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Camera-shy: no banner published Staging Onlineright now
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Staging

Online 168.100.162.12:30015 checked 11m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ ? slots steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,257top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe15d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123410:0020:0005:0013:0022:0007:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608010:0020:0005:0013:0022:0007:00

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 Oct14 Oct22 Oct30 Oct

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

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

too few wipes seen yet

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

0
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Wed 14 Oct, 14:28 UTC15d 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.

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The interview

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?

For the server browser, Staging lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp0 (Max players): It has 0 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs169552 (Build): The game build is 169552; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set. 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 #15,257 puts Staging in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on Staging right now?

The count at Staging right now: 0 players. It has averaged 0 players over the last seven days.

Server facts

Is Staging online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, Staging is online. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 36 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 Staging run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 60 server fps, with a low of 60. At its peak it held 43,000 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Memory use peaked at 4,199 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is Staging located?

There is no region from Staging. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 168.100.162.12:30015.

Which Rust version is Staging on?

On Linux, Staging runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 169552. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

The wipe schedule

What happens on Staging when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 0 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

What is the wipe schedule on Staging?

The record of Staging's wipes is still too thin to show its rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives, and every Rust server wipes with it at monthly intervals. 15 days 18 hours is when the present world was made.

Rules and settings

Which map does Staging run?

Generated by the game with seed 1234567810, the map on Staging is procedural and 3,000 in size. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.

What are the rules and settings on Staging?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on Staging. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Community is its listing in the server browser. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Join up

How do I join Staging?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 168.100.162.12:30015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp0,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs169552,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp0
Max players It has 0 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2635
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635.
cs169552
Build The game build is 169552.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code No region code has been set.

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.