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Vital stats

Players now 7/ 100 slots 7% full −1−17%against this time yesterday
7-day average102peak 401
Rank#171top 0.8% · #36 in NA
RegionNANA · group duo
Last wipe6d agoweekly schedule
Next wipe7hThu 29 Oct, 21:53 UTC
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
110020030040020 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 0.8% of all ranked servers, top 2% in NA, and #9 of the duo servers (top 2%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

fixed weekdays

Next wipe Thursday 29 October, 21:53 UTC, in 7h. Every Thursday at 21:53 UTC · high confidence

7 days
usual gap
between real wipes
100%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
382
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 3

Coming wipes

7hThu 29 Oct, 21:53 UTC
7d 4hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
14d 7hThu 12 Nov, 21:53 UTC
21d 7hThu 19 Nov, 21:53 UTC
28d 7hThu 26 Nov, 21:53 UTC
35d 4hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
42d 7hThu 10 Dec, 21:53 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 401, 2 hours in, with 49 in the queue.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 22 Oct, 21:53 UTC6d ago 401+49 queue – running 57
Thu 15 Oct, 21:53 UTC13d ago 371+23 queue halved by day 3 7 days 58
Thu 8 Oct, 21:53 UTC20d ago 375+31 queue halved by day 3 7 days 83
Thu 1 Oct, 17:49 UTC FW27d ago 296+1 queue halved by day 3 7.2 days 10
Thu 24 Sep, 21:53 UTC34d ago 301+53 queue halved by day 4 6.8 days 63
Thu 17 Sep, 21:53 UTC41d ago 300+33 queue halved by day 4 7 days 19

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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Tags

Who runs RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Weekly | US?

RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Weekly | US 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/Duo | Weekly | US?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Weekly | US: Who's hot: beginner Rust servers, Duo servers, live, Community servers, by the numbers, North America: who's hot right now and Vanilla Rust servers, live. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Weekly ^w, Vanilla ^v and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Duo; Wipe schedule: Weekly; Last wipe: In the last week; Average players: 100+ on average.

What do the server tags on RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Weekly | US mean?

For the server browser, RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Weekly | US lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp100 (Max players): It has 100 slots; ts2 (Group limit): No team can exceed 2 players; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join; cs168909 (Build): It's on game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^w (Weekly): Every week brings a wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here; NA (North America): Its place in the server browser is under North America. 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/Duo | Weekly | US rank against other Rust servers?

RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Weekly | US takes #171 on seven-day player hours, a top 0.8% spot overall and #36 across North America. Within the duo category, it sits at #9.

How many players are on RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Weekly | US right now?

The current tally at RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Weekly | US: 7 players across 100 slots. Peak for the week was 401, against an average of 102 players. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 01:00 UTC, averaging 42 players.

Server facts

Is RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Weekly | US online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Weekly | US is up and running. 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. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Weekly | US run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 72 server fps, with a low of 68. At its peak it held 226,062 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. The highest memory usage was 6,161 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Weekly | US located?

In North America, RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Weekly | US lists itself with its NA tag. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 64.40.8.60:28014.

Which Rust version is RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Weekly | US on?

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

The wipe schedule

What happens on RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Weekly | US when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 382 players. 2 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked, and 49 more were queued. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that happened in 0% of its recent wipes. The crowd fell under half by day 3 whenever it did not hold.

What is the wipe schedule on RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Weekly | US?

Wipes on RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Weekly | US follow a every Thursday at 21:53 UTC pattern. Thursday 29 October at 21:53 UTC is the date its next wipe is due. The world it is running now dates from 6 days 16 hours. The tags say wipes happen every week.

The rules

Which map does RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Weekly | US run?

Generated by the game with seed 23244, the map on RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Weekly | US is procedural and 3,750 in size. 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 | Solo/Duo | Weekly | US?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Weekly | US. duo is the group rule, capping teams at 2 players. gather, build and raid, as standard: that is the survival mode. Players can raid and fight one another. The server browser lists it under Community. Oxide plugins power it. It labels itself vanilla, with this meaning: nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

How to join

How do I join RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Weekly | US?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 64.40.8.60:28014. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. You can find its website at https://rustfornoobs.com.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^w,^v,NA,gmrust,cs168909,ts2,^o

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp100
Max players It has 100 slots.
ts2
Group limit No team can exceed 2 players.
v2635
Protocol The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join.
cs168909
Build It's on game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Wipe schedule

^w
Weekly Every week brings a wipe.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it.

Mods and access

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

Region

NA
North America Its place in the server browser is under North America.

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.