Staging Server
Offline 94.30.173.229:28025 checked 26d 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. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 60% 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.
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.
Server tags
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Staging Server?
These Rust Pop Watch lists include Staging Server: Community servers, by the numbers. These are the filters that list it 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 Server mean?
These are the tags Staging Server publishes for the browser: gmvanilla (Game mode): This is vanilla survival; mp1 (Max players): Slots: 1; 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; cs166452 (Build): The game build is 166452; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region is listed. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.
The players
How does Staging Server rank against other Rust servers?
A seven-day player-hours placing of #14,254 puts Staging Server in the top 60% of all ranked servers.
How many players are on Staging Server right now?
Staging Server went quiet 26 days 15 hours ago and is offline at the moment.
About the server
Is Staging Server online, and how reliable is it?
Down at the moment: Staging Server was last seen 26 days 15 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 30 September 2026.
Where is Staging Server located?
There is no region from Staging Server. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 94.30.173.229:28025.
Which Rust version is Staging Server on?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166452 is the version Staging Server runs on Windows. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
The wipe schedule
What is the wipe schedule on Staging Server?
The record of Staging Server'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. 27 days 6 hours is when the present world was made.
Map and rules
What are the rules and settings on Staging Server?
The name of Staging Server says nothing about gather rate. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. It runs survival, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Players can raid and fight one another. Community is its listing in the server browser. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.
Getting in
How do I join Staging Server?
The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 94.30.173.229:28025. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.