Several Rust players in Europe may have unexpectedly lost their servers this morning. According to developer Facepunch Studios, a fire in a datacenter destroyed 25 servers, and the data on those servers has been lost.
The fire occurred in the OVH Datacenter in Strasbourg, Germany. It completely destroyed one of the OVH buildings and damaged another. Although the fire was large enough to take the entire four-building OVH Datacenter offline, everyone was evacuated safely and the fire was controlled by the firefighters. The data center will remain virtually offline until next week.
According to a Facepunch update posted after the fires were under control, “We confirm the total loss of the affected EU servers during the fire at the OVH data center. We are now exploring replacing the affected servers. The data will not be restored. ”
Rust it has regular server cleanups that take place every month, which slightly reduces the amount of data that can be lost from each server. At the last update, Facepunch confirmed that many of the EU’s game servers are returning online without the progress of the game that was stored on them. It is unclear whether this will affect the game’s increased capacity in the EU as OVH’s servers go back online.