Online51.81.166.171:28018checked 11m ago
[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue
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 42% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 22d 9h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 19 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 28 Sep, 23:17 UTC15d ago | 1 | – | running | 0 |
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.
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What are the rules and settings on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
No gather rate appears in the name of [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue. Groups can reach 8 players, the default for the game. It runs survival, the default game of gathering, building and raiding. Raiding and player combat are enabled. The in-game Official tab of Rust lists it. Its self-description is vanilla: unmodified from Facepunch: the same rates, kits and rules. VAC from Valve is active as anti-cheat.
What map is used on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue uses a procedural map of size 2,500 with seed 5346364, generated by the game. The same size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
Population
How populated is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
The current population of [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue is 0, out of 500 slots. The seven-day average is 0 players, with a peak of 1. The highest average over the last 48 hours occurred at 01:00 UTC, with 0 players.
What position does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue hold in the Rust server rankings?
Over the last seven days, [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue ranks #9,356 for player hours, placing it in the top 42% of all ranked servers.
Tags
What is the meaning of the tags on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
These tags are set by [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue and read by the game's server browser: 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): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp500 (Max players): The slot count is 500; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, which is the default for Rust; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on protocol 2634; cs166100 (Build): It runs on game build 166100; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the default network layer for Rust, and this server uses it; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): Facepunch's force wipe marks its monthly wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Unmodified from Facepunch: the same rates, kits and rules; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial is available for new players on this server; sc2 (Custom tag): The owner or a plugin added this tag; it is not a standard Rust tag; ^x (Unknown flag): No Facepunch documentation exists for this flag. Also in the tags, and shown at the top of this page: its players now, its queue, and when its world was made.
Who is the operator of [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
The playrust.com hostname published by [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue is also used by 124 other servers we track, suggesting the same operator runs them.
Where does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue appear in When Is Rust Force Wipe lists and filters?
On When Is Rust Force Wipe, [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue is placed in these lists: Official Rust servers, Rust tutorial servers, Rust servers in North America and Vanilla Rust servers, live. Its filters on the server list are Region: North America; 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; Boxes: Official only.
Operator and location
Where can [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue be found?
Its name points to North America, though [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue publishes no region tag. When Is Rust Force Wipe displays the location a server reports, not the physical location of the machine. Connect using 51.81.166.171:28018.
How smooth is the performance on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
Over the last 48 hours the average was 59 server fps, and the lowest was 53. The world held as many as 30,837 entities: buildings, deployables and all other objects. At its peak it used 4,398 MB of memory. Players feel lag when fps drops and entity counts climb.
How reliable is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue, and is it currently online?
Right now [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue is up. Its reported uptime shows a restart roughly 15 days 8 hours ago. It was up 168 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, 100% of the time. The first sighting of it by When Is Rust Force Wipe was on 13 September 2026.
What Rust version is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue on?
On Windows, [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166100. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam updates it for you.
Wipe days
How often does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue wipe, and when?
The force wipe is the only wipe [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue takes, once a month. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC; that is its next wipe. It has been running its current world since 15 days 10 hours ago. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
What happens on wipe day for [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
Its recent wipes averaged 1 players at peak. The peak of the crowd on the latest wipe came 19 hours after the wipe.
Join info
What steps are needed to join [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
Open Rust, press F1 for the console, then type client.connect 51.81.166.171:28018. Alternatively, use Launch Rust on this page to start Rust via Steam and join.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished as mp500,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs166100,sc2,^x,ts8
On When Is Rust Force Wipe
Game
gmrust
mp500
ts8
v2634
cs166100
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Difficulty
^v
Gameplay
^t
Other
sc2
^x
Players now (cp), the queue (qp) and the wipe time (born) are in the tag string too; they change every few minutes and are shown at the top of the page. Flag meanings are Facepunch's.