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Specimen recordcat. no. 15,341habitat unknownfirst seen 8 Oct 2026

Midnight Rider

Online 157.85.94.108:28015 checked 9m ago

Measurements

Players now
0/ 40
0% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#15,341
top 69%
Last wipe
10d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
no rhythm it keeps
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123407:0016:0001:0010:0020:0005:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

010020030040007:0016:0001:0010:0020:0005:00

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.

Obs. 3 · standing

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k8 Oct12 Oct16 Oct21 Oct25 Oct29 Oct

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

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

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.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sun 18 Oct, 19:58 UTC10d ago 1 – running 0
Sat 10 Oct, 22:33 UTC18d ago 2 halved by day 1 7.9 days 1
Sat 10 Oct, 01:09 UTC19d ago 2 – 0.9 days 0
Thu 8 Oct, 19:04 UTC20d 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.

Field questions

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Population

How does Midnight Rider rank against other Rust servers?

Over the past week it ranks #15,341 for player hours, which puts Midnight Rider in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Midnight Rider?

Midnight Rider holds 0 players at the moment, out of 40 slots. Counted over seven days: an average of 0 players.

Tags

What do the server tags on Midnight Rider mean?

What the game's server browser reads from Midnight Rider is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp40 (Max players): The server has 40 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2634 (Protocol): The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect; cs167781 (Build): Game build: 167781; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank. 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 Midnight Rider?

These Rust Population lists include Midnight Rider: Community servers, field-listed. Look for it 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.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on Midnight Rider?

Averaged over recent wipes, 2 players were counted at the busiest point. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 1 hours in. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. The crowd dropped below half by day 1 when it did not hold.

What is the wipe schedule on Midnight Rider?

No next wipe can be predicted for Midnight Rider, which wipes at irregular times. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe comes round, and every Rust server wipes with it. The world it runs now dates from 10 days 10 hours ago.

Map and rules

Which map does Midnight Rider run?

A procedural map of size 1,700 from seed 50000, generated by the game, is in use on Midnight Rider. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map.

What are the rules and settings on Midnight Rider?

Nothing in Midnight Rider's name says how gather works. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. You get survival here, raid, build and gather: the standard game. You can raid and fight other players here. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

About the server

Which version of Rust does Midnight Rider run?

On Linux, Midnight Rider runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Does Midnight Rider run smoothly?

It ran at 232 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 213. Up to 10,751 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 4,228 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Is Midnight Rider online, and how reliable is it?

Midnight Rider is up and running at the moment. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 10 days 9 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, or 99%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 8 October 2026.

Where is Midnight Rider located?

No region is published by Midnight Rider. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. 157.85.94.108:28015 is where it lives.

Getting in

How do I join Midnight Rider?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 157.85.94.108:28015. Joining from this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

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

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp40
Max players The server has 40 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2634
Protocol The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect.
cs167781
Build Game build: 167781.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

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.