[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue
Offline 51.81.166.171:28018 checked 2d 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 67% 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 18d 9h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 18d 9hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
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 UTC19d 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
the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes
- 125/ 200
- 104/ 200
- 57/ 200
- 58/ 100
- 44/ 200
- 48/ 200
Quick answers
Tags and listings
Where does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue appear in Rust Going Deep lists and filters?
The Rust Going Deep lists that carry [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue are: Rust tutorial servers, Official Rust servers, tracked live, North American Rust server list and Vanilla Rust servers. You can find it on the server list by 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.
Who's in charge of [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
A playrust.com hostname comes from [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue and from 124 other servers we track, which points to one operator behind them.
How should you read the tags on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
The server browser shows these tags for [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): This is the standard Rust survival experience; mp500 (Max players): There are 500 slots on this server; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2634 (Protocol): The protocol is 2634; a different version won't get you in; cs166100 (Build): This server runs build 166100; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, Rust's default; $r? (Region code): It has no region code; ^m (Monthly): Facepunch's force wipe is when this server wipes each month; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, no kits, no rule tweaks: this is the game Facepunch released; ^t (Tutorial on): If you're new, you can begin with the Facepunch tutorial; sc2 (Custom tag): The owner or a plugin created this tag, so it's not standard Rust; ^x (Unknown flag): Facepunch doesn't explain this flag anywhere. The tags carry its player count right now, its queue and the world's age, and all three are displayed up top.
About the server
What location is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue in?
The name of [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue points to North America, even without a region tag. Rust Going Deep takes the server's word for its location and does not find out where the hardware sits. The endpoint is 51.81.166.171:28018.
Is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue up, and how often does it stay online?
[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue is down at the moment; it was last up 2 days 18 hours ago. Over the past full 7 days it stayed up for 112 of 168 hours, or 67%. Rust Going Deep has had it on record since 13 September 2026.
What is the Rust version for [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
On Windows, [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166100. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam takes care of updating it.
Wipe schedule
What schedule does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue follow for wipes?
One wipe a month is all [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue does, and that is the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives, wiping every Rust server, and that is its next wipe. 19 days 10 hours is how long ago this world came into being. The tags list wipes scheduled every month.
What can you expect on wipe day at [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
The average peak across recent wipes is 1 players. On the latest wipe, 19 hours passed before the crowd peaked.
Map and rules
What settings are in place on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
The name of [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue contains no gather rate. Up to 8 players per group, which is the default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. You will find it in the Official tab in game. Its own word for it is vanilla: no changed rates, no kits, no rule tweaks: this is the game Facepunch released. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
Which map is active on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
A game-generated procedural map of size 2,500 with seed 5346364 is in play on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, since the same size and seed produce the same map.
Player count
Is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue busy?
The last sighting of [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue was 2 days 18 hours ago; it is offline right now. The seven-day average is 0 players, with a peak of 1.
What position does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue hold in the server rankings?
For player hours in the last seven days, [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue ranks #14,778, within the top 67% of ranked servers.
Getting in
What's the way to join [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
Open Rust and press F1, then type client.connect 51.81.166.171:28018. Alternatively, click Launch Rust on this page to join via Steam.