[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red
51.81.166.171:28016 checked 10m 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
Top 27% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 21d 22h. The force wipe · high confidence
- wipe-day peak
- 1 players, last three wipes
Coming wipes
- 21d 22hThu 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, 10 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 29 Sep, 08:18 UTC 15d 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
Player Numbers
Where does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red sit in the rankings?
Over the last seven days, [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red ranks #5,947 in player hours, which is in the top 27% of ranked servers.
What is the player count on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red: 0 players now, with 500 slots available. The seven-day average player count stands at 0, and the highest point was 3. Over the last 48 hours, the peak hour was 22:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.
Server Tags
What is the meaning of the tags on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
Read by the game's server browser, the tags [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red publishes are: 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): Slots: 500; ts8 (Group limit): The game default is 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: join only if your game matches this version; cs166146 (Build): Running build 166146; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer in use; $r? (Region code): No region code listed; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, synced to Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules—the game as shipped; ^t (Tutorial on): The Facepunch tutorial is enabled for new players; sc2 (Custom tag): Set by the owner or a plugin, not a standard Rust tag; ^x (Unknown flag): No documentation from Facepunch for this flag. At the top of this page you also see its players now, its queue and when its world was made, taken from the tags.
Who operates [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
Both [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red and 124 other servers we track publish a playrust.com hostname, so they are most likely run by the same operator.
Which lists and filters on BestRustServers.xyz contain [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
The BestRustServers.xyz lists that include [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red are: Rust tutorial servers, Official Rust servers, North American Rust servers and Vanilla-tagged Rust servers. These filters on the server list display it: 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 Overview
What Rust version is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red on?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166146 on Windows is what [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red uses. Steam updates your game automatically, but it needs to match the protocol to join.
Is the performance on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red smooth?
For the past 48 hours, server fps averaged 59, never dropping below 57. The entity count reached 33,758, covering buildings, deployables and all other world objects. Memory use peaked at 4,370 MB. What players experience as lag is low fps combined with a rising entity count.
[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red uptime and reliability: what are they?
At the moment, [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red is up. About 15 days 10 hours ago is when it last restarted, based on its uptime. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours. It was first seen by BestRustServers.xyz on 13 September 2026.
[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red location: where is it?
Without a region tag, [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red's name points to North America. BestRustServers.xyz does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. 51.81.166.171:28016 is its address.
Rules & Map
Which map is used on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
Generated by the game, the map on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red is procedural, size 2,500, seed 4575464. The map can be viewed on RustMaps from this page, since size and seed fix it.
[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red rules and settings: what are they?
No gather rate appears in the name of [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red. No group limit is stated; the game's default of 8 players applies. Listed as survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. Player combat and raiding are enabled. Rust's Official tab includes this server. Vanilla is the label it uses: no changed rates, kits or rules—the game as shipped. The server has VAC on.
Wipe Schedule
On what schedule does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red wipe?
Once a month [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red wipes, with the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. Its world dates from 15 days 12 hours. The tags declare wipes once a month.
What happens on wipe day on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
An average peak of 1 players was drawn by its recent wipes. 10 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.
Join Server
What is the process to join [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
Use the F1 console: client.connect 51.81.166.171:28016. Launch Rust on this page does the same by opening Rust through Steam and connecting.
Server tags
Published as mp500,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs166146,sc2,^x,ts8
On BestRustServers.xyz
- 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.
Game
gmrust- Game mode Survival as standard in Rust.
mp500- Max players Slots: 500.
ts8- Group limit The game default is 8 per team.
v2634- Protocol Protocol 2634: join only if your game matches this version.
cs166146- Build Running build 166146.
ptrak- Networking RakNet is the network layer in use.
$r?- Region code No region code listed.
Wipe schedule
^m- Monthly Monthly wipes, synced to Facepunch's force wipe.
Difficulty
^v- Vanilla No changed rates, kits or rules—the game as shipped.
Gameplay
^t- Tutorial on The Facepunch tutorial is enabled for new players.
Other
sc2- Custom tag Set by the owner or a plugin, not a standard Rust tag.
^x- Unknown flag No documentation from Facepunch for this flag.
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.