Midwest Staging Server
Online NA 216.245.176.210:28015 checked 8m ago
Vital stats
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 69% of all ranked servers, top 81% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 3h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 10 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 29 Oct, 14:39 UTC23m ago | – | – | running | 0 |
| Fri 25 Sep, 09:07 UTC34d ago | 2 | – | – | 0 |
| Thu 24 Sep, 14:52 UTC35d ago | 2 | – | 0.8 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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Server tags
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Midwest Staging Server?
These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include Midwest Staging Server: Community servers, by the numbers and North America: who's hot right now. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Weekly ^w; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Weekly.
What do the server tags on Midwest Staging Server mean?
The game's server browser picks up these tags from Midwest Staging Server: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp100 (Max players): It has 100 slots; ts12 (Group limit): Each team is capped at 12; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^w (Weekly): It wipes weekly; NA (North America): In the server browser it sits under North America. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.
The players
How does Midwest Staging Server rank against other Rust servers?
Midwest Staging Server takes #15,344 on seven-day player hours, a top 69% spot overall and #1,503 across North America.
How many players are on Midwest Staging Server right now?
Midwest Staging Server is holding 1 players, with 100 slots in total. Across the past week it drew an average of 0 players.
About the server
Is Midwest Staging Server online, and how reliable is it?
As of now, Midwest Staging Server is online. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 4 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 99%, with 167 out of 168 hours online. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.
Does Midwest Staging Server run smoothly?
Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 94, and it never went below 67. At its peak it held 146,692 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Up to 3,449 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.
Where is Midwest Staging Server located?
With its NA tag, Midwest Staging Server lists itself in North America. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 216.245.176.210:28015.
Which Rust version is Midwest Staging Server on?
On Windows, Midwest Staging Server runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.
The wipe schedule
What happens on Midwest Staging Server when wipe day comes around?
Recent wipes averaged a peak of 2 players at their busiest. 10 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak. Its recent wipes kept the crowd above half the peak until the next one 0% of the time. If it did not hold, half the peak was gone by day 3.
What is the wipe schedule on Midwest Staging Server?
The prediction follows its tag, since too few of Midwest Staging Server's wipes are on record to confirm the schedule. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 34 days 20 hours is when the present world was made. Its tags carry a wipe schedule that runs weekly.
Map and rules
Which map does Midwest Staging Server run?
A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 2797472621 is what Midwest Staging Server runs, made by the game. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map.
What are the rules and settings on Midwest Staging Server?
Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on Midwest Staging Server. A group holds at most 12 players. the usual game of gathering, building and raiding: that is the survival mode. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Community is its listing in the server browser. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.
Getting in
How do I join Midwest Staging Server?
Enter client.connect 216.245.176.210:28015 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically. You can find its website at https://discord.com/invite/RnZSuvqXjW.