staging
Online 151.80.25.50:28013 checked 7m ago
Vital stats
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 69% 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.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 24 Sep, 10:41 UTC33d ago | 0 | – | 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.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Server tags
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include staging?
You'll find staging on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Community servers, by the numbers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
What do the server tags on staging mean?
These are the tags staging publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp150 (Max players): Slots: 150; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join; cs169456 (Build): Game build: 169456; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.
Population
How does staging rank against other Rust servers?
A seven-day player-hours placing of #15,420 puts staging in the top 69% of all ranked servers.
How many players are on staging right now?
0 players are on staging at the moment, out of 150 slots. It has averaged 0 players over the last seven days.
Server details
Is staging online, and how reliable is it?
staging is live at the moment. About 30 minutes ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 95%, with 160 out of 168 hours online. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.
Does staging run smoothly?
The 48-hour average was 1 server fps, with a low of 1. Entities reached a maximum of 119,000: buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 1,659 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.
Where is staging located?
There is no region from staging. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 151.80.25.50:28013.
Which Rust version is staging on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 169456 is the version staging runs on Linux. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.
Wipe days
What happens on staging when wipe day comes around?
Recent wipes averaged a peak of 0 players at their busiest. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 0 hours in.
What is the wipe schedule on staging?
The record of staging's wipes is still too thin to show its rhythm. A force wipe comes round every month for all Rust servers, with the next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Its current world has been live for 33 days 13 hours.
Rules and settings
Which map does staging run?
A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 59991 is what staging runs, made by the game. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map.
What are the rules and settings on staging?
Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on staging. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. the usual game of gathering, building and raiding: that is the survival mode. Players can raid and fight one another. Community is its listing in the server browser. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.
How to join
How do I join staging?
The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 151.80.25.50:28013. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.