Online 79.117.123.136:28015 checked 10m ago
The Nexus
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, measured since 8 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
FormRank
daily · 1 is bestTop 69% 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 1, 1 hours in.
ResultsWipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 18 Oct, 19:16 UTC10d 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 The Nexus online, and how reliable is it?
The lights are on at The Nexus: online as you read this. Going by the uptime it reports, the last restart came about 5 days 16 hours ago. 167 of 168 hours were up over the last 7 full days, 99% of the time. The first record Rust Player Stats has of it is 8 October 2026.
Does The Nexus run smoothly?
40 server fps on average over 48 hours, and never under 17. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world pushed the entity count to 121,653. The memory ceiling was 5,114 MB. Lag, to a player, is these two together: low fps and a rising entity count.
Which Rust version is The Nexus on?
On Linux, The Nexus runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Same protocol or no entry: your game must match, and Steam keeps it updated for you.
Where is The Nexus located?
There is no region published on The Nexus. What a server says about itself is what Rust Player Stats shows; no check is made of where the machine actually stands. The address you connect to is 79.117.123.136:28015.
Lists and filters
What do the server tags on The Nexus mean?
The game's server browser reads these tags from The Nexus: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): Slot count: 50; ts8 (Group limit): The default 8 per team applies here; v2635 (Protocol): Your game must be on protocol 2635 to get in; cs168909 (Build): It runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): Standard network layer RakNet is in use; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^z (Modded): Modded is its category: plugins or settings change how it plays; ^y (Carbon): It uses Carbon for plugins. 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 The Nexus?
The Rust Player Stats lists that include The Nexus are: Modded Rust servers, live. Searching the server list with these filters returns it: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Server rules
Which map is running on The Nexus?
The procedural map on The Nexus is size 4,500, generated by the game from seed 1591971938. Same size, same seed, same map, so RustMaps shows it from this page.
What are the rules and settings on The Nexus?
No gather rate appears in the name of The Nexus. Up to 8 players to a group, which is the default. gather, build, raid: the standard game: that is the survival game mode. PvP is on, and so is raiding. Plugins or settings change the game, so the server browser lists it as Modded. It runs plugins: Carbon. VAC is on, so Valve's anti-cheat is watching.
Player counts
How full is The Nexus right now?
Out of 50 slots, 0 are taken on The Nexus at this moment. Averaged out across the past week, the count is 0 players.
Where does The Nexus sit in the rankings?
The last seven days put The Nexus at #15,349 on player hours: top 69% of all ranked servers.
Wipe timing
What is the wipe schedule on The Nexus?
The record holds too few of The Nexus's wipes to tell its rhythm. Next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the monthly force wipe, when every Rust server wipes. 10 days 7 hours ago is when its current world was made.
What does wipe day look like on The Nexus?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew 1 players on average. 1 hours after the wipe, the crowd peaked on the latest wipe.
How to join
How do I join The Nexus?
Press F1 in Rust, bring up the console and enter client.connect 79.117.123.136:28015. 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,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^z,^y
Game
gmrust
mp50
ts8
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
Mods and access
^z
^y
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.