[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red
Offline 51.81.166.171:28016 checked 12d ago
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 8d 22h. The force wipe · high confidence
- wipe-day peak
- 1players, last three wipes
Coming wipes
- in 8d 22hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- in 36d 22hThu 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, 10 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
29 SEP 2026Tue 29 Sep, 08:18 UTC28d 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.
Rules and settings
On [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red, which rules and settings apply?
You will find no gather rate in the name of [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red. The default group limit of 8 players applies. The server runs survival, gather, build and raid: the standard game. Combat and raiding between players are possible. The in-game Official tab lists it. The server describes itself as vanilla: filed under vanilla: Facepunch's game, unaltered. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What is the map on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
Generated by the game, the procedural map of [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red has size 2,500 and seed 4575464. The map can be seen on RustMaps from this page, because the same size and seed give the same map.
Tags
On Rust Server Index, which lists and filters carry [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
Filed under these Rust Server Index lists is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red: Tutorial servers, Official Rust servers, North American Rust servers and Vanilla Rust servers. It appears under the following filters 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.
Which operator stands behind [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
A playrust.com hostname is published by [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red, and by 124 other servers we track; the same operator most likely runs them.
How should you read the tags listed for [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
Filed under these tags, as published by [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red and 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): Rust survival, as standard; mp500 (Max players): The queue ceiling sits at 500; ts8 (Group limit): Game default applies: teams of up to 8; v2634 (Protocol): The protocol is 2634; older or newer clients cannot join; cs166146 (Build): It runs build 166146; ptrak (Networking): Networking runs on RakNet, the game's default layer; $r? (Region code): The region code field is left empty; ^m (Monthly): It wipes monthly with the force wipe from Facepunch; ^v (Vanilla): Filed under vanilla: Facepunch's game, unaltered; ^t (Tutorial on): The Facepunch tutorial runs here for new players; sc2 (Custom tag): This one is not a standard Rust tag; an owner or plugin put it there; ^x (Unknown flag): No documentation from Facepunch covers this flag. Current players, queue length and when the world was made appear in the tags, set out at the top of this page.
Wipe schedule
What should you expect on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red when wipe day comes?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew 1 players on average. 10 hours into the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak.
Which wipe timetable does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red follow?
With the force wipe, [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red wipes once a month. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 28 days 12 hours is when its current world was made. Filed in its tags: a monthly wipe schedule.
Player counts
How is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red ranked compared with the rest?
Filed under rankings: #15,098 for [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red on seven-day player hours, top 70% overall.
Is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red quiet or crowded?
The last check found [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red offline, last seen 12 days 5 hours ago.
Server details
Which Rust build is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red running?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166146, on Windows, is what [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red runs. The protocol must match before you can join, and Steam takes care of updating it.
How reliable is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red, and is it online now?
The server is down at this moment; the last sighting of [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red was 12 days 5 hours ago. It was up 0 of 168 hours across the last 7 full days, or 0% of the time. On 13 September 2026 it was first seen by Rust Server Index.
Where in the world is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red hosted?
[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red gives no region tag, so the name is the only pointer, and it points to North America. No lookup of the machine's position is made by Rust Server Index; it shows where the server says it is. Connection details: 51.81.166.171:28016.
Connecting
What steps lead onto [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
If you would rather use the console, press F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 51.81.166.171:28016. You can also choose Launch Rust and join here; that opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
Server tags
What each one means.
Published as mp500,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs166146,sc2,^x,ts8
On Rust Server Index
Game
gmrust
mp500
ts8
v2634
cs166146
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Difficulty
^v
Gameplay
^t
Other
sc2
^x
Players now (cp), the queue (qp) and the wipe time (born) are in the tag string too; they change every few minutes and are shown at the top of the page. Flag meanings are Facepunch's.