Players now
Live- Full
- 12%
- In queue
- 0
- Peak, 48 hours
- 88
- Peak, 7 days
- 112
12% full
Rank
top 2%
7-day average
peak 112
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 2% of all ranked servers, and #24 of the quad servers (top 3%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 22h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 7d 22hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 35d 22hThu 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 139, 47 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 17:40 UTC FW27d ago | 139 | – | running | 35 |
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 5/ 100
- 2 9/ 100
- 3 3/ 125
- 4 2/ 100
- 5 3/ 50
- 6 2/ 50
Quick answers
from the figures on this pageServer details
Is [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 online, and how reliable is it?
Right now [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 is running. About 4 hours ago it restarted, judging by the uptime figure it gives. It was online 100% of the last 7 full days, which is 168 of 168 hours. Rust Dashboard logged it for the first time on 13 September 2026.
Which version of Rust does [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 run?
[EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909, and Windows is the system under it. Joining needs the same protocol on your side, and Steam handles that update.
Where is [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 located?
The name of [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 points to Europe, but no region tag is published. The location shown at Rust Dashboard is the one the server states; no lookup of the machine's position happens. You'll connect at 79.137.98.22:28015.
Does [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 run smoothly?
Across the last 48 hours the average was 173 fps, with a floor of 123. At its highest the count reached 279,885 entities: buildings, deployables and the rest. It drew as much as 8,298 MB of memory at peak. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.
Tags, lists
Which Rust Dashboard lists and filters include [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3?
The Rust Dashboard lists that carry [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 are: 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; Players now: At least 10; Average players: 25+ on average; Boxes: Official only.
Who runs [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3?
A playrust.com hostname is published by [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3, and by 124 other servers we track, so one operator most likely runs them all.
What do the server tags on [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 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; mp400 (Max players): The server has 400 slots; ts4 (Group limit): Teams top out at 4; v2635 (Protocol): Your game needs to be on the same version, protocol 2635, to get in; cs168909 (Build): This one runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): The region code is blank; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, together with the force wipe from Facepunch; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial is available here for players who are new; sc2 (Custom tag): The owner or a plugin set this tag; it is not one of Rust's standard tags from [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 as its tags. At the top of this page you'll find the current players, the queue and the world's creation time, which the tags carry too.
Population
How busy is [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3?
47 players are playing on [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 right now, out of 400 slots. Over seven days the mean is 39 players and the peak is 112. Across the last 48 hours, the peak came at 18:00 UTC with an average of 83 players.
How does [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 rank against other Rust servers?
Player hours over seven days put [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 at #422, in the top 2% of all ranked servers. It ranks #24 among quad servers.
Wipe days
What does wipe day look like on [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3?
The average busiest point of its recent wipes was 139 players. 47 hours into the latest wipe the crowd peaked.
What is the wipe schedule on [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3?
Once a month [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 wipes, with the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, shared with every Rust server. The world now in play was generated 27 days 3 hours ago. A monthly wipe schedule is set out in its tags.
Rules
What are the rules and settings on [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3?
The name of [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 gives no gather rate. Teams cap at 4 players (quad). softcore is the mode here, Facepunch's easier setting: part of your loot is kept. Fighting and raiding between players are both allowed. The in-game Official tab of Rust includes it. VAC is on: that is Valve's anti-cheat.
Which map does [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 run?
[EU] Facepunch Softcore 3 runs a procedural map of size 4,500 with seed 1478860386, made by the game. Because size and seed fix the map, a RustMaps view is available from this page.
Connect
How do I join [EU] Facepunch Softcore 3?
The console in Rust opens with F1, and client.connect 79.137.98.22:28015 goes in there. Launch Rust on this page is the other route, opening Rust through Steam to connect you.
