Players now
- Full
- 0%
- In queue
- 0
- Peak, 48 hours
- –
- Peak, 7 days
- –
0% full
Rank
top 70%
7-day average
peak –
Last wipe
monthly schedule
Next wipe
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
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
daily · 1 is bestTop 70% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 4h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 7d 4hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 35d 4hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
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
newest first| 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- 1 57/ 200
- 2 39/ 200
- 3 21/ 225
- 4 15/ 200
- 5 21/ 150
- 6 24/ 200
Quick answers
from the figures on this pageServer
Is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue online, and how reliable is it?
We last saw [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue 13 days 23 hours ago. It is offline at the moment. The last 7 full days show 0% uptime, with 0 hours up out of 168. Rust Dashboard logged it for the first time on 13 September 2026.
Which version of Rust does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue run?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166100 is running on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue, which sits on Windows. Steam keeps your game updated, so it will be on the same protocol and able to join.
Where is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue located?
The name of [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue points to North America, but no region tag is published. The location shown at Rust Dashboard is the one the server states; no lookup of the machine's position happens. 51.81.166.171:28018 is where it lives.
Lists
Which Rust Dashboard lists and filters include [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
The Rust Dashboard lists that carry [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue are: North American Rust servers, Rust tutorial servers, live, Official Rust servers and Vanilla Rust servers. It appears under these filters when you browse 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.
Who runs [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
A playrust.com hostname is published by [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue, and by 124 other servers we track, so one operator most likely runs them all.
What do the server tags on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue mean?
These are the tags [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue publishes, read by the game's server browser: 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): The game runs on standard Rust survival settings; mp500 (Max players): It holds 500 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game's own limit of 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): Your game needs to be on the same version, protocol 2634, to get in; cs166100 (Build): Build 166100 is what it runs; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the standard network layer for the game, and it is what runs here; $r? (Region code): The region code is blank; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, together with the force wipe from Facepunch; ^v (Vanilla): This is the game as Facepunch ships it: rates, kits and rules unchanged; ^t (Tutorial on): The Facepunch tutorial is open to new players here; sc2 (Custom tag): You will not find this among the standard Rust tags: a plugin or the owner set it; ^x (Unknown flag): No entry exists in Facepunch's documentation for this flag. The tags also carry the current player count, the queue and when the world was made, all shown at the top of this page.
Population
How busy is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
The last sighting of [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue was 13 days 23 hours ago; it is offline right now.
How does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue rank against other Rust servers?
Player hours over seven days put [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue at #15,098, in the top 70% of all ranked servers.
Wipe days
What does wipe day look like on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew 1 players on average. Peak crowd on the latest wipe came 19 hours after it began.
What is the wipe schedule on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
The only wipe on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue is the monthly force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, and that is its next wipe. The world now in play was generated 30 days 15 hours ago. Wipes are listed as monthly in its tags.
Settings
What are the rules and settings on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
You will not find a gather rate in the name of [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue. The group limit is 8 players, which is the game's default. survival is the mode here, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. You can fight other players and raid their bases. It sits in the Official tab inside Rust. Vanilla is the label it uses: this is the game as Facepunch ships it: rates, kits and rules unchanged. Valve's VAC anti-cheat runs here.
Which map does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue run?
The game generates the procedural map on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue, size 2,500 with seed 5346364. This page links to RustMaps, where the map looks the same for its size and seed.
Join
How do I join [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
Type client.connect 51.81.166.171:28018 in the Rust console, which F1 opens. Launch Rust on this page also works: Steam opens Rust and connects you.
