2x Staging
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 25%.
Power level
Players on it, from the Steam server list.
Every five minutes.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Tale of the tape
Against its closest rival: the most similar server we track.
Wipe receipt
168.100.163.159:28040
THANK YOU · COME AGAIN NEXT WIPE
The map
Under the hood
Asked of the server directly. Low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
The ranking
Up 7424 places on last week. Top 25% of all ranked servers, top 60% in EU. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 168.100.163.159:28040
- Region
- EU · uk1
- Max players
- 50
- Group limit
- 16 max
- Wipe schedule
- monthly
- Last wipe
- 30 Sep 2026, 21:19 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 30 Sep 2026
Other contenders
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Server rules
What are 2x Staging's rules and configuration?
By its name, 2x Staging gives you 2x gather. The group limit is 16 players. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. PvP and raiding are enabled. Modded in the browser is where it appears: plugins or settings change how the game plays. You find Oxide plugins in use. It claims vanilla status: as Facepunch intended: standard rates, no kits, no extra rules. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What's the map on 2x Staging?
A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 1337 is in use on 2x Staging, made by the game. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed give an identical map. You see the map name as: discord.gg/vitalityservers.
Tags
What do 2x Staging's tags signify?
gmvanilla (Game mode): Vanilla, straight up; mp50 (Max players): Room for 50; ts16 (Group limit): No more than 16 to a team; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version must equal protocol 2634 to get in; cs166440 (Build): Game build is 166440; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $ruk1 (Region code): Region code uk1; ^m (Monthly): The calendar is monthly: one wipe with the force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): As Facepunch intended: standard rates, no kits, no extra rules; ^o (Oxide): It uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): It is Modded: plugins or settings make the difference; modded (Modded): It is Modded: plugins or settings make the difference; EU (Europe): Browser listing: Europe are the tags 2x Staging puts out, and the game's server browser takes them in. The top of this page also shows its current players, its queue and when its world was made, all taken from the tags.
Where does 2x Staging appear in Boongarust lists?
On these Boongarust lists you will find 2x Staging: 2x Rust servers, EU Rust servers and Top modded Rust servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: Europe; Type: Vanilla and Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks; Gather rate: 2x.
Server details
Performance of 2x Staging: does it hold up?
The 48-hour average was 67 server fps; the floor was 67. Buildings, deployables and everything else added up to as many as 135,551 entities. It drew as much as 6,850 MB of memory. Players feel lag when fps drops and entities pile up.
What's the location of 2x Staging?
Its EU tag places 2x Staging in Europe, and its region code is uk1. Where a server says it is, that is what Boongarust shows. Where the machine actually stands is not looked up. Connect at 168.100.163.159:28040.
How reliable is 2x Staging?
2x Staging is up as you read this. The uptime it reports suggests a restart around 7 days 16 hours ago. Uptime over the last 7 full days came to 99%, 167 hours from 168. 30 September 2026 is when Boongarust first spotted it.
Which Rust build does 2x Staging have?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166440 on Linux: that is 2x Staging. Steam keeps your game updated; you need the same protocol to connect.
Wipe info
When does 2x Staging wipe?
The estimate for 2x Staging's next wipe comes from the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is next, and every Rust server wipes with it. The world you are on was made 7 days 22 hours. Its tags say it wipes monthly.
Population
Where does 2x Staging sit in the rankings?
Ranked #5,713 on the week's player hours, 2x Staging sits in the top 25% overall and #1,735 in Europe.
Is 2x Staging busy?
2x Staging is showing 2 players on 50 slots right now. The average over the last seven days was 0 players, with a peak of 3. Over the last 48 hours, the busiest hour was 18:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.
How to join
What's the process to join 2x Staging?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 168.100.163.159:28040. Or click Launch Rust here, which uses Steam to open the game and join.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp50,ptrak,$ruk1,v2634,^m,^v,EU,gmvanilla,cs166440,ts16,^o^z,modded.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.