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blaqs staging ground

Online 104.234.251.164:28015 checked 10m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 30 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,335top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe85d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no wipe seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123415:0000:0009:0017:0003:0012:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

05010015020015:0000:0009:0017:0003:0012:00

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.

Climbing the charts

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers 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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The interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include blaqs staging ground?

You'll find blaqs staging ground on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Modded Rust servers, live. It appears under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.

What do the server tags on blaqs staging ground mean?

For the server browser, blaqs staging ground lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp30 (Max players): There are 30 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2631 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2631, so your client has to match it to join; cs158240 (Build): It's on game build 158240; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does blaqs staging ground rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #15,335 puts blaqs staging ground in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on blaqs staging ground right now?

The current tally at blaqs staging ground: 0 players across 30 slots. Across the past week it drew an average of 0 players.

Server details

Is blaqs staging ground online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, blaqs staging ground is online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 6 days 20 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 167, a 99% uptime. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.

Does blaqs staging ground run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 92, and it never went below 62. Entities reached a maximum of 70,337: buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 3,571 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is blaqs staging ground located?

No region is published by blaqs staging ground. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. You'll find it at 104.234.251.164:28015.

Which Rust version is blaqs staging ground on?

On Windows, blaqs staging ground runs Rust network protocol 2631 and build 158240. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe days

What is the wipe schedule on blaqs staging ground?

Too few wipes are on record for blaqs staging ground to reveal its rhythm. The monthly force wipe takes every Rust server down for a new world, and the next one lands on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The world it is running now dates from 85 days 21 hours.

The rules

Which map does blaqs staging ground run?

Generated by the game with seed 648252, the map on blaqs staging ground is procedural and 3,500 in size. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.

What are the rules and settings on blaqs staging ground?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on blaqs staging ground. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. survival is the game mode, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Raids and PvP are both on the table. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. The plugin count is Oxide. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

Join up

How do I join blaqs staging ground?

Enter client.connect 104.234.251.164:28015 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp30,ptrak,$r?,v2631,gmrust,cs158240,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp30
Max players There are 30 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2631
Protocol The game protocol is 2631, so your client has to match it to join.
cs158240
Build It's on game build 158240.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs.
^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing.

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.