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
217.233.132.176:28025
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
Down 1525 places on last week. Top 71% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 217.233.132.176:28025
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 1
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 25 Sep 2026, 09:48 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 20 Sep 2026
Other contenders
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Map and rules
What are Staging Server's rules and configuration?
There is no gather rate in the name of Staging Server. The group limit is 8 players, as the game defaults. It plays as survival, gather, build and raid in the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. You see it under Community in the browser: it is a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What's the map on Staging Server?
Staging Server uses a procedural map that the game generates.
Tags
What are the tags on Staging Server for?
The game's server browser reads the tags Staging Server publishes: gmvanilla (Game mode): Unchanged vanilla survival; mp1 (Max players): 1 players fit in; ts8 (Group limit): The game default: 8 to a team; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: match it or you cannot join; cs165756 (Build): Build 165756; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's usual choice; $r? (Region code): No region code on record. From the tags, this page also pulls its live player count, its queue and its world's creation time, and puts them at the top.
Where does Staging Server appear in Boongarust lists?
The Boongarust lists that take Staging Server are: The busiest community servers in Rust. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Server details
What's the location of Staging Server?
No region comes from Staging Server. What you see on Boongarust is where a server says it is, not where the machine is found to stand. Connect at 217.233.132.176:28025.
How reliable is Staging Server?
Staging Server is down, with the last sighting 13 days 10 hours ago. Uptime over the last 7 full days came to 0%, 0 hours from 168. It entered Boongarust's records on 20 September 2026.
What Rust version is Staging Server using?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 165756 on Windows: that is Staging Server. You must match the protocol to join; Steam updates it automatically.
Wipe times
How does Staging Server handle wipe day?
Across recent wipes, the average peak was 0 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 0 hours in.
When does Staging Server wipe?
With so few of Staging Server's wipes on record, its rhythm is unclear. The monthly force wipe hits every Rust server, and the next one lands on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 13 days 10 hours ago this server built its current world.
Player counts
What's Staging Server's rank among Rust servers?
In the top 71% of all ranked servers, Staging Server is #16,255 on player hours over the last seven days.
What's the player count on Staging Server?
Staging Server last showed life 13 days 10 hours ago; it is offline now.
How to join
How can you get into Staging Server?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 217.233.132.176:28025. You can also use Launch Rust on this page to open Rust via Steam and connect.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp1,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmvanilla,cs165756,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.