Offline 159.196.83.189:28015 checked 27d ago
Staging Server
By the numbersMatch stats
against its 5 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 53% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
FixturesWipe schedule
too few wipes seen yetNot enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 2 hours in.
ResultsWipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 04:43 UTC27d ago | 3 | – | running | 1 |
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 Staging Server online, and how reliable is it?
Down at the moment, Staging Server was last seen 27 days 17 hours ago. 0% of the time over the last 7 full days, which is 0 of 168 hours up. On 30 September 2026, Rust Player Stats saw it for the first time.
Which Rust version is Staging Server on?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166452 on Windows: that is the setup at Staging Server. Steam updates your game for you, but the protocol has to match to join.
Where is Staging Server located?
No region is published by Staging Server. What a server says about itself is what Rust Player Stats shows; no check is made of where the machine actually stands. You will find it at 159.196.83.189:28015.
Tags
What do the server tags on Staging Server mean?
gmvanilla (Game mode): Survival, vanilla style; mp5 (Max players): Slot count: 5; ts8 (Group limit): The default 8 per team applies here; v2634 (Protocol): Game protocol 2634: join only if your game matches that version; cs166452 (Build): The game build here is 166452; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard one; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank are the tags Staging Server publishes, and the game's server browser reads them. You will also find its current players, its queue and the age of its world in the tags, shown at the top of this page.
Which Rust Player Stats lists and filters include Staging Server?
You will find Staging Server on the following Rust Player Stats lists: Community servers, ranked live. Searching the server list with these filters returns it: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
Server rules
Which map is running on Staging Server?
The game generates the procedural map on Staging Server.
What are the rules and settings on Staging Server?
Nothing in the name of Staging Server states a gather rate. The cap is 8 players per group, the game's default. survival, build, gather and raid in the standard game. You can fight and raid other players here. Community is its server browser category. Anti-cheat is on: VAC.
Population
How full is Staging Server right now?
The board shows Staging Server offline, last seen 27 days 17 hours ago.
Where does Staging Server sit in the rankings?
The last seven days put Staging Server at #12,590 on player hours: top 53% of all ranked servers.
Wipe schedule
What is the wipe schedule on Staging Server?
To tell its rhythm, more of Staging Server's wipes need to be on record. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe lands, and every Rust server wipes. 27 days 19 hours ago, its current world was made.
What does wipe day look like on Staging Server?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew 3 players on average. The crowd reached its peak 2 hours after the latest wipe.
Connect
How do I join Staging Server?
In the Rust console (F1) type client.connect 159.196.83.189:28015. Alternatively, Launch Rust on this page opens Rust through Steam and drops you straight in.
GlossaryServer tags
what each one meansPublished as mp5,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmvanilla,cs166452,ts8
Game
gmvanilla
mp5
ts8
v2634
cs166452
ptrak
$r?
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.