[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red

Online 51.81.166.171:28016 checked 8m ago

official monthly wipes vanilla
0/ 500
players now
0% full
0
7-day average
peak 1
#5,958
rank
top 26%
19d ago
last wipe
monthly schedule
2d 19h
next wipe
Thu 1 Oct, 18:00 UTC FW

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75123:0008:0017:0002:0011:0020:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

02040608023:0008:0017:0002:0011:0020:00

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

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
12k4k6k8k20 Sep22 Sep23 Sep25 Sep26 Sep28 Sep

Top 26% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Wipe schedule

Next wipe Thursday 1 October, 18:00 UTC, in 2d 19h. The force wipe

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
No wipe seen yet.

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
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NA · groups of 16+ · monthly · 113 on average
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NA · groups of 8+ · monthly · 84 on average
59 / 200
RustLands | Monthly Large | No BP Wipe | NOOB FRIENDLY 7/2 7.2
NA · groups of 50+ · monthly · 78 on average
63 / 400
Rusty Moose |US Monthly|
NA · groups of 12+ · monthly · 67 on average
56 / 200
Rustoria.co - US Long Premium
NA · groups of 14+ · monthly · 31 on average
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PICKLE VANILLA MONTHLY | No BP Wipe
NA · groups of 50+ · monthly · 26 on average
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Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Wipes

What is the wipe schedule on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?

[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red's next wipe is an estimate from the force wipe. Its next wipe is the force wipe on Thursday 1 October at 18:00 UTC, when every Rust server wipes. Its current world was made 19 days 13 hours ago. It publishes a monthly wipe schedule in its tags.

Players

How busy is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?

Right now [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red has 0 players on 500 slots. Over the last seven days it averaged 0 players and peaked at 1. In the last 48 hours it was busiest at 03:00 UTC, with 1 players on average.

How does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red rank against other Rust servers?

[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red is #5,958 on player hours over the last seven days, in the top 26% of all ranked servers.

Rules and map

What are the rules and settings on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?

[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red gives no gather rate in its name. Groups can have up to 8 players, the game's default. Its game mode is survival, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Players can fight and raid each other. It is in Rust's in-game Official tab. It calls itself vanilla: the game as Facepunch ships it: no changed rates, kits or rules. Valve's anti-cheat, VAC, is on.

Which map does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red run?

[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red runs a procedural map, generated by the game, of size 2,500 with seed 4575464. The same size and seed give the same map, so it can be looked at on RustMaps from this page.

Tags and lists

What do the server tags on [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red mean?

[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red publishes these tags, which the game's server browser reads: 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): Standard Rust survival; mp500 (Max players): 500 slots; ts8 (Group limit): At most 8 per team, the game default; v2633 (Protocol): Game protocol 2633: your game has to be on the same version to join; cs163560 (Build): Game build 163560; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's standard network layer; $r? (Region code): No region code set; ^m (Monthly): Wipes once a month, with Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): The game as Facepunch ships it: no changed rates, kits or rules; ^t (Tutorial on): New players can start with Facepunch's tutorial here; ^x (Unknown flag): A flag Facepunch doesn't document. Its players now, its queue and the time its world was made are in the tags too, and are shown at the top of this page.

Which Zongarust lists and filters include [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?

[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red fits these Zongarust lists: Best official Rust servers, Rust tutorial servers, Best US Rust servers and Best vanilla Rust servers. On the server list it comes up under these filters: 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.

Who runs [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?

[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red publishes a playrust.com hostname, and so do 124 other servers we track, so they are most likely run by the same operator.

The server

Where is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red located?

[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red publishes no region tag, but its name points to North America. Zongarust shows where a server says it is; it does not look up where the machine stands. Its address is 51.81.166.171:28016.

Is [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red online, and how reliable is it?

[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red is online right now. It last restarted about 19 days 11 hours ago, going by the uptime it reports. Over the last 7 full days it was up 100% of the time, 168 of 168 hours. Zongarust first saw it on 13 September 2026.

Does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red run smoothly?

Over the last 48 hours it ran at 58 server fps on average, never below 56. It carried up to 33,400 entities: buildings, deployables and everything else in the world. It used up to 4,019 MB of memory. Low fps and a climbing entity count are what players feel as lag.

Which version of Rust does [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red run?

[US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red runs Rust network protocol 2633 and build 163560 on Windows. Your game has to be on the same protocol to join; Steam updates it for you.

Joining

How do I join [US] Facepunch Nexus Staging - Red?

Start Rust, press F1 to open the console and enter client.connect 51.81.166.171:28016. Or use Launch Rust and join on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you. Its website is http://playrust.com.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp500,ptrak,$r?,v2633,^m,^v,^t,gmrust,cs163560,^x,ts8

On Zongarust

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.

Game

gmrust
Game mode Standard Rust survival.
mp500
Max players 500 slots.
ts8
Group limit At most 8 per team, the game default.
v2633
Protocol Game protocol 2633: your game has to be on the same version to join.
cs163560
Build Game build 163560.
ptrak
Networking RakNet, the game's standard network layer.
$r?
Region code No region code set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Wipes once a month, with Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla The game as Facepunch ships it: no changed rates, kits or rules.

Gameplay

^t
Tutorial on New players can start with Facepunch's tutorial here.

Other

^x
Unknown flag A flag Facepunch doesn't document.

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.