Online EU 104.129.132.27:28120 checked 9m ago
A Rust Staging Server
By the numbersMatch stats
against its 50 slotsThe story of the match
Players, performance and rank, hour by hour and day by day.
CrowdPlayers
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
FitnessServer 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. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
FormRank
daily · 1 is bestTop 26% of all ranked servers, top 63% in EU. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
FixturesWipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipeThursday 5 November, 19:00 UTCin 6d 16h The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 6d 16hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 34d 16hThu 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 13, 21 hours in.
ResultsWipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 29 Oct, 01:07 UTC1d ago | – | – | running | 0 |
| Wed 21 Oct, 18:30 UTC8d ago | 13 | halved by day 1 | 7.3 days | 0 |
| Sat 17 Oct, 07:38 UTC12d ago | 0 | – | 4.5 days | 0 |
| Sat 17 Oct, 00:28 UTC13d ago | 0 | – | 0.3 days | 0 |
| Wed 14 Oct, 23:21 UTC15d ago | 3 | halved by day 1 | 2 days | 0 |
| Mon 5 Oct, 20:08 UTC24d ago | 0 | – | 9.1 days | 0 |
| Wed 30 Sep, 19:57 UTC29d ago | 14 | halved by day 1 | 5 days | 0 |
| Wed 23 Sep, 19:57 UTC36d ago | 6 | halved by day 1 | 7 days | 0 |
| Wed 23 Sep, 10:22 UTC36d ago | 6 | – | 0.4 days | 0 |
| Tue 22 Sep, 21:25 UTC37d ago | 6 | – | 0.5 days | 0 |
| Thu 17 Sep, 01:57 UTC43d ago | 6 | halved by day 1 | 5.8 days | 0 |
| Fri 4 Sep, 09:14 UTC55d ago | – | – | 12.7 days | 0 |
| Thu 3 Sep, 07:12 UTC56d ago | – | – | 1.1 days | 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.
Operator and location
Is A Rust Staging Server online, and how reliable is it?
The lights are on at A Rust Staging Server: online as you read this. 167 of 168 hours were up over the last 7 full days, 99% of the time. Rust Player Stats logged it for the first time on 13 September 2026.
Which Rust version is A Rust Staging Server on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux: that is the setup at A Rust Staging Server. Steam updates your game for you, but the protocol has to match to join.
Where is A Rust Staging Server located?
Its EU tag places A Rust Staging Server in Europe. Where the machine physically stands is not looked up by Rust Player Stats; it shows only what the server states. The address you connect to is 104.129.132.27:28120.
Server tags
What do the server tags on A Rust Staging Server mean?
gmrust (Game mode): The standard Rust survival rules apply here; mp50 (Max players): The cap is 50 slots; ts16 (Group limit): No more than 16 to a team; v2635 (Protocol): Your game must be on protocol 2635 to get in; cs168909 (Build): The game build here is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard one; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^m (Monthly): The wipe comes once a month, with the force wipe from Facepunch; ^v (Vanilla): The game as shipped by Facepunch, with rates, kits and rules untouched; ^p (PvE): No player fights: the world is the danger; ^o (Oxide): It uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): The game changes here through plugins or settings, so it's listed under Modded; EU (Europe): The server browser files it under Europe are the tags A Rust Staging Server publishes, and the game's server browser reads them. The tags carry more besides: present players, queue length and when the world was made, all displayed at the top of this page.
Which Rust Player Stats lists and filters include A Rust Staging Server?
The Rust Player Stats lists that include A Rust Staging Server are: EU Rust servers, live, Modded Rust servers, live and Best Rust PvE servers (2026). These filters on the server list bring it up: Region: Europe; Type: Vanilla and Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 3 days.
Rules and settings
What are the rules and settings on A Rust Staging Server?
The name of A Rust Staging Server does not say what the gather rate is. Groups top out at 16 players. It plays as pve, no player-versus-player fighting. Under Modded in the server browser: the game is changed by plugins or settings. Oxide plugins are running. The word it uses is vanilla: the game as shipped by Facepunch, with rates, kits and rules untouched. VAC is off, so Valve's anti-cheat is not watching.
Population
What is the population on A Rust Staging Server at the moment?
Out of 50 slots, 0 are taken on A Rust Staging Server at this moment. Averaged across seven days: 0 players. The high point: 10. It drew its biggest crowd of the last 48 hours at 01:00 UTC: 5 players on average.
Where does A Rust Staging Server sit in the rankings?
In Europe it is #1,843, and #5,746 on seven-day player hours, in the top 26% of all ranked servers: A Rust Staging Server.
Wipe timing
What is the wipe schedule on A Rust Staging Server?
With the force wipe, A Rust Staging Server wipes once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe comes, and that is its next wipe, when every Rust server wipes. The world it runs now was made 24 hours ago. Its tags carry a monthly wipe schedule.
What does wipe day look like on A Rust Staging Server?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew 4 players on average. 21 hours after the wipe, the crowd peaked on the latest wipe. Half that peak was held until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. By day 1, it had fallen below half when it didn't hold.
How to join
How do I join A Rust Staging Server?
Press F1 in Rust, bring up the console and enter client.connect 104.129.132.27:28120. The Launch Rust button here does the same, opening Rust via Steam and connecting you.
GlossaryServer tags
what each one meansPublished as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^p,^m,^v,EU,gmrust,cs168909,ts16,^o^z
Game
gmrust
mp50
ts16
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Difficulty
^v
Gameplay
^p
Mods and access
^o
^z
Region
EU
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.