The server's own banner, as it publishes it
Exhibit no. 15,098Acc. 2026.15098
[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue
Rust server · in the archive since 13 September 2026
Offline 51.81.166.171:28018 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 28 Sep23:17 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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Mon 28 Sep 202623:17 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 8h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 7d 8hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 35d 8hThu 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.
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 - Blue?
The same operator most likely runs [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue and 124 other servers we track, as all publish a playrust.com hostname.
What do the server tags on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue mean?
These tags from [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue, 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): The game default caps teams at 8; v2634 (Protocol): The server runs game protocol 2634; matching it is required to join; cs166100 (Build): The game build is 166100; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network layer, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): Facepunch's force wipe falls on this server, and a wipe comes once a month; ^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): Standard Rust does not define this tag; the owner or a plugin added it; ^x (Unknown flag): No Facepunch documentation covers this flag. 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 - Blue?
These Rust Server History lists include [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue: 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.
Server entry
Which version of Rust does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue run?
The recorded build for [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue is Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166100 on Windows. The protocol must match to join, and Steam handles that update.
Is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue online, and how reliable is it?
The record shows [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue offline at this moment, last seen 13 days 19 hours ago. 0 of 168 hours, or 0% of the time, over the last 7 full days. 13 September 2026 is when Rust Server History first saw it.
Where is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue located?
The name of [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue points to North America, but no region tag is published. Rust Server History does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Its entry gives 51.81.166.171:28018 as the address.
Wipe log
What does wipe day look like on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
1 players on average was the busiest its recent wipes drew. 19 hours into the latest wipe the crowd peaked.
What is the wipe schedule on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue wipes with the force wipe, once a month. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. The world it runs now dates from 30 days 11 hours ago. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
Player counts
How does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue rank against other Rust servers?
Over seven days of player hours, [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue ranks #15,098, inside the top 70% of all ranked servers.
How busy is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
No current count exists for [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue; it was last seen 13 days 19 hours ago.
Rules, map
What are the rules and settings on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
The name of [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue 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. PvP and raiding are enabled. It appears in Rust's Official tab in game. The server applies the label vanilla: facepunch's release, unchanged: rates, kits and rules stand as shipped. VAC from Valve is switched on.
Which map does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue run?
A procedural map of size 2,500 with seed 5346364 is what [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue runs, generated by the game. One size and seed produce one map, which RustMaps can show you from this page.
How to join
How do I join [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Blue?
Enter client.connect 51.81.166.171:28018 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,cs166100,sc2,^x,ts8
On Rust Server History
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.