[AE] Facepunch 2

The rank for [AE] Facepunch 2 is #893 on seven-day player hours, in the top 4% of ranked servers.

Right now, 26 players occupy the 350 slots on [AE] Facepunch 2. Averaging 16 players over seven days, it peaked at 45. The 48-hour peak time is 19:00 UTC, when it averaged 43 players.

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398 on Windows is what [AE] Facepunch 2 runs. Steam updates your game so your protocol matches; that is required to join.

For the last 48 hours, average server fps was 127, with a minimum of 95. Entities reached 143,456 - buildings, deployables and the rest. Peak memory: 5,802 MB. The lag players notice comes from low fps and rising entity counts.

For [AE] Facepunch 2, no region is published. Rust Server Now does not verify machine locations; it only shows where a server says it is. For this server, the address is 185.179.203.164:28015.

Right now [AE] Facepunch 2 shows as online. The last restart happened around 32 hours ago, according to uptime. 168 of 168 hours up in the last 7 full days; that is 100%. 13 September 2026 is when Rust Server Now first saw it.

The server browser reads these tags from [AE] Facepunch 2: 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): Standard Rust survival is the game mode; mp350 (Max players): Slot count: 350; ts8 (Group limit): The default applies: 8 to a team; v2634 (Protocol): Game protocol 2634 - same version required to connect; cs167398 (Build): Game build: 167398; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, standard for Rust; $r? (Region code): No region set; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, timed to Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Pure Facepunch Rust: rates, kits and rules unchanged; ^t (Tutorial on): This server lets new players begin with Facepunch's tutorial; sc2 (Custom tag): The owner or a plugin added this tag; it isn't a standard Rust one. At the top of this page you also see the current players, the queue and when the world was created, all drawn from the tags.

124 other servers we track also publish a playrust.com hostname alongside [AE] Facepunch 2, so they are most likely run by the same operator.

These Rust Server Now lists include [AE] Facepunch 2: Rust tutorial servers (live), Official Rust servers, ranked live and Vanilla Rust servers, ranked live. It appears on the server list when you apply these filters: 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; Players now: At least 10; Average players: 10+ on average; Boxes: Official only.

[AE] Facepunch 2 takes a single wipe each month, the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives as its next wipe, wiping every Rust server. It has been running its current world for 9 days 1 hours. Its tags advertise a monthly wipe schedule.

On average, 28 players was the busiest its recent wipes got. 27 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked.

The map on [AE] Facepunch 2 is procedural, size 4,500 with seed 1120603257, generated by the game. Size and seed together determine the map, which can be viewed on RustMaps from this page.

No gather rate appears in the name [AE] Facepunch 2. 8 players per group is the default and the limit here. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. PvP and raiding are enabled. Rust's in-game Official tab includes it. Its self-description is vanilla: pure Facepunch Rust: rates, kits and rules unchanged. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.

To connect, open Rust, press F1, and enter client.connect 185.179.203.164:28015. You can also click Launch Rust here to open the game via Steam and join.