Aqua Staging Branch
Online 45.92.36.78:28045 checked 9m 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 24 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 62% of all ranked servers, and #582 of the quad servers (top 70%). 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.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players 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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Lists and tags
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Aqua Staging Branch?
These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include Aqua Staging Branch: Modded Rust servers, live. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: Quad.
What do the server tags on Aqua Staging Branch mean?
For the server browser, Aqua Staging Branch lists these tags: gmvanilla (Game mode): The mode is vanilla survival; mp50 (Max players): There are 50 slots; ts4 (Group limit): Each team is capped at 4; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs169070 (Build): Game build: 169070; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded; ^y (Carbon): This server uses Carbon for plugins. 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 Aqua Staging Branch rank against other Rust servers?
A seven-day player-hours placing of #13,865 puts Aqua Staging Branch in the top 62% of all ranked servers. The quad field places it at #582.
How many players are on Aqua Staging Branch right now?
The current tally at Aqua Staging Branch: 0 players across 50 slots. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 1.
Server details
Is Aqua Staging Branch online, and how reliable is it?
Right now, Aqua Staging Branch is up and running. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 7 hours ago. It was up 99% of the time over the last 4 full days, 95 of 96 hours in total. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 24 October 2026.
Does Aqua Staging Branch run smoothly?
Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 99, with 67 as the lowest. The world carried as many as 116,000 entities, including buildings and deployables. Up to 2,814 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Where is Aqua Staging Branch located?
No region is published by Aqua Staging Branch. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 45.92.36.78:28045.
Which Rust version is Aqua Staging Branch on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 169070 is the version Aqua Staging Branch runs on Windows. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.
Wipe times
What is the wipe schedule on Aqua Staging Branch?
The record of Aqua Staging Branch's wipes is still too thin to show 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. 14 days 10 hours is when the present world was made.
The rules
Which map does Aqua Staging Branch run?
A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 1337 is what Aqua Staging Branch runs, made by the game. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map. On the map name: staging.aquarust.co.uk.
What are the rules and settings on Aqua Staging Branch?
Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on Aqua Staging Branch. quad is the group rule, capping teams at 4 players. It runs survival, gather, build and raid, as standard. Raids and PvP are both on the table. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. Carbon plugins power it. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.
Join up
How do I join Aqua Staging Branch?
Enter client.connect 45.92.36.78:28045 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically. For more, see https://aquarust.co.uk/map_preview.php.