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RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US

Online NA 64.40.8.61:28029 checked 12m ago

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Atomic mass · players now 10/ 150 7% full Room to join
7-day average5peak 17
Rank · atomic number#1,436top 6% · #213 in NA
Last wipe26d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe8d 16hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
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
02.557.51003:0012:0021:0006:0015:0000:00

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
02040608003:0012:0021:0006:0015:0000:00

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
15001k1.5k2k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 6% of all ranked servers, top 11% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

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Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 16h. The force wipe · high confidence

wipe-day peak38players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

  1. 8d 16hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
  2. 36d 16hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

010203040+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 38, 7 hours in.

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Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:49 UTC FW26d ago 38 – running 2

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 | Monthly | US?

RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US runs a procedural map of size 3,750 with seed 14057; 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 settings and rules apply on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US?

No gather rate appears in the name of RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US. Group size is capped at 100 players. survival is the game mode, raiding, building and gathering: the standard game. Raids and player fights are part of play here. The server browser lists it under Community. The plugin count is Oxide. By its own description it is vanilla: facepunch's game, with no altered rates, kits or rules. Anti-cheat is on: Valve's VAC.

Server details

Which location is RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US based in?

RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US gives North America as its location, using the NA tag. Rust Data Lab shows a server's stated location, not a verified position of the machine. You will find it at 64.40.8.61:28029.

Which Rust version is RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US on?

On Windows, RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US is running Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Your game needs to match the protocol to join, and Steam updates it automatically.

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

At the moment, RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US is online. About 12 hours ago is when it last restarted, based on its uptime. It was online for 167 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, which is 99% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Data Lab was on 13 September 2026.

Is RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US known for smooth running?

The last 48 hours show an average of 78 server fps and a minimum of 68. The entity count reached 126,018, including buildings, deployables and all other world items. Up to 4,213 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Wipes and resets

What is the wiping pattern on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US?

The only wipe on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US is the monthly force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is when this server next wipes, along with every other Rust server. The world it is running now dates from 26 days 8 hours ago. Its tags set out a wipe schedule of once a month.

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

At their busiest, recent wipes averaged 38 players. Peak numbers on the latest wipe came 7 hours in.

Tags, lists

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

These are the tags RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US makes public for the server browser to read: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp150 (Max players): It has 150 slots; ts100 (Group limit): The team limit is 100; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2635, so your game needs the same version; cs168909 (Build): It runs build 168909; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the standard layer; $r? (Region code): A region code has not been set here; ^m (Monthly): Wipes happen monthly, at the force wipe; ^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. Also in the tags are the players on now, the queue length and the world's creation time, and you can see them at the top of this page.

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

The Rust Data Lab lists that include RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US are: 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: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Players now: At least 10.

Whose server is RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | 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 | Monthly | US.

Population

What position does RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US hold among Rust servers?

Player hours for the past seven days give RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US #1,436, #213 in North America, and a place in the top 6% of ranked servers.

What does the current player count on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US tell you?

At the moment RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US has 10 of its 150 slots filled. A seven-day sample gives 5 players on average and 17 at the top. Over 48 hours, the highest average fell at 03:00 UTC, at 8 players.

Getting on

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

In Rust, press F1 and enter client.connect 64.40.8.61:28029. Or click Launch Rust here to open Rust via Steam and connect automatically. You can find its website at https://rustfornoobs.com.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp150,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,NA,gmrust,cs168909,ts100,^o

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp150
Max players It has 150 slots.
ts100
Group limit The team limit is 100.
v2635
Protocol The server runs protocol 2635, so your game needs the same version.
cs168909
Build It runs build 168909.
ptrak
Networking This runs on RakNet, the standard layer.
$r?
Region code A region code has not been set here.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Wipes happen monthly, at the force wipe.

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.