[AU] Facepunch 2

In the top 4% of all ranked servers, [AU] Facepunch 2 holds #917 for player hours over the last seven days.

Right now, 12 players occupy the 250 slots on [AU] Facepunch 2. Its seven-day average is 16 players; the peak is 31. Its busiest point in the last 48 hours was 08:00 UTC, averaging 18 players.

Version for [AU] Facepunch 2: Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398 on Windows. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

For the last 48 hours, average server fps was 170, with a minimum of 136. Entities peaked at 141,005, including buildings, deployables and all other world objects. The maximum memory used was 5,532 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and entities climb.

Its name points to Oceania, even though [AU] Facepunch 2 publishes no region tag. Rust Server Now does not verify machine locations; it only shows where a server says it is. 51.161.199.230:28015 is its address.

Right now [AU] Facepunch 2 shows as online. About 13 hours ago was its last restart, based on reported uptime. Over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours were online, or 100%. 13 September 2026 is when Rust Server Now first saw it.

The server browser reads these tags from [AU] 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; mp250 (Max players): Slot count: 250; ts8 (Group limit): Team cap 8, which is the game default; v2634 (Protocol): Your game must run protocol 2634; cs167398 (Build): This server runs build 167398; ptrak (Networking): Network layer: RakNet, the game's default; $r? (Region code): No region set; ^m (Monthly): Every month it wipes, together with Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): No altered rates, kits or rules - exactly what Facepunch ships; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial is available for new players on this server; sc2 (Custom tag): A custom tag, not one of the standard Rust set, applied by the owner or a plugin. Its queue, its current player count and the world's creation time sit in the tags as well, shown at the top of this page.

[AU] Facepunch 2 and 124 other servers we track share a playrust.com hostname, so they are most likely run by the same operator.

[AU] Facepunch 2 appears on the following Rust Server Now lists: Rust tutorial servers (live), Oceania Rust servers, live, Official Rust servers, ranked live and Vanilla Rust servers, ranked live. It appears on the server list when you apply these filters: Region: Oceania; 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.

Once a month, [AU] Facepunch 2 wipes with the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives as its next wipe, wiping every Rust server. This world is 8 days 7 hours old. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.

30 players on average marked the busiest point of its recent wipes. 39 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked.

For [AU] Facepunch 2, the map is procedural at size 4,500 with seed 157227784, 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 [AU] Facepunch 2. Up to 8 players can group, which is the game's default. This server runs survival, normal Rust: gather, build, raid. PvP and raiding are enabled. Rust's in-game Official tab includes it. It uses the term vanilla for itself: no altered rates, kits or rules - exactly what Facepunch ships. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Press F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 51.161.199.230:28015, or click Launch Rust here to open Rust via Steam and join.