[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue
Offline 51.81.166.171:28018 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 17h. 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, 19 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 28 Sep, 23:17 UTC30d 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 - Blue?
The same operator most likely runs [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue 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 - Blue?
These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue: Rust tutorial servers, Official Rust servers, watched, North America: who's hot right now and Vanilla Rust servers, live. These filters bring it up 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 - Blue mean?
The game's server browser picks up these tags from [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue: 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): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp500 (Max players): There are 500 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2634; cs166100 (Build): The game build is 166100; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $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): A plugin or the owner set this tag; it's not one of Rust's standard tags; ^x (Unknown flag): This flag has no entry in Facepunch's documentation. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.
The players
How does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue rank against other Rust servers?
A seven-day player-hours placing of #15,098 puts [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue in the top 70% of all ranked servers.
How many players are on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue right now?
Offline now, [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue was last spotted 13 days 10 hours ago.
Server details
Is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue online, and how reliable is it?
[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue shows as offline, last spotted 13 days 10 hours ago. 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 - Blue located?
No region tag comes from [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue, 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. Connect at 51.81.166.171:28018.
Which Rust version is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue on?
On Windows, [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166100. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.
Wipe times
What happens on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue when wipe day comes around?
Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 1 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 19 hours after it began.
What is the wipe schedule on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
Once a month is the whole wipe story for [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue, tied to the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives: its next wipe, and one that hits every Rust server. Its current world has been live for 30 days 2 hours. The tags hold a monthly wipe schedule.
The rules
Which map does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue run?
A procedural map of 2,500 with seed 5346364 is what [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue runs, made by the game. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
What are the rules and settings on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
The name of [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue says nothing about gather rate. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. It runs survival, gather, build and raid, as standard. Raids and PvP are both on the table. It sits in the Official tab in game. 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.
Join up
How do I join [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 51.81.166.171:28018. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.