[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue
Offline 51.81.166.171:28018 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 23h. The force wipe · high confidence
- wipe-day peak
- 1players, last three wipes
Coming wipes
- in 8d 23hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- in 36d 23hThu 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
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
28 SEP 2026Mon 28 Sep, 23:17 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.
Map and rules
Where can you read the rules and settings that apply on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
The name of [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue does not state a gather rate. 8 players per group is the default limit. The server runs survival, gather, build and raid: the standard game. Combat and raiding between players are possible. Rust's Official tab includes it. Its own label is vanilla: filed under vanilla: Facepunch's game, unaltered. VAC is on: Valve's anti-cheat is enabled.
What is the map on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
Size 2,500, seed 5346364: the game generates the procedural map on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue. The map can be seen on RustMaps from this page, because the same size and seed give the same map.
Lists and filters
On Rust Server Index, which lists and filters carry [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
Filed under these Rust Server Index lists is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue: 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.
Whose server is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue publishes a playrust.com hostname, as do 124 other servers we track, which points to one operator for them all.
How should you read the tags listed for [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
These are the tags [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue publishes; the game's server browser reads this list: 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 on standard Rust rules; mp500 (Max players): The queue ceiling sits at 500; ts8 (Group limit): The team limit is 8, as in the standard game; v2634 (Protocol): Joining needs you on game protocol 2634; cs166100 (Build): Build on file: 166100; 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): Set outside Rust's standard tags, by the owner or through a plugin; ^x (Unknown flag): Facepunch leaves this flag undocumented. The top of this page shows three items from the tags: players at present, queue and world creation time.
Wipes and resets
What should you expect on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue when wipe day comes?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew 1 players on average. 19 hours into the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak.
How often is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue wiped, and on what schedule?
The only wipe on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue is the monthly force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes its next wipe: the force wipe, taken by every Rust server. The world it runs now was made 28 days 20 hours. Filed in its tags: a monthly wipe schedule.
Player counts
How is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue ranked compared with the rest?
Filed under rankings: #15,098 for [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue on seven-day player hours, top 70% overall.
What does the player count on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue look like?
At present [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue is offline; its last sighting was 12 days 4 hours ago.
Server facts
What version does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue use?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166100, on Windows, is what [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue runs. The protocol must match before you can join, and Steam takes care of updating it.
Is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue reachable, and does it stay up?
The server is down at this moment; the last sighting of [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue was 12 days 4 hours ago. Uptime for the last 7 full days came to 0%, 0 hours out of 168. It was first recorded by Rust Server Index on 13 September 2026.
Which region is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue in?
The name of [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue points to North America, though no region tag is published. No lookup of the machine's position is made by Rust Server Index; it shows where the server says it is. You will reach it at 51.81.166.171:28018.
Joining the server
What is the way onto [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
Enter client.connect 51.81.166.171:28018 in the console, opened with F1. Or join on this page with Launch Rust, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
Server tags
What each one means.
Published as mp500,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs166100,sc2,^x,ts8
On Rust Server Index
Game
gmrust
mp500
ts8
v2634
cs166100
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.