[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red
Offline 51.81.166.171:28016 checked 13d 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 70% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 16h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
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 UTC29d 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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Tags
Who runs [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
The same operator most likely runs [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red and 124 other servers we track, since all publish a playrust.com hostname.
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red: Rust tutorial servers, Official Rust servers, watched, North America: who's hot right now and Vanilla Rust servers, live. It appears under these filters on the server list: 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.
What do the server tags on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red mean?
For the server browser, [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red lists these tags: 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, standard Rust style; mp500 (Max players): There are 500 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2634 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2634; cs166146 (Build): Game build: 166146; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it; ^t (Tutorial on): The Facepunch tutorial is on offer for new players; sc2 (Custom tag): Standard Rust tags don't include this one: a plugin or the owner set it; ^x (Unknown flag): Facepunch's docs say nothing about this flag. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.
Player counts
How does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red rank against other Rust servers?
A seven-day player-hours placing of #15,098 puts [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red in the top 70% of all ranked servers.
How many players are on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red right now?
[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red went quiet 13 days 11 hours ago and is offline at the moment.
Server details
Is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red online, and how reliable is it?
The server [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red is not online now; 13 days 11 hours have passed since it was last seen. It was up 0% of the time over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours in total. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.
Where is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red located?
No region tag comes from [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red, but its name points to North America. 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 51.81.166.171:28016.
Which Rust version is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red on?
On Windows, [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166146. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.
Wipe days
What happens on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red when wipe day comes around?
The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 1 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 10 hours in.
What is the wipe schedule on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. The world it is running now dates from 29 days 17 hours. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.
The rules
Which map does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red run?
Generated by the game with seed 4575464, the map on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red is procedural and 2,500 in size. 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 [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. gather, build and raid, as standard: that is the survival mode. Raids and PvP are both on the table. The in-game Official tab is where it lives. It labels itself vanilla, with this meaning: nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.
How to join
How do I join [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
Enter client.connect 51.81.166.171:28016 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically.