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Starlight After Dark | Halloween 2X |

Online 216.39.240.117:27500 checked 22m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 78/ 90 slots 87% full +74×20against this time yesterday
7-day average3peak 74
Rank#1,822top 8%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe10d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no rhythm it keeps
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
02040608001:0010:0020:0005:0014:0023:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608001:0010:0020:0005:0014:0023:00

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 7 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
15k10k15k20k7 Oct11 Oct16 Oct20 Oct25 Oct29 Oct

Top 8% 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.

0.9 days
usual gap
between real wipes
0%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
2
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Mon 19 OctSun 18 OctSat 17 Oct
00.511.52+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 34 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Mon 19 Oct, 09:54 UTC10d ago 3 – running 1
Sun 18 Oct, 14:47 UTC11d ago 2 – 0.8 days 0
Sat 17 Oct, 12:40 UTC12d ago 2 – 1.1 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

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Tags

Who runs Starlight After Dark | Halloween 2X |?

Starlight After Dark | Halloween 2X | and 11 other servers we track publish a rfgam.ing hostname, which points to one operator behind them.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Starlight After Dark | Halloween 2X |?

You'll find Starlight After Dark | Halloween 2X | on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: 2x Rust servers, live and Modded Rust servers, live. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Vanilla and Modded; Server tag: Vanilla ^v, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks; Gather rate: 2x; Players now: At least 50.

What do the server tags on Starlight After Dark | Halloween 2X | mean?

These are the tags Starlight After Dark | Halloween 2X | publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp90 (Max players): It has 90 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join; cs168909 (Build): It's on game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded; ^y (Carbon): This server uses Carbon for plugins. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does Starlight After Dark | Halloween 2X | rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #1,822 puts Starlight After Dark | Halloween 2X | in the top 8% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on Starlight After Dark | Halloween 2X | right now?

The current tally at Starlight After Dark | Halloween 2X |: 78 players across 90 slots. Peak for the week was 74, against an average of 3 players. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 23:00 UTC, averaging 77 players.

About the server

Is Starlight After Dark | Halloween 2X | online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, Starlight After Dark | Halloween 2X | is online. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 13 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 85%, with 143 out of 168 hours online. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 7 October 2026.

Does Starlight After Dark | Halloween 2X | run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 80, and it never went below 80. At its peak it held 91,861 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. The highest memory usage was 4,008 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is Starlight After Dark | Halloween 2X | located?

There is no region from Starlight After Dark | Halloween 2X |. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 216.39.240.117:27500.

Which Rust version is Starlight After Dark | Halloween 2X | on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version Starlight After Dark | Halloween 2X | runs on Linux. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

Wipe times

What happens on Starlight After Dark | Halloween 2X | when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 2 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 34 hours after it began.

What is the wipe schedule on Starlight After Dark | Halloween 2X |?

No next wipe can be predicted for Starlight After Dark | Halloween 2X |: its wipes happen 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. Its current world has been live for 10 days 14 hours.

The rules

Which map does Starlight After Dark | Halloween 2X | run?

A procedural map of 3,500 with seed 116945 is what Starlight After Dark | Halloween 2X | runs, made by the game. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map. The map name, as written, is Starlight After Dark.

What are the rules and settings on Starlight After Dark | Halloween 2X |?

Gather comes at 2x on Starlight After Dark | Halloween 2X |, according to its name. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. survival is the game mode, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Raids and PvP are both on the table. The server browser files it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. The plugin count is Carbon. The server's own word for it is vanilla: facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

How to join

How do I join Starlight After Dark | Halloween 2X |?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 216.39.240.117:27500. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. You can find its website at https://discord.com/invite/dtsEQ95Zb.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp90,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^z,^y,^v,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp90
Max players It has 90 slots.
ts8
Group limit The default team size of 8 applies here.
v2635
Protocol The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join.
cs168909
Build It's on game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules.

Mods and access

^z
Modded Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded.
^y
Carbon This server uses Carbon for plugins.

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.