Online51.81.166.171:28016checked 9m ago
[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red
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 28% 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 21d 16h. 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, 10 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 29 Sep, 08:18 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 server rules for [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
A gather rate is absent from the name of [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red. Groups are capped at 8 players, the default in the game. The server runs survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. PvP and raiding are enabled. It appears in the Official tab in-game. Its own label is vanilla: unmodified Rust: no changed rates, no kits, no extra rules. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.
Which map is running on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
The game generates a procedural map of size 2,500 with seed 4575464 for [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red. The map is identical for the same size and seed, so it can be viewed on RustMaps from this page.
Tags, lists and filters
Who operates [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
A playrust.com hostname is published by [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red and 124 other servers we track, so the same operator probably runs them.
Where can [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red be found in Rust Player Count lists and filters?
The Rust Player Count lists that [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red fits are: Rust tutorial servers, Official Rust servers, North American Rust servers and Vanilla Rust servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: 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.
What information do the tags on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red convey?
The game's server browser reads these tags from [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red: 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 usual Rust survival experience; mp500 (Max players): Capacity: 500 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams max out at 8, the standard game limit; v2634 (Protocol): Joining requires the same protocol: 2634; cs166146 (Build): Build number: 166146; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the game's default networking; $r? (Region code): The region code field is empty; ^m (Monthly): Expect one wipe per month, alongside the forced wipe from Facepunch; ^v (Vanilla): Unmodified Rust: no changed rates, no kits, no extra rules; ^t (Tutorial on): Start here with the tutorial from Facepunch if you are new; sc2 (Custom tag): The owner or a plugin added this non-standard Rust tag; ^x (Unknown flag): This flag has no entry in Facepunch's documentation. You will also find its current players, its queue and its world creation time in the tags, displayed at the top of this page.
Player numbers
How full is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
With 500 slots, [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red has 1 players at the moment. The average player count for the last seven days is 0, and the highest point was 3. The busiest time in the last 48 hours was 03:00 UTC, with an average of 1 players.
Where does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red sit in the rankings?
[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red is in the top 28% of all ranked servers with a rank of #6,207 for player hours over the past seven days.
Server information
What is the online status and reliability of [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red is currently online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 15 days 16 hours ago. In the last 7 full days, it was up for 168 of 168 hours, which is 100% uptime. Rust Player Count recorded it for the first time on 13 September 2026.
What Rust version is used on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
On Windows, [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166146. The protocol has to match for you to join, but Steam updates it without any action from you.
Where can you find [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
Without a region tag from [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red, its name points to North America. The location shown by Rust Player Count is the one a server provides; it does not verify where the machine actually is. You can reach it at 51.81.166.171:28016.
How well does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red perform?
In the last 48 hours, it averaged 59 server fps, with a low of 57. Up to 33,723 entities were present, including buildings, deployables and other world objects. Memory usage reached up to 4,370 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.
Wipe schedule
What happens on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red when a wipe occurs?
Recent wipes saw an average peak of 1 players. 10 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.
When does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red wipe?
The only wipes for [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red are monthly, tied to the force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. The world in play was created 15 days 18 hours ago. The tags show a wipe schedule set to monthly.
How to join
What is the process to join [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
Open the Rust console with F1, then type client.connect 51.81.166.171:28016. Alternatively, fit into the server through the Launch Rust button on this page; that starts Rust via Steam and joins you.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished as mp500,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs166146,sc2,^x,ts8
On Rust Player Count
Game
gmrust
mp500
ts8
v2634
cs166146
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.