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RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | US

Online NA 64.40.8.149:28019 checked 2h ago

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Atomic mass · players now 0/ 150 0% full Room to join
7-day average1peak 8
Rank · atomic number#2,716top 12% · #443 in NA
Last wipe5d agoweekly schedule
Next wipe1d 2hThu 29 Oct, 21:53 UTC
Result 01

Players

Method
Every five minutes for the last two hours, from the Steam server list; hourly average and peak over 48 hours; daily average and peak over 90 days. UTC. Dashed lines are its wipes and the force wipes.
Result
AveragePeak
00.511.5220:0005:0014:0023:0008:0017:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Result 02

Server performance

Method
Asked of the server itself, hour by hour and day by day: its frame rate, the entities in its world and the memory it holds.
Result
02040608020:0005:0014:0023:0008:0017:00

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 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.

Result 03

Rank

Result

daily · 1 is best

RankRank in region
11k2k3k4k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 12% of all ranked servers, top 24% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

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Wipe schedule

fixed weekdays

Next wipe Thursday 29 October, 21:53 UTC, in 1d 2h. Every Thursday at 21:53 UTC · high confidence

usual gap7 daysbetween real wipes
on rhythm100%of its recent wipes
wipe-day peak5players, last three wipes
crowd held20%else halves by day 4.5

Coming wipes

  1. 1d 2hThu 29 Oct, 21:53 UTC
  2. 7d 23hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
  3. 15d 2hThu 12 Nov, 21:53 UTC
  4. 22d 2hThu 19 Nov, 21:53 UTC
  5. 29d 2hThu 26 Nov, 21:53 UTC
  6. 35d 23hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
  7. 43d 2hThu 10 Dec, 21:53 UTC

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 22 OctThu 15 OctThu 8 Oct
02468+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 7, 28 hours in.

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Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 22 Oct, 21:53 UTC5d ago 7 – running 2
Thu 15 Oct, 21:53 UTC12d ago 5 halved by day 5 7 days 1
Thu 8 Oct, 21:53 UTC19d ago 4 held half 7 days 0
Thu 1 Oct, 17:49 UTC FW27d ago 7 halved by day 3 7.2 days 1
Thu 24 Sep, 21:53 UTC33d ago 11 halved by day 4 6.8 days 2
Thu 17 Sep, 21:53 UTC40d ago 10 halved by day 6 7 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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Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Server setup

What map is in play on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | US?

RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | US runs a procedural map of size 3,750 with seed 23045; the game generates it. Same size and seed give the same map, so this page lets you look at it on RustMaps. On the map name: RustForNoobs Generated Maps.

What rules has RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | US set, and what settings are in force?

Nothing in the name of RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | US gives a gather rate. Group size is capped at 32 players. survival is the game mode, raiding, building and gathering: the standard game. You can fight other players and raid them. You will find it under Community in the server browser. Oxide plugins are running on it. By its own description it is vanilla: facepunch's game, with no altered rates, kits or rules. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.

About the server

In what location does RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | US sit?

With its NA tag, RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | US places itself in North America. The location shown is the one a server states; Rust Data Lab does not check where the machine actually stands. Connect at 64.40.8.149:28019.

What Rust version does RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | US currently run?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | US uses. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.

Does RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | US stay up, and how reliable is its uptime?

RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | US is live as of now. The uptime it reports suggests it restarted roughly 4 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours were online, giving 100% uptime. It first appeared to Rust Data Lab on 13 September 2026.

Does RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | US hold a steady performance?

The last 48 hours show an average of 58 server fps and a minimum of 10. The maximum entity count was 93,954, covering buildings, deployables and all else in the world. The highest memory usage was 3,686 MB. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

Wipe schedule

When does RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | US wipe, and how often?

Wipes on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | US follow this rhythm: every Thursday at 21:53 UTC. The wipe after this one is due on Thursday 29 October at 21:53 UTC. The world it is running now dates from 5 days 21 hours ago. Its tags carry a weekly wipe schedule.

How does RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | US look on the day of a wipe?

At their busiest, recent wipes averaged 5 players. Peak numbers on the latest wipe came 28 hours in. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 20% of its recent wipes. In the other cases, half the peak was lost by day 4.5.

Where it appears

Which meanings sit behind the tags on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | US?

The game's server browser reads the tags RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | US publishes, which are gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp150 (Max players): It has 150 slots; ts32 (Group limit): Teams cap at 32 players; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2635, so your game needs the same version; cs168909 (Build): Build number: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game; $r? (Region code): The region field is left blank; ^w (Weekly): Wipes happen once a week; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, with no altered rates, kits or rules; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) powers the plugins; NA (North America): North America is where the browser lists this server. The tags carry more as well: current players, the queue and when the world was made, all shown at the top of this page.

Where among the Rust Data Lab lists and filters does RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | US come up?

These themed Rust Data Lab lists carry RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | US: Beginner-tagged Rust servers, measured, Rust community servers, measured, North American Rust servers: the sample and Vanilla Rust servers, measured. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Weekly ^w, Vanilla ^v and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Weekly; Last wipe: In the last week.

Who is behind RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | US?

51 other servers we track publish a rustfornoobs.com hostname as well, which makes one operator the likely runner of them and RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | US.

Population

Against other Rust servers, where does RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | US place?

Player hours for the past seven days give RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | US #2,716, #443 in North America, and a place in the top 12% of ranked servers.

How full is RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | US right now?

RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | US currently shows 0 players across 150 slots. The week's figures average 1 players and top out at 8. Over 48 hours, the highest average fell at 06:00 UTC, at 2 players.

Getting on

What steps get you onto RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | US?

You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and entering client.connect 64.40.8.149:28019, or by pressing Launch Rust here, which starts the game through Steam and joins for you. For more, visit https://rustfornoobs.com.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp150,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^w,^v,NA,gmrust,cs168909,ts32,^o

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp150
Max players It has 150 slots.
ts32
Group limit Teams cap at 32 players.
v2635
Protocol The server runs protocol 2635, so your game needs the same version.
cs168909
Build Build number: 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game.
$r?
Region code The region field is left blank.

Wipe schedule

^w
Weekly Wipes happen once a week.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Facepunch's game, with no altered rates, kits or rules.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) powers the plugins.

Region

NA
North America North America is where the browser lists this server.

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.