Offline 51.81.166.171:28016 checked 13d ago
[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red
By the numbersMatch stats
against its 500 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, measured since 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
FormRank
daily · 1 is bestTop 70% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
FixturesWipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipeThursday 5 November, 19:00 UTCin 7d 6h The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 7d 6hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 35d 6hThu 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.
ResultsWipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 29 Sep, 08:18 UTC30d 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.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Operator and location
Is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red online, and how reliable is it?
Offline right now, with a last sighting 13 days 21 hours ago: [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red. 0 of 168 hours were up over the last 7 full days, 0% of the time. On 13 September 2026, Rust Player Stats saw it for the first time.
Which Rust version is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red on?
Windows carries Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166146 at [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red. Same protocol or no entry: your game must match, and Steam keeps it updated for you.
Where is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red located?
Nothing in the tags places [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red, but its name points to North America. What a server says about itself is what Rust Player Stats shows; no check is made of where the machine actually stands. 51.81.166.171:28016 is the address.
Tags
What do the server tags on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red mean?
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): The standard Rust survival rules apply here; mp500 (Max players): Slot count: 500; ts8 (Group limit): The default 8 per team applies here; v2634 (Protocol): Game protocol 2634: join only if your game matches that version; cs166146 (Build): It runs game build 166146; ptrak (Networking): Standard network layer RakNet is in use; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, timed to Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): The game as shipped by Facepunch, with rates, kits and rules untouched; ^t (Tutorial on): The tutorial from Facepunch is open to new players; sc2 (Custom tag): The owner or a plugin added this non-standard tag; ^x (Unknown flag): No documentation from Facepunch covers this flag are the tags [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red 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.
Who runs [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
One operator most likely runs [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red and the 124 other servers we track that share its playrust.com hostname.
Which Rust Player Stats lists and filters include [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
The Rust Player Stats lists that include [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red are: Official Rust servers, ranked live, Rust tutorial servers, North America Rust servers and Vanilla Rust servers. These filters on the server list bring it up: 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 rules
Which map is running on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red runs a game-generated procedural map: size 2,500, seed 4575464. Same size, same seed, same map, so RustMaps shows it from this page.
What are the rules and settings on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
The name of [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red does not say what the gather rate is. Groups top out at 8 players, the default for the game. gather, build, raid: the standard game: that is the survival game mode. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The in-game Official tab is where it is listed. The word it uses is vanilla: the game as shipped by Facepunch, with rates, kits and rules untouched. Anti-cheat is on: VAC.
Live counts
What is the population on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red at the moment?
Down at the moment, [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red was last seen 13 days 21 hours ago.
Where does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red sit in the rankings?
The last seven days put [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red at #15,098 on player hours: top 70% of all ranked servers.
Wipe days
What is the wipe schedule on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
The force wipe is the only wipe for [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red, once a month. When every Rust server wipes, on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, its next wipe is the force wipe. 30 days 4 hours ago, its current world was made. The wipe schedule in its tags is monthly.
What does wipe day look like on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
1 players on average is what its recent wipes drew at their busiest. The crowd reached its peak 10 hours after the latest wipe.
How to join
How do I join [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?
Press F1 in Rust, bring up the console and enter client.connect 51.81.166.171:28016. The Launch Rust button here does the same, opening Rust via Steam and connecting you.
GlossaryServer tags
what each one meansPublished as mp500,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs166146,sc2,^x,ts8
On Rust Player Stats
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.