[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue
51.81.166.171:28018 checked 11m 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 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 8h. 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
Quick answers
Server rules
What settings does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue run?
No gather rate appears in the name [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue. That is the game's default: groups of up to 8 players. survival is the game mode, gather, build, raid: the regular game. Raiding and fighting other players are allowed. The in-game Official tab of Rust includes it. Vanilla is what it calls itself: nothing is altered from the base game—no custom rates, kits or rules. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.
Which map is active on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
The game generates the procedural map of size 2,500 on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue with seed 5346364. Same size and seed, same map: RustMaps shows it from this page.
Population
How full is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
The server [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue is currently at 0 players out of 500 slots. The seven-day average is 0 players, with a peak of 1. The busiest time in the last 48 hours was 01:00 UTC, when it averaged 0 players.
What is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue's ranking?
For player hours over the last week, [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue is #9,353, which puts it in the top 42% of all ranked servers.
Server tags
Who manages [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
The same operator most likely runs [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue and 124 other servers we track, as they all publish a playrust.com hostname.
What is the meaning of the tags on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
The game's server browser reads these tags from [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue: 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 in the standard Rust mode; mp500 (Max players): It holds 500 players; ts8 (Group limit): The team cap is 8, which is the game's default; v2634 (Protocol): You'll need protocol 2634 on your game to join; cs166100 (Build): Build number: 166100; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is standard; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): You get a wipe once a month, together with the force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Nothing is altered from the base game—no custom rates, kits or rules; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial is available for new players; sc2 (Custom tag): The owner or a plugin set this tag; it's not part of standard Rust; ^x (Unknown flag): This flag has no official explanation from Facepunch. Also in the tags: its players now, its queue and the time its world was made, and the top of this page shows them.
Which Rust Zerg Life filters and lists cover [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
Rust servers with the tutorial on, Official Rust servers for clans, North American Rust servers and Vanilla servers for clans and zergs: that is where you will find [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue among the Rust Zerg Life rankings. 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.
About the server
How reliable is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue, and is it up?
You can join [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue now: it is online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 15 days 8 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.
How well does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue perform?
It averaged 59 server fps over the last 48 hours, and the lowest it got was 53. It reached a maximum of 30,837 entities, covering buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. The maximum memory it used was 4,398 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is caused by low fps and an increasing number of entities.
Which Rust build does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue use?
The server [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166100 with Windows as its operating system. You can only join if your game uses the same protocol, and Steam takes care of updating it.
Where can you find [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
No region tag comes from [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue, but its name points to North America. The location shown by Rust Zerg Life is what a server says; it does not check where the machine stands. Connect to it at 51.81.166.171:28018.
Wipe cycle
What can you expect on wipe day on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew an average of 1 players. On the latest wipe, 19 hours after the wipe, the crowd hit its peak.
What schedule does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue follow for wipes?
The force wipe is the only wipe for [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue, coming once a month. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, when all Rust servers wipe. The world in play right now was made 15 days 10 hours ago. Its tags publish a wipe schedule of once a month.
Connect
What is the process to join [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
Enter client.connect 51.81.166.171:28018 in the F1 console. Another way: use Launch Rust on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
Server tags
Published as mp500,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs166100,sc2,^x,ts8
On Rust Zerg Life
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.