[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red
51.81.166.171:28016 checked 8m ago
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 25% 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, 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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Quick answers
Rules and settings
What settings does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red run?
No gather rate appears in the name [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red. The group cap is 8 players, the default for the game. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid: the standard game. Raiding and fighting other players are allowed. The in-game Official tab of Rust includes it. The word it uses for itself is vanilla: it runs the unmodified game: rates, kits and rules are all standard. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, from Valve.
What is the map on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
A procedural map, size 2,500 with seed 4575464, generated by the game, is what [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red runs. You can view it on RustMaps from this page, since the same size and seed give the same map.
Player count
How full is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
The server [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red is currently at 0 players out of 500 slots. The seven-day average is 0 players, with a peak of 3. In the last two days, the peak hour was 22:00 UTC, with an average of 1 players.
What is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red's ranking?
For player hours over the last week, [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red is #5,672, which puts it in the top 25% of all ranked servers.
Server tags
Who manages [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red publishes a playrust.com hostname, which 124 other servers we track also publish, so the same operator most likely runs them.
How should you read the tags on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
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): Standard survival gameplay; mp500 (Max players): It holds 500 players; ts8 (Group limit): The team cap is 8, which is the game's default; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634—only players on that version can get in; cs166146 (Build): Build number: 166146; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, timed with the force wipe from Facepunch; ^v (Vanilla): It runs the unmodified game: rates, kits and rules are all standard; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial is available for new players; sc2 (Custom tag): Custom tag: added by the owner or a plugin, outside Rust's standard set; ^x (Unknown flag): This flag has no official explanation from Facepunch. At the top of this page you see its players now, its queue and the time its world was made, which are in the tags too.
Where does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red appear in Rust Zerg Life lists?
The Rust Zerg Life lists that include [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red are Rust servers with the tutorial on, Official Rust servers for clans, North American Rust servers and Vanilla servers for clans and zergs. Under these filters it shows 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.
Server info
How reliable is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red, and is it up?
You can join [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red now: it is online. The uptime figure it gives suggests it restarted around 14 days 23 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, uptime was 100%: 168 hours up out of 168. Rust Zerg Life has been tracking it since 13 September 2026.
Is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red smooth to play on?
Server fps held an average of 59 for the last 48 hours, with a minimum of 57. It reached a maximum of 33,758 entities, covering buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. At its highest, memory usage hit 4,139 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Which Rust build does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red use?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166146 is what [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red runs, on Windows. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam will update your game to that protocol.
Where can you find [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
Its name points to North America, though [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red publishes no region tag. The location shown by Rust Zerg Life is what a server says; it does not check where the machine stands. You can reach it at 51.81.166.171:28016.
Wipe cycle
What happens on wipe day on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
The average peak for its recent wipes was 1 players. 10 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked.
What schedule does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red follow for wipes?
Once a month [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red wipes, along with the force wipe. Its next wipe falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC with the force wipe, which every Rust server takes. The world it is running now dates from 15 days 1 hours ago. Its tags publish a wipe schedule of once a month.
How to join
How can I connect to [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
You can join by opening the console with F1 and typing client.connect 51.81.166.171:28016. Or hit Launch Rust on this page to open Rust through Steam and connect.
Server tags
Published as mp500,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs166146,sc2,^x,ts8
On Rust Zerg Life
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.