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Element card · group Modded · atomic number 15,335, its rank

The Nexus

Online 79.117.123.136:28015 checked 10m ago

moddedcarbon
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Atomic mass · players now 0/ 50 0% full Room to join
7-day average0peak –
Rank · atomic number#15,335top 69%
Last wipe10d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes 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
AveragePeak
0123410:0019:0004:0013:0023:0008:00

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
02040608010:0019:0004:0013:0023:0008:00

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 8 Oct. 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
15k10k15k20k8 Oct12 Oct16 Oct21 Oct25 Oct29 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

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Wipe schedule

too few wipes seen yet

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

wipe-day peak1players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 1 hours in.

Reaction log

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers 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.

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Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Settings and map

What map is in play on The Nexus?

A procedural map of size 4,500 with seed 1591971938 runs on The Nexus, generated by the game. The map repeats when size and seed match, and you can view it on RustMaps from this page.

What settings and rules apply on The Nexus?

The name of The Nexus carries no gather rate. Eight players per group is the limit, the game's default. Play runs as survival, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. You can fight other players and raid them. Plugins or settings change the game, so the browser lists it under Modded. Carbon plugins are running on it. Anti-cheat is on: Valve's VAC.

About the server

In what location does The Nexus sit?

Nothing about a region is published by The Nexus. The location shown is the one a server states; Rust Data Lab does not check where the machine actually stands. You will find it at 79.117.123.136:28015.

What Rust version does The Nexus currently run?

On Linux, The Nexus is running Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Your game needs to match the protocol to join, and Steam updates it automatically.

Does The Nexus stay up, and how reliable is its uptime?

Right now, The Nexus is reachable. The uptime it reports suggests it restarted roughly 5 days 21 hours ago. It was online for 167 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, which is 99% uptime. It first appeared to Rust Data Lab on 8 October 2026.

Does The Nexus hold a steady performance?

The last 48 hours show an average of 40 server fps and a minimum of 17. The entity count reached 121,653, including buildings, deployables and all other world items. The highest memory usage was 5,114 MB. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

Wipes and resets

What is the wiping pattern on The Nexus?

The Nexus's wipe history on record is too thin yet to tell its rhythm. The next monthly force wipe, which wipes all Rust servers, is scheduled for Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The world it is running now dates from 10 days 13 hours ago.

What does a typical wipe day on The Nexus involve?

At their busiest, recent wipes averaged 1 players. 1 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked.

Tags, lists

What should you understand from the tags The Nexus carries?

These are the tags The Nexus makes public for the server browser to read: gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival is the game here; mp50 (Max players): 50 is the slot count; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it lists under Modded; ^y (Carbon): This server uses the Carbon plugin framework. Current players, the queue and the world's creation time sit in the tags too, shown at the top of this page.

Where among the Rust Data Lab lists and filters does The Nexus come up?

You will find The Nexus on the following Rust Data Lab lists: Modded Rust servers, measured. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

Player counts

What position does The Nexus hold among Rust servers?

Player hours over the last week put The Nexus at #15,335, inside the top 69% of ranked servers.

How full is The Nexus right now?

At the moment The Nexus has 0 of its 50 slots filled. Over seven days the mean player count is 0.

Connection

How can you connect to The Nexus?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 79.117.123.136:28015. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same job through Steam.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^z,^y

Game

gmrust
Game mode Standard Rust survival is the game here.
mp50
Max players 50 is the slot count.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Mods and access

^z
Modded Plugins or settings alter the game, so it lists under Modded.
^y
Carbon This server uses the Carbon plugin framework.

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.