Live coverage · Rust server
Offline Staging Dev Server is not on the server list right now. The figures below are from when it was last seen, 1d ago.
The count
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Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
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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.
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Top 34% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Coming up · wipe schedule
no rhythm it keeps
Its wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 2 hours in.
The current map
Tuesday 27 October 2026, 17:06 UTC
Wipe
Thursday 22 October 2026, 05:27 UTC
Wipe
Sunday 18 October 2026, 21:41 UTC
Wipe
Tuesday 13 October 2026, 19:19 UTC
Wipe
Monday 5 October 2026, 11:06 UTC
Wipe
Saturday 3 October 2026, 20:51 UTC
Wipe
Monday 28 September 2026, 22:17 UTC
Wipe
Friday 25 September 2026, 21:37 UTC
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.
Recent wipes on this server averaged a peak of 1 players at their busiest. 2 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. In the other cases it dropped under half by day 1.
No next wipe can be predicted for Staging Dev Server, which wipes at irregular times. Every server in Rust, this one among them, wipes at the monthly force wipe; Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the next. 36 hours have passed since this world was generated.
The Rust Live Stats lists that include Staging Dev Server are Live Rust community servers. These filters on the server list bring it up: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 3 days.
gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp50 (Max players): The slot count is 50; ts8 (Group limit): Teams stop at 8, the default the game ships with; v2635 (Protocol): Join only if your game is on protocol 2635; cs169353 (Build): Build: 169353; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's usual network layer, carries this server; $r? (Region code): No region code is set here: that is the tag list Staging Dev Server publishes for the game's server browser. Players now, queue length and world creation time are carried in the tags too, and appear at the top of this page.
Last seen 34 hours ago, Staging Dev Server is offline right now. Averaged across seven days, 1 players; the peak was 1. Between now and 48 hours back, 18:00 UTC drew the most players, 1 on average.
On player hours for the past seven days, Staging Dev Server sits at #7,668, inside the top 34% of ranked servers.
The name Staging Dev Server carries no gather rate. Eight players per group, which is the game's default. It runs survival, the standard game: gather, build, raid. You can raid and fight other players. Community is its browser category. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
Nothing on Staging Dev Server states a region. The location shown on Rust Live Stats is the one a server gives, not a lookup of the machine's position. Connect to 104.28.230.248:28015.
Staging Dev Server operates on Windows with Rust network protocol 2635 and build 169353. Steam updates it for you, but your game needs the same protocol to join.
Staging Dev Server is currently offline, with its last appearance 34 hours ago. 11 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 7% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Live Stats was on 19 September 2026.
Enter client.connect 104.28.230.248:28015 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.