Once a month [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small wipes, with the force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, and that is its next wipe. The world it runs now dates from 6 hours ago. The tags carry a wipe schedule of once a month.
Map and rules
What are the rules and settings on [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?
You will not find a gather rate in the name of [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small. The limit is 4 players per group (quad). softcore is what it plays, Facepunch's easier setting: part of your loot is kept. Raids and player fights are part of the game here. The in-game Official tab of Rust includes it. VAC is on: that is Valve's anti-cheat.
Which map does [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small run?
A procedural map of size 3,750 with seed 597885 is what [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small runs, generated by the game. Size and seed fix the map, so this page can show it on RustMaps.
Connect
How do I join [EU] Facepunch Staging Softcore Small?
Type client.connect 79.137.98.21:28017 in the Rust console, which F1 opens. Launch Rust on this page also works: Steam opens Rust and connects you.
