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RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Monthly | EU

Online EU 168.100.161.237:28029 checked 10m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 2/ 100 slots 2% full −3−58%against this time yesterday
7-day average4peak 12
Rank#1,550top 7% · #616 in EU
RegionEUEU · group solo
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 19hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0246800:0009:0018:0003:0012:0022:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608000:0009:0018:0003:0012:0022:00

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 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 7% of all ranked servers, top 21% in EU, and #72 of the solo servers (top 33%). 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 19h. The force wipe · high confidence

17
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

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

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

05101520+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 17, 1 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:48 UTC FW27d ago 17 – running 3

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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Lists and tags

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

The same operator most likely runs RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Monthly | EU and 51 other servers we track, since all publish a rustfornoobs.com hostname.

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

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Monthly | 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 filters bring it up on the server list: Region: Europe; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Solo; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

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

The game's server browser picks up these tags from RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Monthly | EU: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp100 (Max players): It has 100 slots; ts1 (Group limit): Each team is capped at 1; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): It's on game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force 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. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

Player counts

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

RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Monthly | EU takes #1,550 on seven-day player hours, a top 7% spot overall and #616 across Europe. The solo field places it at #72.

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

RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Monthly | EU is holding 2 players, with 100 slots in total. Peak for the week was 12, against an average of 4 players. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 19:00 UTC, averaging 7 players.

Server details

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

As of now, RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Monthly | EU is online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 16 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 100%, with 168 out of 168 hours online. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Monthly | EU run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 48, and it never went below 10. At its peak it held 98,936 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Up to 3,718 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

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

RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Monthly | 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. Connect at 168.100.161.237:28029.

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

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

The wipe schedule

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

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 17 players at their busiest. 1 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

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

Wipes on RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Monthly | EU come once a month, alongside the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives: its next wipe, and one that hits every Rust server. The world it is running now dates from 27 days 5 hours. The tags hold a monthly wipe schedule.

Map and rules

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

A procedural map of 3,500 with seed 13707 is what RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Monthly | EU runs, made by the game. 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 | Monthly | EU?

The name of RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Monthly | EU says nothing about gather rate. You play alone, because the server is solo only. It runs survival, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Community is its listing in the server browser. The plugin count is Oxide. The server's own word for it is vanilla: 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 | Monthly | EU?

Enter client.connect 168.100.161.237:28029 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically. For more, see https://rustfornoobs.com.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,EU,gmrust,cs168909,ts1,^o

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp100
Max players It has 100 slots.
ts1
Group limit Each team is capped at 1.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635.
cs168909
Build It's on game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code No region code has been set.

Wipe schedule

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