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Midnight Rider

Online 157.85.94.108:28015 checked 10m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 40 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,423top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe9d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no rhythm it keeps
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123412:0021:0006:0016:0001:0010:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

010020030040012:0021:0006:0016:0001:0010:00

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

Climbing the charts

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k8 Oct12 Oct16 Oct20 Oct24 Oct28 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

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.

1.3 days
usual gap
between real wipes
33%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
2
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 1

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Sun 18 OctSat 10 OctSat 10 Oct
00.511.52+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 1 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sun 18 Oct, 19:58 UTC9d ago 1 – running 0
Sat 10 Oct, 22:33 UTC17d ago 2 halved by day 1 7.9 days 1
Sat 10 Oct, 01:09 UTC18d ago 2 – 0.9 days 0
Thu 8 Oct, 19:04 UTC19d ago 2 – 1.3 days 0

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.

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The interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Midnight Rider?

You'll find Midnight Rider on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Community servers, by the numbers. It appears under these filters 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.

What do the server tags on Midnight Rider mean?

These are the tags Midnight Rider publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp40 (Max players): Slots: 40; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2634 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2634, so your client has to match it to join; cs167781 (Build): The game build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does Midnight Rider rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #15,423 puts Midnight Rider in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on Midnight Rider right now?

Midnight Rider is holding 0 players, with 40 slots in total. It has averaged 0 players over the last seven days.

About the server

Is Midnight Rider online, and how reliable is it?

Midnight Rider is live at the moment. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 9 days 14 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours in total. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 8 October 2026.

Does Midnight Rider run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 232, with 213 as the lowest. At its peak it held 10,791 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Memory use peaked at 4,228 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is Midnight Rider located?

No region is published by Midnight Rider. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 157.85.94.108:28015.

Which Rust version is Midnight Rider on?

On Linux, Midnight Rider runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

The wipe schedule

What happens on Midnight Rider when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 2 players at their busiest. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 1 hours in. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that happened in 0% of its recent wipes. If it did not hold, half the peak was gone by day 1.

What is the wipe schedule on Midnight Rider?

There is no next wipe to predict on Midnight Rider, because wipes come at irregular times. A force wipe comes round every month for all Rust servers, with the next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 9 days 15 hours is when the present world was made.

The rules

Which map does Midnight Rider run?

Generated by the game with seed 50000, the map on Midnight Rider is procedural and 1,700 in size. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.

What are the rules and settings on Midnight Rider?

No gather rate appears in the name of Midnight Rider. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. the usual game of gathering, building and raiding: that is the survival mode. Players can raid and fight one another. The server browser lists it under Community. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

Join up

How do I join Midnight Rider?

Enter client.connect 157.85.94.108:28015 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp40
Max players Slots: 40.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
v2634
Protocol The game protocol is 2634, so your client has to match it to join.
cs167781
Build The game build is 167781.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region code has been set.

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.