Rust.96.fi - Staging Branch
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 15%.
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
89.190.6.44:28015
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 1613 places on last week. Top 15% of all ranked servers, top 42% in EU. Daily; 1 is best.
In its own words
Step into Staging Branch server! Here, you can explore new landscapes, features and build without rush, knowing your progress is safe for a year, unless a new staging branch update (protocol update) requires a reset. This server is not meant for clan battles or base destruction, offering a nurturing environment for beginners to learn and expand their skills. Server Features: * Progress kept until 2027, barring protocol updates. * Consistent Exploration: Same map seed throughout 2026.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 89.190.6.44:28015
- Region
- EU · eu2
- Max players
- 96
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 25 Sep 2026, 01:17 UTC
- Hostname
- rust.96.fi
- First seen
- 13 Sep 2026
- Operator · 96.fi
- the only server with this hostname
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 settings does Rust.96.fi - Staging Branch use?
There is no gather rate in the name of Rust.96.fi - Staging Branch. It uses the default group size of 8 players. It plays as survival, the default game of gathering, building and raiding. You can fight and raid other players. Listed under Community in the server browser, it is a community server. The server describes itself as vanilla: as Facepunch intended: standard rates, no kits, no extra rules. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What's the map on Rust.96.fi - Staging Branch?
Rust.96.fi - Staging Branch uses a procedural map of 4,250 that the game generates with seed 308670667. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, as the same size and seed make the same map.
Tags
How should you read the tags on Rust.96.fi - Staging Branch?
gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival setup; mp96 (Max players): Room for 96; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size is 8; v2634 (Protocol): Get on protocol 2634 or the door stays shut; cs167067 (Build): Running build 167067; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $reu2 (Region code): The region code reads eu2; ^v (Vanilla): As Facepunch intended: standard rates, no kits, no extra rules; EU (Europe): Browser listing: Europe are the tags Rust.96.fi - Staging Branch puts out, and the game's server browser takes them in. 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.
What Boongarust lists feature Rust.96.fi - Staging Branch?
On these Boongarust lists you will find Rust.96.fi - Staging Branch: EU Rust servers, The busiest community servers in Rust and Vanilla Rust servers. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Region: Europe; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Who's behind Rust.96.fi - Staging Branch?
A 96.fi hostname is published by Rust.96.fi - Staging Branch, and no other server we track uses it.
Server details
Where can you find Rust.96.fi - Staging Branch?
By its EU tag, Rust.96.fi - Staging Branch sits in Europe. Region code: eu2. What you see on Boongarust is where a server says it is, not where the machine is found to stand. Connect at 89.190.6.44:28015.
What's the uptime like on Rust.96.fi - Staging Branch?
Online: Rust.96.fi - Staging Branch, at this moment. Uptime over the last 7 full days came to 100%, 168 hours from 168. It entered Boongarust's records on 13 September 2026.
Which Rust build does Rust.96.fi - Staging Branch have?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167067 on Linux: that is Rust.96.fi - Staging Branch. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe info
Wipe day at Rust.96.fi - Staging Branch: what's it like?
Across recent wipes, the average peak was 9 players. Peak crowd on the latest wipe came 14 hours after it.
Rust.96.fi - Staging Branch wipes on what schedule?
The record holds too few of Rust.96.fi - Staging Branch's wipes to tell its rhythm. Next force wipe: Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Every Rust server goes down for it, every month. 12 days 22 hours ago this server built its current world.
Population
What's Rust.96.fi - Staging Branch's rank among Rust servers?
In the top 15% of all ranked servers, Rust.96.fi - Staging Branch is #3,589 on player hours over the last seven days and #1,254 in Europe.
What's the player count on Rust.96.fi - Staging Branch?
0 players are on Rust.96.fi - Staging Branch at the moment, out of 96 slots. It averaged 1 players over the last seven days and peaked at 5. It was busiest at 14:00 UTC in the last 48 hours, with 3 players on average.
How to join
What's the process to join Rust.96.fi - Staging Branch?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 89.190.6.44:28015. Or click Launch Rust here, which uses Steam to open the game and join. You can find its website at https://rust.96.fi.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp96,ptrak,$reu2,v2634,^v,EU,gmrust,cs167067,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.