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November 12, 2026
ROB RUN / Multiplayer field guide

How to find a fresh server in ROB RUN

The State Selection screen gives each world a lifetime. Read that column before you commit to a new city or ask friends to leave theirs.

An armed crew at a jewelry counter in ROB RUN. Kefir via Steam.By David Bennett

To find a fresh ROB RUN server, open State Selection as you escape prison, check the displayed region and compare the Lifetime column. Pick an available state with the shortest elapsed time. A low Lifetime identifies a newly opened state. The captured list gives no last-raid timestamp for that ID. If you are meeting friends, send them the state ID before anyone confirms.

Two historical State Selection rows show Santa Rio, EU-0 3317, at 22m, and Shadow Plains, EU-0 5199, at 1h.
Santa Rio showed 22 minutes. Shadow Plains showed one hour. The younger state was Santa Rio. ROB RUN by Kefir. Screenshot via Kolba at XBoosty. Full-size image

Read the row before you run

In the prison cell, look for the Escape prompt at the poster to open State Selection. Look for the state’s ID alongside its name. In one captured European list, two entries are both called Pine Mirador. Their IDs end in 5838 and 3998. If a friend says only “Pine Mirador,” you could both follow the instructions perfectly and still end up on different servers. Use the ID search to narrow the list and compare the full result.

Orange-clad prisoners gather around benches in a two-story cell block while a player faces the crowded room.
The prison common room in ROB RUN. Prison is where a new player can choose a state during escape. Kefir via Steam. Full-size image

Population answers a different question. Two captures show Dusty Costa, EU-0 3167, at 27 minutes old with Medium population and later at 9 hours 19 minutes with Large population. It is the same state. The screenshots illustrate how to compare rows. Those ages and population labels were recorded when the images were taken. Use the values on your own screen when you choose.

The highlighted Dusty Costa row shows ID EU-0 3167, Medium population and 27m Lifetime.
Dusty Costa, EU-0 3167, reads 27m under Lifetime and Medium under Population. ROB RUN by Kefir. Screenshot via T-Pose Gaming. Full-size image
The fourth row lists Dusty Costa, EU-0 3167, with Large population and a Lifetime of 9h 19m.
In another capture, the same ID reads 9h 19m and Large. These are historical examples, not current server values. ROB RUN by Kefir. Screenshot via T-Pose Gaming. Full-size image

When new EU and East US states open

Kefir’s announced daily openings are 17:00 UTC for EU and 8 p.m. Eastern for East US. On Thursday, November 12, those work out to 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. US Central, respectively. The East US opening falls at 01:00 UTC on November 13. Kefir also allows additional servers to open as demand requires, so it is worth checking Lifetime outside those windows.

If someone says a server “just wiped,” ask for the ID and check Lifetime. A new opening creates a state you can select. A Federal Raid ends a cycle of play. Kefir says it converts plots, bases, weapons and cash into jail time and authority every seven days. Cosmetics, player names, tutorial progress, settings and accumulated jail time carry over. The regional opening hours alone cannot tell you when a particular state last had a raid.

On November 11, Kefir announced the first raid for servers that opened on November 4. Players on those states had until 17:00 UTC that day before the first Federal Raid. The studio also confirmed that each server lives for seven days. A separate November 12 notice announced a restart to install fixes and improve stability. If you saw that notice this morning, it gave you no reason to assume your state had just begun a new cycle.

A hexagonal territory map follows a road across desert plots and a cluster of colored regions.
A shared world on Kefir’s map. Its territory is distinct from the region-wide schedule for new state openings. Kefir via Steam. Full-size image

Check your current state before you surrender

Two uniformed officers aim across a line of patrol cars toward a man standing near bags on the sidewalk.
A police standoff on a city street. The voluntary surrender described below starts in the game’s menus. Kefir via Steam. Full-size image

Already playing? The main menu can show the current server’s lifetime just above RUN. In a Russian-language capture the value is one day and sixteen hours, labeled as the time the server has existed. You can check that age without abandoning your run.

Moving an existing character is a bigger decision. For a cross-server party, Kefir directs the player who is moving to open the global map, select Prison, choose Surrender to Feds, switch to the friend’s server inside prison and then resend the invite. The surrender prompt says you give up all property and receive a prison sentence. Read it before confirming the move. If everyone is starting from prison, agree on the region and the exact ID first. One person can read the number aloud while the others find the same row.

Settings shows Surrender To Feds. The warning says the character goes to jail and loses all property.
The surrender screen warns that the character goes to jail and loses all property. ROB RUN by Kefir. Screenshot via T-Pose Gaming. Full-size image

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