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Specimen recordcat. no. 13,857habitat unknownfirst seen 24 Oct 2026

Aqua Staging Branch

Online 45.92.36.78:28045 checked 8m ago

quad moddedcarbon

Measurements

Players now
0/ 50
0% full
7-day average
0
peak 1
Rank
#13,857
top 63%
Last wipe
12d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
no wipe seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123420:0005:0014:0000:0009:0018:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

010020030040020:0005:0014:0000:0009:0018:00

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 24 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.

Obs. 3 · standing

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k24 Oct25 Oct26 Oct27 Oct

Top 63% of all ranked servers, and #581 of the quad servers (top 71%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

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

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
No wipe seen yet.

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.

Field questions

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Player counts

How does Aqua Staging Branch rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, Aqua Staging Branch places at #13,857, within the top 63% of ranked servers. It places #581 among servers of the quad kind.

How busy is Aqua Staging Branch?

Of its 50 slots, Aqua Staging Branch is using 0 right now. We counted an average of 0 players in the past week, with 1 at the busiest.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on Aqua Staging Branch mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags Aqua Staging Branch publishes: gmvanilla (Game mode): The game mode is vanilla survival; mp50 (Max players): You can join up to 50 slots; ts4 (Group limit): Teams can have no more than 4 players; v2635 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join; cs169070 (Build): Game build: 169070; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, so it is listed under Modded; ^y (Carbon): Carbon provides the plugin framework here. You will see the player count, queue and world creation time at the top of this page, because the tags carry them too.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include Aqua Staging Branch?

These Rust Population lists include Aqua Staging Branch: Modded Rust servers, counted. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: Quad; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

Wipe schedule

What is the wipe schedule on Aqua Staging Branch?

Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of Aqua Staging Branch's wipes are on record. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe comes round, and every Rust server wipes with it. Counted from 12 days 5 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Settings

Which map does Aqua Staging Branch run?

The map on Aqua Staging Branch is procedural, made by the game at size 4,500 from seed 1337. The map follows from its size and seed, and RustMaps shows it from this page. The name on the map is staging.aquarust.co.uk.

What are the rules and settings on Aqua Staging Branch?

No gather rate appears in the name of Aqua Staging Branch. The cap on groups is 4 players (quad). survival is what it runs, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Modded is its browser category: plugins or settings change the game. You will find Carbon running as plugins. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

Server details

Which version of Rust does Aqua Staging Branch run?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 169070 on Windows is what Aqua Staging Branch uses. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Does Aqua Staging Branch run smoothly?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 162 server fps, with a low of 119. Up to 116,000 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 2,760 MB. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

Is Aqua Staging Branch online, and how reliable is it?

You will find Aqua Staging Branch online now. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 4 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 2 full days, 48 out of 48 hours. On 24 October 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is Aqua Staging Branch located?

A region is not published by Aqua Staging Branch. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. 45.92.36.78:28045 is where it lives.

How to join

How do I join Aqua Staging Branch?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 45.92.36.78:28045. Joining from this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you. For more, visit its website: https://aquarust.co.uk/map_preview.php.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmvanilla,cs169070,ts4,^z,^y

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode The game mode is vanilla survival.
mp50
Max players You can join up to 50 slots.
ts4
Group limit Teams can have no more than 4 players.
v2635
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join.
cs169070
Build Game build: 169070.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Mods and access

^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, so it is listed under Modded.
^y
Carbon Carbon provides the plugin framework here.

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.