Server profile
[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red
Offline, with 0 of 500 players on; ranked #15,098 of every public Rust server, the top 70%. It last wiped 30d ago.
Offline 51.81.166.171:28016 checked 13d 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 70% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
The wipe cycle
Wipe schedule
Force wipes only.
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 7h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 7d 7hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 35d 7hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
The first 48 hours of its last wipesPlayers each hour, from the hour of the wipe
Note: players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 10 hours in.
The record
Wipes
Every wipe we saw, newest first.
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 29 Sep, 08:18 UTC30d ago | 1 | – | running | 0 |
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.
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The short version
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Wipe schedule
What does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red look like once wipe day arrives?
Recent wipes peaked at 1 players on average. The peak crowd on this wipe came 10 hours after it started.
On what schedule does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red wipe?
Each month [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red wipes, and only with the force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. 30 days 2 hours have passed since its current world was created. The tags put wipes at monthly.
About the server
Which Rust version is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red on?
Running on Windows, [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red is on Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166146. The same protocol is required to join, and Steam takes care of updating it.
How reliable is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red, and is it up at the moment?
The last sighting of [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red was 13 days 20 hours ago, and it is offline at present. It spent 0 of the last 7 full days' 168 hours up, 0% of the time. Rust Insights first logged this server on 13 September 2026.
Where does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red run from?
[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red publishes no region tag, but North America is where its name points. The location shown on Rust Insights is the one a server states, not a lookup of where the machine sits. Connect through 51.81.166.171:28016.
Lists and tags
What is meant by each tag on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
The 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 as standard Rust plays; mp500 (Max players): The slot count is 500; ts8 (Group limit): 8 to a team, which is the default the game ships with; v2634 (Protocol): Matching versions are required, and the protocol is 2634; cs166146 (Build): The game build is 166146; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network layer, as it does by default; $r? (Region code): A region code has not been set; ^m (Monthly): Facepunch's force wipe sets the rhythm: one wipe a month; ^v (Vanilla): Nothing is changed from Facepunch's release: no altered rates, kits or rules; ^t (Tutorial on): The tutorial from Facepunch gives new players a start here; sc2 (Custom tag): Owners and plugins can add tags, and this is one; it is not standard Rust; ^x (Unknown flag): This flag has no entry in Facepunch's documentation are what [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red publishes, and the server browser in the game reads them. The tags also hold the current player count, the queue and when the world was created, all of which appear at the top of this page.
Who is behind [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red and 124 other servers we track all publish a playrust.com hostname, so the same operator most likely runs them.
On which Rust Insights lists does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red appear?
The Rust Insights lists that carry [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red are Rust servers running the tutorial, Official Rust servers, listed, North American Rust servers and Vanilla Rust servers. You will find it on the server list by applying these filters: 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.
Player counts
How many players are on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red right now?
[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red is offline at the moment; the last sighting was 13 days 20 hours ago.
Where does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red sit in the rankings?
The player-hours ranking for the last seven days puts [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red at #15,098, among the top 70% of all ranked servers.
Map and rules
What are the settings and rules for [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
The name of [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red does not state a gather rate. No group limit is set, so the game's default of 8 players applies. survival is the game mode, the standard game: gather, build, raid. PvP and raiding are both enabled. Rust's in-game Official tab lists this server. The server describes itself as vanilla, meaning nothing is changed from Facepunch's release: no altered rates, kits or rules. The server has Valve's VAC anti-cheat switched on.
Which map is live on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
Size 2,500 and seed 4575464 define the procedural map on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red, generated by the game. You can look at the map on RustMaps from this page, since the same size and seed produce the same map.
Connecting
What is the way to join [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
To connect, start Rust and enter client.connect 51.81.166.171:28016 in the console (F1). Or join through Launch Rust on this page, which opens Rust via Steam and connects you.