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Live readings Servers11,685 Players46,119 Populated3,120 Fresh wipes · 3h121 Sampled every 5 min

Element card · group Community · atomic number 14,176, its rank

Rust Staging Server

Offline 2.86.29.28:28015 checked 26d ago

Join the experiment
Atomic mass · players now 1/ 5 20% full Room to join
7-day average0peak –
Rank · atomic number#14,176top 60%
Last wipe26d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no wipe seen yet
Result 01

Players

Method
Every five minutes for the last two hours, from the Steam server list; hourly average and peak over 48 hours; daily average and peak over 90 days. UTC. Dashed lines are its wipes and the force wipes.
Result
No hourly history yet.

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Result 02

Server performance

Method
Asked of the server itself, hour by hour and day by day: its frame rate, the entities in its world and the memory it holds.
Result
This server has not answered a direct query in the last 48 hours.

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.

Result 03

Rank

Result

daily · 1 is best

RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k1 Oct2 Oct4 Oct5 Oct7 Oct8 Oct

Top 60% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Reaction kinetics

Wipe schedule

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

Reaction log

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.

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Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Map and rules

What map is in play on Rust Staging Server?

A procedural map runs on Rust Staging Server, generated by the game.

What settings and rules apply on Rust Staging Server?

The name of Rust Staging Server carries no gather rate. Groups top out at 8 players, the default for the game. survival is the game mode, raiding, building and gathering: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. You will find it under Community in the server browser. Anti-cheat is on: Valve's VAC.

About the server

What region hosts Rust Staging Server?

No region is published by Rust Staging Server. Rust Data Lab shows a server's stated location, not a verified position of the machine. You will find it at 2.86.29.28:28015.

On what Rust version does Rust Staging Server operate?

On Windows, Rust Staging Server is running Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166472. The protocol must match for you to join; Steam will update your game.

How dependable is Rust Staging Server for staying online?

Right now Rust Staging Server is offline, with its last appearance 26 days 12 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, giving 0% uptime. On 1 October 2026, Rust Data Lab saw it for the first time.

Wipe days

When does Rust Staging Server wipe, and how often?

Rust Staging Server's wipe history on record is too thin yet to tell its rhythm. A monthly force wipe happens on every Rust server, and the next one falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The world it is running now dates from 26 days 16 hours ago.

Where it appears

Which meanings sit behind the tags on Rust Staging Server?

The game's server browser reads the tags Rust Staging Server publishes, which are gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival is the game here; mp5 (Max players): It has 5 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the game's default: 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634 is required; join only if your game matches it; cs166472 (Build): It runs build 166472; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game; $r? (Region code): The region field is left blank. Also in the tags are the players on now, the queue length and the world's creation time, and you can see them at the top of this page.

Where among the Rust Data Lab lists and filters does Rust Staging Server come up?

The Rust Data Lab lists that include Rust Staging Server are: Rust community servers, measured. Applying these filters on the server list returns it: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.

Population

Against other Rust servers, where does Rust Staging Server place?

The seven-day player-hours table has Rust Staging Server at #14,176, in the top 60% of ranked servers.

What does the current player count on Rust Staging Server tell you?

No live signal from Rust Staging Server right now, which was last seen 26 days 12 hours ago.

Getting on

How can you connect to Rust Staging Server?

In Rust, press F1 and enter client.connect 2.86.29.28:28015. Or click Launch Rust here to open Rust via Steam and connect automatically.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp5,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166472,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Standard Rust survival is the game here.
mp5
Max players It has 5 slots.
ts8
Group limit This uses the game's default: 8 per team.
v2634
Protocol Protocol 2634 is required; join only if your game matches it.
cs166472
Build It runs build 166472.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game.
$r?
Region code The region field is left blank.

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.