[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue
Key statistics
the figures behind the quote- Players now
- 0/ 500 0% full
- Change · 24h
- ▪+0 no reading a day ago
- 7-day average
- 0 peak 1
- Rank
- #9,328 top 42%
- Rank · 7d ago
- #6,555 ▼2773 places down
- Last wipe
- 14d ago monthly schedule
- Next wipe
- 22d 23h Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
- Group limit
- 8 8, the default
- Gather rate
- – no rate in the name
- Score
- 7 player hours, last seven days
- Map
- 2500 Procedural Map · seed 5346364
- First seen
- 13 Sep 2026 nexus_us_blue.playrust.com
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC. Busiest hour of the two days: 1 players.
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 42% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
force wipes only- wipe-day peak
- 1 players, last three wipes
Coming wipes
- 22d 23hThu 5 Nov, 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 UTC14d 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| # | Server | Last | Chg 24h | Players over the last 24 hours24h |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rusty Moose |US Monthly|NA · groups of 12+ · monthly · 348 on average | 279/300 | ▼−93−25.0% | |
| 2 | Rustopia.gg - US LargeNA · groups of 16+ · monthly · 216 on average | 204/225 | ▼−35−14.5% | |
| 3 | Rusty Moose |US Small|NA · groups of 8+ · monthly · 205 on average | 133/200 | ▼−76−36.4% | |
| 4 | Rustoria.co - US Long PremiumNA · groups of 14+ · monthly · 200 on average | 127/200 | ▼−71−35.9% | |
| 5 | Rustafied.com - US Long - LargeNA · groups of 16+ · monthly · 152 on average | 132/175 | ▼−32−19.6% | |
| 6 | RustLands | Monthly Large | No BP Wipe | NOOB FRIENDLYNA · groups of 50+ · monthly · 130 on average | 73/225 | ▼−45−38.3% |
Quick answers
from the figures on this pageServer Rules
How is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue configured in terms of rules and settings?
No gather rate appears in the name of [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue. Groups can contain a maximum of 8 players, the default for the game. survival is the mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. Rust's in-game Official tab includes this server. Vanilla is its own label: facepunch's build, untouched: no rate changes, no kits, no rule changes. VAC is active.
Which map is played on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
The map on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue is procedural, size 2,500, with seed 5346364, and generated by the game. The map is reproducible from its size and seed; RustMaps shows it from this page.
Population
What position does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue hold in the server rankings?
In the top 42% of all ranked servers, [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue is #9,328 on player hours over the last seven days.
What is the population on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
On [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue, 0 players are in now, out of 500 slots. The mean over the last seven days is 0 players, reaching 1 at its highest. Over the last 48 hours, the peak hour was 01:00 UTC, averaging 0 players.
Wipe Schedule
How does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue handle wipe day?
An average of 1 players marked the busiest point of its recent wipes. On the latest wipe, 19 hours after the wipe, the crowd peaked.
On what cycle does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue wipe?
A single monthly wipe is what [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue runs: the force wipe. When every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, that is its next wipe. 14 days 19 hours ago the current world was created. The tags state monthly wipes.
Server Info
What is the server location for [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
Its name points to North America, but [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue publishes no region tag. The location shown by Rust Analytics is the one a server states; it does not verify the machine's position. 51.81.166.171:28018 is its address.
How is the performance on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
Average server fps for the last 48 hours is 59; the floor was 55. At its peak it held 30,837 entities: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Memory use peaked at 3,989 MB. What players feel as lag is low fps together with a rising entity count.
[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue runs which version of Rust?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166100 on Windows is what [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue runs. Your game needs the same protocol to get in; Steam takes care of the update.
Is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue up, and how consistent is its uptime?
Online at this moment: [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue. The reported uptime puts its last restart at about 14 days 17 hours ago. 100% is its uptime for the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours. The earliest Rust Analytics saw it was 13 September 2026.
Tags & Filters
What is the meaning of the tags on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
The game's server browser reads 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 in the standard Rust format; mp500 (Max players): Slot count: 500; ts8 (Group limit): At the game default, teams hold up to 8; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game needs protocol 2634; cs166100 (Build): Build 166100; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the network layer the game ships with; $r? (Region code): The region code is absent; ^m (Monthly): A single wipe each month, alongside Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's build, untouched: no rate changes, no kits, no rule changes; ^t (Tutorial on): The Facepunch tutorial is open to newcomers on this server; sc2 (Custom tag): The owner or a plugin added this; it is not part of the standard Rust tag set; ^x (Unknown flag): Not documented by Facepunch, which [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue publishes. The top of this page and the tags both show its players now, its queue and when its world was made.
Who is behind [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
The same operator most likely runs [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue and the 124 other servers we track that publish a playrust.com hostname.
[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue appears in which of the lists and filters on Rust Analytics?
On Rust Analytics, [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue matches these lists: Rust tutorial servers, by population, Official Rust servers, North America Rust servers and Vanilla Rust servers. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Vanilla and No plugins at all; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v and Tutorial on ^t; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Boxes: Official only.
Joining the Server
How can I connect to [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
The console route: start Rust, press F1, enter client.connect 51.81.166.171:28018. The page's Launch Rust button opens Rust through Steam and connects you instead.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished as mp500,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs166100,sc2,^x,ts8
On Rust Analytics
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.