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RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU

Online EU 168.100.161.237:28019 checked 6m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 100 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average2peak 9
Rank#2,347top 11% · #904 in EU
RegionEUEU · group 100 max
Last wipe6d agoweekly schedule
Next wipe6hThu 29 Oct, 15:54 UTC
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123410:0019:0004:0012:0022:0007:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608010:0019:0004:0012:0022:0007:00

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
11k2k3k4k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 11% of all ranked servers, top 31% in EU. 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
7
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
20%
crowd held
else halves by day 3.5

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

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 9, 4 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 22 Oct, 15:54 UTC6d ago 9 – running 2
Thu 15 Oct, 15:53 UTC13d ago 5 held half 7 days 1
Thu 8 Oct, 15:54 UTC20d ago 6 halved by day 6 7 days 3
Thu 1 Oct, 17:54 UTC FW27d ago 11 halved by day 2 6.9 days 2
Thu 24 Sep, 15:53 UTC34d ago 14 halved by day 3 7.1 days 1
Thu 17 Sep, 15:54 UTC41d ago 9 halved by day 4 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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The interview

Quick answers

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Server tags

Who runs RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU?

A rustfornoobs.com hostname is published by RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU and by 51 other servers we track, so they most likely share an operator.

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

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU: Who's hot: beginner Rust servers, European Rust servers, live, Community servers, by the numbers and Vanilla Rust servers, live. It appears under these filters 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: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Weekly; Last wipe: In the last week.

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

The game's server browser picks up these tags from RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp100 (Max players): There are 100 slots; ts100 (Group limit): Teams cap at 100 players; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^w (Weekly): Every week brings a wipe; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it; ^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 | Weekly | EU rank against other Rust servers?

For the last seven days of player hours, RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU sits at #2,347, inside the top 11% of ranked servers and at #904 in Europe.

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

RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU is holding 0 players, with 100 slots in total. Averaging 2 players across seven days, it topped out at 9. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 19:00 UTC, averaging 4 players.

About the server

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

As of now, RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU is online. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 1 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 99%, with 167 out of 168 hours online. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.

Does RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 28 server fps, with a low of 10. Entities reached a maximum of 96,104: buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 4,070 MB. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

Where is RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU located?

RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU uses its EU tag to list itself in Europe. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 168.100.161.237:28019.

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

On Windows, RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe times

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

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 7 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 4 hours in. Its recent wipes kept the crowd above half the peak until the next one 20% of the time. If it did not hold, half the peak was gone by day 3.5.

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

RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU keeps to a every Thursday at 15:54 UTC wipe rhythm. Thursday 29 October at 15:54 UTC is the date its next wipe is due. Its current world has been live for 6 days 17 hours. Its tags carry a wipe schedule that runs weekly.

Rules and settings

Which map does RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU run?

The procedural map on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU measures 3,750 and comes from the game with seed 18044. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map. The map name, as written, is RustForNoobs Generated Maps.

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

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU. Teams can reach 100 players. survival is the game mode, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser lists it under Community. Oxide plugins power it. The server's own word for it is vanilla: no changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

How to join

How do I join RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU?

Enter client.connect 168.100.161.237:28019 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically. You can find its website at https://rustfornoobs.com.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^w,^v,EU,gmrust,cs168909,ts100,^o

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp100
Max players There are 100 slots.
ts100
Group limit Teams cap at 100 players.
v2635
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Wipe schedule

^w
Weekly Every week brings a wipe.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it.

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.