The server's own banner, as it publishes it
Exhibit no. 15,098Acc. 2026.15098
[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red
Rust server · in the archive since 13 September 2026
Offline 51.81.166.171:28016 checked 13d ago
The timeline
Wipes
Every wipe on record as a dated marker, the force wipes among them, and the wipes expected next. Newest first in the record below.
13 Sep Last seen 29 Sep08:18 5 Nov19:00 · FW 3 Dec19:00 · FW
a wipe on recordthe monthly force wipeexpectedlast seen, 15 Oct 2026, 15:05 UTCAll times UTC.
The record of each wipe
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Tue 29 Sep 202608:18 UTC30d ago
- Peak
- 1
- Crowd
- –
- Lasted
- running
- Players before
- 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.
The rhythm
Wipe schedule
force wipes only
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 10h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 7d 10hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 35d 10hThu 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.
The record
Population, performance and rank
Kept in folders: players every five minutes, every hour and every day; the server answering for itself; its rank among every server ranked.
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.
Related exhibits
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Visitors' questions about this exhibit
Quick answers
Answered from the figures on this page.
Tags, lists
Who runs [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
A playrust.com hostname is published by [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red and by 124 other servers we track, which points to the same operator.
What do the server tags on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red mean?
These tags from [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red, read by the game's server browser, are: 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): This server runs standard Rust survival; mp500 (Max players): The server holds 500 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default the game ships; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game has to be on protocol 2634; cs166146 (Build): This server runs game build 166146; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): The region code field is empty; ^m (Monthly): On a monthly schedule the server wipes with Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's release, unchanged: rates, kits and rules stand as shipped; ^t (Tutorial on): Facepunch's tutorial is open to new players here; sc2 (Custom tag): The owner or a plugin applied this tag, which is outside the standard Rust set; ^x (Unknown flag): This flag has no entry in Facepunch's documentation. Shown at the top of this page are the current players, the queue and the world's age, also taken from the tags.
Which Rust Server History lists and filters include [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
The Rust Server History lists that feature [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red are: Rust tutorial servers: the record, Official Rust servers: the record, North America Rust servers and The vanilla Rust servers on record. 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.
The record
Which version of Rust does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red run?
The recorded build for [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red is Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166146 on Windows. Steam updates your game for you; joining needs the same protocol.
Is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red online, and how reliable is it?
[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red was last seen 13 days 17 hours ago and is offline right now. Of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, 0 were up: 0% of the time. First seen by Rust Server History on 13 September 2026.
Where is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red located?
No region tag is published by [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red, but its name points to North America. Rust Server History does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You can reach it at 51.81.166.171:28016.
Wipe log
What does wipe day look like on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew an average of 1 players. At 10 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak.
What is the wipe schedule on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
Once a month [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red wipes, with the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. Made 30 days ago, the current world is what it runs now. The tags list a monthly wipe schedule.
Population
How does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red rank against other Rust servers?
The last seven days of player hours place [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red at #15,098, among the top 70% of all ranked servers.
How busy is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red is offline at present, having last been seen 13 days 17 hours ago.
Map and rules
What are the rules and settings on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
The name of [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red carries no gather rate. At 8 players, the group limit matches the game's default. Under game mode, the entry reads survival, gathering, building and raiding: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players are permitted. The in-game Official tab of Rust lists it. Vanilla is its own description: facepunch's release, unchanged: rates, kits and rules stand as shipped. VAC from Valve is switched on.
Which map does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red run?
A procedural map of size 2,500 with seed 4575464 is what [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red runs, generated by the game. From this page you can view the map on RustMaps: the same size and seed give the same map.
Join record
How do I join [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
Enter client.connect 51.81.166.171:28016 in the console, opened with F1 in Rust. Launch Rust and join on this page also works: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
The label explained
Server tags
What each tag this server publishes means.
Published as mp500,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs166146,sc2,^x,ts8
On Rust Server History
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.