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RustForNoobs.com | Main | Softcore Monthly | No BP Wipe | EU

Online EU 168.100.161.18:28049 checked 10m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 100 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average2peak 10
Rank#2,389top 11% · #919 in EU
RegionEUEU · group quad
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 13hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
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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 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 11% of all ranked servers, top 31% in EU, and #137 of the quad servers (top 17%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 13h. The force wipe · high confidence

7
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 13hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 13hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

02468+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 7, 25 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:49 UTC FW27d ago 7 – running 1

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

From the figures on this page.

Tags

Who runs RustForNoobs.com | Main | Softcore Monthly | No BP Wipe | EU?

The same operator most likely runs RustForNoobs.com | Main | Softcore Monthly | No BP Wipe | EU and 51 other servers we track, since all publish a rustfornoobs.com hostname.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include RustForNoobs.com | Main | Softcore Monthly | No BP Wipe | EU?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include RustForNoobs.com | Main | Softcore Monthly | No BP Wipe | EU: Who's hot: beginner Rust servers, European Rust servers, live and Community servers, by the numbers. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Region: Europe; Type: Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Game mode: Softcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Softcore ^s and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

What do the server tags on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Softcore Monthly | No BP Wipe | EU mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from RustForNoobs.com | Main | Softcore Monthly | No BP Wipe | EU: gmsoftcore (Game mode): An easier ruleset, softcore; mp100 (Max players): There are 100 slots; ts4 (Group limit): No team can exceed 4 players; 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): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^s (Softcore): Facepunch's softcore mode lets you keep some inventory after dying; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs; EU (Europe): In the server browser it sits under Europe. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

Population

How does RustForNoobs.com | Main | Softcore Monthly | No BP Wipe | EU rank against other Rust servers?

For the last seven days of player hours, RustForNoobs.com | Main | Softcore Monthly | No BP Wipe | EU sits at #2,389, inside the top 11% of ranked servers and at #919 in Europe. Within the quad category, it sits at #137.

How many players are on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Softcore Monthly | No BP Wipe | EU right now?

RustForNoobs.com | Main | Softcore Monthly | No BP Wipe | EU is holding 0 players, with 100 slots in total. Peak for the week was 10, against an average of 2 players. Look at 01:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 4 players on average.

Server details

Is RustForNoobs.com | Main | Softcore Monthly | No BP Wipe | EU online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, RustForNoobs.com | Main | Softcore Monthly | No BP Wipe | EU is up and running. About 22 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 167, a 99% uptime. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does RustForNoobs.com | Main | Softcore Monthly | No BP Wipe | EU run smoothly?

Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 34, with 10 as the lowest. The world carried as many as 100,259 entities, including buildings and deployables. Up to 3,505 MB of memory was used. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is RustForNoobs.com | Main | Softcore Monthly | No BP Wipe | EU located?

With its EU tag, RustForNoobs.com | Main | Softcore Monthly | No BP Wipe | EU lists itself in Europe. 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 168.100.161.18:28049.

Which Rust version is RustForNoobs.com | Main | Softcore Monthly | No BP Wipe | EU on?

On Windows, RustForNoobs.com | Main | Softcore Monthly | No BP Wipe | EU runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

The wipe schedule

What happens on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Softcore Monthly | No BP Wipe | EU when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 7 players. 25 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

What is the wipe schedule on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Softcore Monthly | No BP Wipe | EU?

Wipes on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Softcore Monthly | No BP Wipe | EU come once a month, alongside the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. The world it is running now dates from 27 days 11 hours. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.

Map and rules

Which map does RustForNoobs.com | Main | Softcore Monthly | No BP Wipe | EU run?

A procedural map of 3,750 with seed 13942 is what RustForNoobs.com | Main | Softcore Monthly | No BP Wipe | EU runs, made by the game. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map. RustForNoobs Generated Maps is how the map name reads.

What are the rules and settings on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Softcore Monthly | No BP Wipe | EU?

No gather rate appears in the name of RustForNoobs.com | Main | Softcore Monthly | No BP Wipe | EU. The cap on groups is 4 players (quad). softcore is the game mode, Facepunch's easier setting, with part of your loot kept. Raids and PvP are both on the table. The server browser lists it under Community. The plugin count is Oxide. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Join up

How do I join RustForNoobs.com | Main | Softcore Monthly | No BP Wipe | EU?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 168.100.161.18:28049. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. For more, see https://rustfornoobs.com.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^s,EU,gmsoftcore,cs168909,ts4,^o

Game

gmsoftcore
Game mode An easier ruleset, softcore.
mp100
Max players There are 100 slots.
ts4
Group limit No team can exceed 4 players.
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 RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region code has been set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

^s
Softcore Facepunch's softcore mode lets you keep some inventory after dying.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs.

Region

EU
Europe In the server browser it sits under Europe.

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.