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Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins

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Vital stats

Players now 1/ 100 slots 1% full −2−67%against this time yesterday
7-day average3peak 14
Rank#1,783top 8%
Region–no continent published · group quad
Last wipe7d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no rhythm it keeps
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0246809:0019:0004:0012:0021:0006:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

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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.

Climbing the charts

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
11k2k3k4k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct14 Oct22 Oct30 Oct

Top 8% of all ranked servers, and #93 of the quad servers (top 11%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

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.

13 days
usual gap
between real wipes
67%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
12
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 5

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 22 OctThu 15 OctThu 1 Oct
05101520+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 13, 4 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 22 Oct, 21:33 UTC7d ago 13 – running 0
Thu 15 Oct, 21:32 UTC14d ago 10 halved by day 4 7 days 1
Thu 1 Oct, 20:15 UTC FW28d ago 14 halved by day 5 14.1 days 1
Fri 18 Sep, 21:07 UTC41d ago 9 halved by day 7 13 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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The interview

Quick answers

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Server tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins: Who's hot: beginner Rust servers and Community servers, by the numbers. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Oxide ^o; Group limit: Quad; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

What do the server tags on Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins mean?

These are the tags Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins publishes for the browser: gmvanilla (Game mode): Survival in vanilla form; mp100 (Max players): It has 100 slots; ts4 (Group limit): Each team is capped at 4; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over the last week rank Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins at #1,783, within the top 8% of ranked servers. The quad field places it at #93.

How many players are on Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins right now?

The current tally at Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins: 1 players across 100 slots. Peak for the week was 14, against an average of 3 players. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 15:00 UTC, averaging 7 players.

About the server

Is Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins is up and running. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 7 days 8 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 99%, with 167 out of 168 hours online. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 30, with 30 as the lowest. The world carried as many as 81,929 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 4,241 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins located?

No region is published by Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. You'll find it at 15.204.198.173:28015.

Which Rust version is Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins runs on Linux. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

The wipe schedule

What happens on Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 12 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 4 hours after it began. Its recent wipes kept the crowd above half the peak until the next one 0% of the time. The crowd fell under half by day 5 whenever it did not hold.

What is the wipe schedule on Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins?

No next wipe can be predicted for Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins: its wipes happen at irregular times. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives, and every Rust server wipes with it at monthly intervals. 7 days 10 hours is when the present world was made.

Rules and settings

Which map does Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins run?

The procedural map on Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins measures 3,500 and comes from the game with seed 1382175453. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.

What are the rules and settings on Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins?

The name of Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins says nothing about gather rate. A group can hold 4 players at most (quad). survival is the game mode, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Raids and PvP are both on the table. Community is its listing in the server browser. The plugin count is Oxide. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

Getting in

How do I join Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 15.204.198.173:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. For more, see https://startingtorust.com/.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmvanilla,cs168909,ts4,^o

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode Survival in vanilla form.
mp100
Max players It has 100 slots.
ts4
Group limit Each team is capped at 4.
v2635
Protocol The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here.

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.