Server profile
blaqs staging ground
Online, with 0 of 30 players on; ranked #15,341 of every public Rust server, the top 69%. It last wiped 85d ago.
Online 104.234.251.164:28015 checked 10m ago
The crowd
Players
Who is on it, hour by hour and day by day.
Source: every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Note: hourly average and peak, UTC.
Note: daily average and peak, UTC.
Under the hood
Server performance
Frames per second, entities and memory, asked of the server itself.
Note: 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.
The standings
Rank
Its place among every ranked server, day by day; 1 is best.
Note: Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
The wipe cycle
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The record
Wipes
Every wipe we saw, newest first.
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No wipe seen yet. | ||||
Note: 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.
If you like this one
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
The short version
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Wipe schedule
On what schedule does blaqs staging ground wipe?
The record of blaqs staging ground's wipes is too thin yet to show its rhythm. Next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, every Rust server, this one included, takes the monthly force wipe. 85 days 23 hours have passed since its current world was created.
About the server
Does blaqs staging ground hold a steady frame rate?
Server fps averaged 92 over 48 hours; the lowest reading was 62. At its highest the entity count reached 70,337: buildings, deployables and everything else. It drew as much as 3,571 MB of memory. What players feel as lag comes from low fps and an entity count on the rise.
On what version does blaqs staging ground currently run?
The Rust build is network protocol 2631 and build 158240, running on Windows, for blaqs staging ground. The same protocol is required to join, and Steam takes care of updating it.
Has blaqs staging ground stayed online, and is it up now?
blaqs staging ground is currently reachable and online. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 6 days 22 hours ago. It spent 167 of the last 7 full days' 168 hours up, 99% of the time. The first record Rust Insights has of it is 13 September 2026.
What location is listed for blaqs staging ground?
There is no region published for blaqs staging ground. Rust Insights reports the location a server declares, not the physical place of the machine. 104.234.251.164:28015 is where it answers.
Tags
Which meanings sit behind the tags on blaqs staging ground?
The tags gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp30 (Max players): It holds 30 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 to a team, which is the default the game ships with; v2631 (Protocol): Matching versions are required, and the protocol is 2631; cs158240 (Build): The game build is 158240; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard; $r? (Region code): A region code has not been set; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework, Oxide (uMod), is in use; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it is filed under Modded are what blaqs staging ground publishes, and the server browser in the game reads them. Current players, queue length and the age of the world sit in the tags as well, shown at the top of this page.
On which Rust Insights lists does blaqs staging ground appear?
These Rust Insights lists include blaqs staging ground: Modded Rust servers, explained. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
Player counts
How many players are on blaqs staging ground right now, and how does that number move?
Of its 30 slots, blaqs staging ground currently has 0 filled. Its average over seven days comes to 0 players.
How does blaqs staging ground compare with other Rust servers in the ranking?
Player hours over seven days put blaqs staging ground at #15,341, within the top 69% of the ranked field.
Settings and rules
What are the settings and rules for blaqs staging ground?
The name of blaqs staging ground does not state a gather rate. Groups can reach 8 players, which is the default in the game. You get survival as the game mode, the standard game: gather, build, raid. PvP and raiding are both enabled. Plugins or settings change the game, so it sits under Modded in the browser. Plugins: Oxide run here. VAC is on: Valve's anti-cheat is active.
Which map is live on blaqs staging ground?
blaqs staging ground runs a procedural map of size 3,500 with seed 648252, generated by the game. The same size and seed produce the same map, so from this page you can look at it on RustMaps.
Join
How can you get onto blaqs staging ground?
Type client.connect 104.234.251.164:28015 into the console, which you open with F1 in Rust. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same job by opening Rust through Steam.