Online51.81.166.171:28018checked 12m 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.
Similar servers
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Which rules govern [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
A gather rate is absent from the name of [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue. Groups are capped at 8 players, the default in the game. survival is the game mode, gather, build, raid: the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. It appears in the Official tab in-game. Vanilla is its own description: the standard Facepunch version, without modifications to rates, kits or rules. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.
Which map is running on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
The game generates a procedural map of size 2,500 with seed 5346364 for [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, because the same size and seed give the same map.
Server tags
Who operates [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
Because [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue and 124 other servers we track all publish a playrust.com hostname, they are likely run by the same operator.
Where can [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue be found in Rust Player Count lists and filters?
The Rust Player Count lists that [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue fits are: Rust tutorial servers, Official Rust servers, North American Rust servers and Vanilla Rust servers. You can find it on the server list using these filters: 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 is the meaning of the tags on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
These are the tags [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue publishes for 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): Survival as standard in Rust; mp500 (Max players): 500 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): Teams max out at 8, the standard game limit; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version needs to be on protocol 2634 to connect; cs166100 (Build): The game build is 166100; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard one; $r? (Region code): The region code field is empty; ^m (Monthly): Expect one wipe per month, alongside the forced wipe from Facepunch; ^v (Vanilla): The standard Facepunch version, without modifications to rates, kits or rules; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial is available for those starting out; sc2 (Custom tag): A custom tag, not part of standard Rust: added by the owner or a plugin; ^x (Unknown flag): Facepunch does not document this flag. The tags also include its current players, its queue and when its world was made, shown at the top of this page.
Population
What is the player count on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
0 of 500 slots are filled on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue right now. With a peak of 1, the average over seven days is 0 players. The busiest time in the last 48 hours was 01:00 UTC, with an average of 0 players.
Where does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue sit in the rankings?
[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue is in the top 42% of all ranked servers with a rank of #9,356 for player hours over the past seven days.
Server details
What is the uptime and reliability of [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
You can find [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue online at the moment. The uptime it gives suggests it restarted about 15 days 8 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, it was online for 168 of 168 hours, a 100% uptime. Rust Player Count recorded it for the first time on 13 September 2026.
What is the Rust version for [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
Windows hosts [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue, which runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166100. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam updates it for you.
What is the location of [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
Its name points to North America, even though [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue publishes no region tag. Rust Player Count displays the location a server claims, not the physical location of the machine. You can reach it at 51.81.166.171:28018.
How well does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue perform?
Over the last 48 hours, the average server fps was 59, and it never dropped below 53. The maximum number of entities it carried was 30,837, which includes buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory usage reached up to 4,398 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.
Wipe information
What happens on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue when a wipe occurs?
The average busiest point in recent wipes reached 1 players. 19 hours after the wipe, the crowd on the latest wipe was at its highest.
How often does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue wipe?
Wipes happen once a month on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue, along with the force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. It has been running its current world for 15 days 10 hours. Its tags declare wipes on a monthly schedule.
Connect to the server
What steps are needed to join [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
Open the Rust console with F1, then type client.connect 51.81.166.171:28018. 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,cs166100,sc2,^x,ts8
On Rust Player Count
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.