LiveLive coverage · NA
The count
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Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
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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.
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Top 69% of all ranked servers, top 81% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Coming up · wipe schedule
from its schedule tag
Next wipe Friday 30 October, 09:07 UTC, in 1d 1h. Its weekly schedule tag · low confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 10 hours in.
The current map
Friday 25 September 2026, 09:07 UTC
Wipe
Thursday 24 September 2026, 14:52 UTC
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.
At their busiest, its recent wipes averaged 2 players. Peak population on the latest wipe came 10 hours after it.
Midwest Staging Server's schedule cannot be confirmed from the wipes recorded, so its tag drives the prediction. Expect the next wipe on Friday 30 October at 09:07 UTC. The world you are playing on was built 34 days 13 hours. The tags list wipes as weekly.
These are the Rust Live Stats lists Midwest Staging Server fits: Live Rust community servers and North America Rust servers, live. These filters on the server list bring it up: 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.
gmrust (Game mode): Survival here follows standard Rust; mp100 (Max players): Slots: 100; ts12 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 12; v2635 (Protocol): Join only if your game is on protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer — the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): The server sets no region code; ^w (Weekly): Wipes: every week; NA (North America): The server browser places this server under North America: that is the tag list Midwest Staging Server publishes for the game's server browser. Players now, queue length and world creation time are carried in the tags too, and appear at the top of this page.
Midwest Staging Server is carrying 0 players at the moment, with 100 slots in total. Across the past week the average was 0 players.
North America places Midwest Staging Server at #1,509; overall it is #15,339, inside the top 69% of ranked servers, by seven-day player hours.
No gather rate appears in the name Midwest Staging Server. Group size tops out at 12 players. It runs survival, the standard game: gather, build, raid. You can raid and fight other players. You find it under Community in the server browser. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
Midwest Staging Server runs a game-generated procedural map: size 4,500, seed 2797472621. Same size, same seed, same map: RustMaps has it, reachable from this page.
Its NA tag places Midwest Staging Server in North America. The location shown on Rust Live Stats is the one a server gives, not a lookup of the machine's position. 216.245.176.210:28015 is its address.
The average server fps was 95 over the last 48 hours; the lowest was 67. It supported up to 146,692 entities, covering buildings, deployables and all other objects. Memory use peaked at 3,498 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what Midwest Staging Server runs. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
Midwest Staging Server is up and running at this moment. About 21 hours ago is when it last restarted, according to its uptime. It was online for 167 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, or 99% of the time. On 13 September 2026, Rust Live Stats saw it for the first time.
Enter client.connect 216.245.176.210:28015 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you. You can find its website at https://discord.com/invite/RnZSuvqXjW.