The Nexus
79.117.123.136:28015 checked 14h 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 8 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 23% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No wipe seen yet. | ||||
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
Map and rules
What settings does The Nexus run?
You will not find a gather rate in the name The Nexus. 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 server browser lists it under Modded: the game is changed by plugins or settings. The plugins it runs number Carbon. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.
Which map is active on The Nexus?
A procedural map, size 4,500 with seed 1337, generated by the game, is what The Nexus runs. You can view it on RustMaps from this page, since the same size and seed give the same map.
Population
How many players are on The Nexus?
The server The Nexus is currently offline; it was last seen 14 hours ago. Averaging 0 players over seven days, it peaked at 1. In the last two days, the peak hour was 08:00 UTC, with an average of 1 players.
What is The Nexus's ranking?
In the top 23% of ranked servers, The Nexus holds #5,029 for player hours over the last seven days.
Tags and filters
What is the meaning of the tags on The Nexus?
What the game's server browser gets from The Nexus is this tag list: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust mode; mp50 (Max players): The server has 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the standard team limit of 8; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634—only players on that version can get in; cs167584 (Build): Build number: 167584; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^z (Modded): The Modded listing means plugins or settings have changed the game; ^y (Carbon): Plugins run through Carbon. The tags carry its players now, its queue and the time its world was made as well, and the top of this page displays them.
Where does The Nexus appear in Rust Zerg Life lists?
Modded Rust servers for clans and zergs: that is where you will find The Nexus among the Rust Zerg Life rankings. Under these filters it shows on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.
About the server
How reliable is The Nexus, and is it up?
The Nexus is offline at the moment; the last time it was seen was 14 hours ago. The uptime figure it gives suggests it restarted around 1 hours ago. It was up 85% of the time across the last 5 full days: 102 of 120 hours. Its first appearance in Rust Zerg Life records is 8 October 2026.
What is the performance like on The Nexus?
Server fps held an average of 50 for the last 48 hours, with a minimum of 30. The world held as many as 121,773 entities, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 4,115 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are the source of the lag players feel.
What version is The Nexus using?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167584 is what The Nexus runs, on Linux. You can only join if your game uses the same protocol, and Steam takes care of updating it.
Where can you find The Nexus?
From The Nexus, no region is published. 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 79.117.123.136:28015.
Wipe schedule
How often does The Nexus wipe, and on what days?
With so few wipes on record for The Nexus, its pattern is not yet clear. Next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC: the monthly force wipe that every Rust server gets. The world in play right now was made 5 days 12 hours ago.
Join the server
What is the process to join The Nexus?
You can join by opening the console with F1 and typing client.connect 79.117.123.136:28015. Or hit Launch Rust on this page to open Rust through Steam and connect.
Server tags
Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167584,ts8,^z,^y
Game
gmrust
mp50
ts8
v2634
cs167584
ptrak
$r?
Mods and access
^z
^y
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.