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RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU

Online EU 168.100.161.237:28014 checked 13m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 7/ 100 slots 7% full +3+87%against this time yesterday
7-day average48peak 216
Rank#360top 2% · #185 in EU
RegionEUEU · group solo
Last wipe6d agoweekly schedule
Next wipe6hThu 29 Oct, 15:54 UTC
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
01020304010:0019:0004:0013:0023:0008:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608010:0019:0004:0013:0023:0008:00

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.

Climbing the charts

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
120040060080020 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 2% of all ranked servers, top 6% in EU, and #11 of the solo servers (top 5%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

fixed weekdays

Next wipe Thursday 29 October, 15:54 UTC, in 6h. Every Thursday at 15:54 UTC · high confidence

7 days
usual gap
between real wipes
100%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
201
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 3

Coming wipes

6hThu 29 Oct, 15:54 UTC
7d 9hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
14d 6hThu 12 Nov, 15:54 UTC
21d 6hThu 19 Nov, 15:54 UTC
28d 6hThu 26 Nov, 15:54 UTC
35d 9hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
42d 6hThu 10 Dec, 15:54 UTC

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 22 OctThu 15 OctThu 8 Oct
0100200300400+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 216, 5 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 22 Oct, 15:54 UTC6d ago 216 – running 48
Thu 15 Oct, 15:54 UTC13d ago 188 halved by day 3 7 days 34
Thu 8 Oct, 15:55 UTC20d ago 199 halved by day 2 7 days 39
Thu 1 Oct, 17:48 UTC FW27d ago 176 halved by day 3 6.9 days 26
Thu 24 Sep, 15:54 UTC34d ago 206 halved by day 4 7.1 days 51
Thu 17 Sep, 15:54 UTC41d ago 183 halved by day 3 7 days 13

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

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Tags

Who runs RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU?

RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU and 51 other servers we track publish a rustfornoobs.com hostname, which points to one operator behind them.

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU: Who's hot: beginner Rust servers, European Rust servers, live, Community servers, by the numbers, Solo Rust servers, by the numbers and Vanilla Rust servers, live. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Region: Europe; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Weekly ^w, Vanilla ^v and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Solo; Wipe schedule: Weekly; Last wipe: In the last week; Average players: 25+ on average.

What do the server tags on RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU mean?

These are the tags RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp100 (Max players): There are 100 slots; ts1 (Group limit): Teams cap at 1 players; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^w (Weekly): Every week brings a wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here; EU (Europe): The server browser lists it under Europe. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

The players

How does RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU rank against other Rust servers?

For the last seven days of player hours, RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU sits at #360, inside the top 2% of ranked servers and at #185 in Europe. The solo field places it at #11.

How many players are on RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU right now?

The current tally at RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU: 7 players across 100 slots. Peak for the week was 216, against an average of 48 players. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 17:00 UTC, averaging 21 players.

About the server

Is RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU online, and how reliable is it?

RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU is live at the moment. About 2 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. 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 RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 50 server fps, with a low of 46. At its peak it held 168,725 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. The highest memory usage was 5,428 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU located?

In Europe, RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU lists itself with its EU tag. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 168.100.161.237:28014.

Which Rust version is RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU on?

On Windows, RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

Wipe days

What happens on RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 201 players. 5 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that happened in 0% of its recent wipes. In the wipes that didn't hold, the crowd sank below half by day 3.

What is the wipe schedule on RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU?

RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU keeps to a every Thursday at 15:54 UTC wipe rhythm. Come Thursday 29 October at 15:54 UTC, the next wipe is expected. The world it is running now dates from 6 days 17 hours. Weekly is the wipe rhythm its tags set out.

The rules

Which map does RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU run?

Generated by the game with seed 18044, the map on RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU is procedural and 3,500 in size. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map. RustForNoobs Generated Maps is how the map name reads.

What are the rules and settings on RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU?

No gather rate appears in the name of RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU. Solo play only: teams are not allowed. survival is the game mode, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. It appears under Community in the browser. The plugin count is Oxide. Vanilla is what it calls itself: facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.

Getting in

How do I join RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 168.100.161.237:28014. 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,^w,^v,EU,gmrust,cs168909,ts1,^o

Game

gmrust
Game mode Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp100
Max players There are 100 slots.
ts1
Group limit Teams cap at 1 players.
v2635
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Wipe schedule

^w
Weekly Every week brings a wipe.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules.

Mods and access

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

Region

EU
Europe The server browser lists it 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.