Newb Beginnings
Online NA 66.51.99.56:28060 checked 10m ago
Vital stats
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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 1 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 32% of all ranked servers, top 58% in NA, and #396 of the quad servers (top 48%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 16h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 1 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 12 Oct, 00:06 UTC17d ago | 1 | – | running | 0 |
| Thu 1 Oct, 18:06 UTC FW27d ago | 1 | halved by day 1 | 10.3 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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Lists and tags
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Newb Beginnings?
You'll find Newb Beginnings on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Modded Rust servers, live and North America: who's hot right now. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Server tag: Biweekly ^b, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Every two weeks.
What do the server tags on Newb Beginnings mean?
These are the tags Newb Beginnings publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): Slots: 50; ts4 (Group limit): Teams cap at 4 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): Region code left blank; ^b (Biweekly): It wipes on a two-week cycle; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded; NA (North America): In the server browser it sits under North America. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.
Player counts
How does Newb Beginnings rank against other Rust servers?
For the last seven days of player hours, Newb Beginnings sits at #7,029, inside the top 32% of ranked servers and at #1,083 in North America. It comes in at #396 among quad servers.
How many players are on Newb Beginnings right now?
The current tally at Newb Beginnings: 0 players across 50 slots. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 1. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 16:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.
About the server
Is Newb Beginnings online, and how reliable is it?
As of now, Newb Beginnings is online. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 42 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 99%, with 167 out of 168 hours online. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 1 October 2026.
Does Newb Beginnings run smoothly?
The 48-hour average was 7 server fps, with a low of 5. The world carried as many as 79,698 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 2,869 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.
Where is Newb Beginnings located?
With its NA tag, Newb Beginnings lists itself in North America. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 66.51.99.56:28060.
Which Rust version is Newb Beginnings on?
On Linux, Newb Beginnings runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe times
What happens on Newb Beginnings when wipe day comes around?
Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 1 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 1 hours after it began. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. In the wipes that didn't hold, the crowd sank below half by day 1.
What is the wipe schedule on Newb Beginnings?
Its tag sets the prediction, because Newb Beginnings's recorded wipes are too few to confirm the schedule. 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 17 days 1 hours. Its tags set out a wipe schedule of one wipe every two weeks.
The rules
Which map does Newb Beginnings run?
A procedural map of 3,750 with seed 1337883756 is what Newb Beginnings runs, made by the game. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map.
What are the rules and settings on Newb Beginnings?
Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on Newb Beginnings. The cap on groups is 4 players (quad). It runs survival, gather, build and raid, as standard. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Oxide plugins are running on it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.
Getting in
How do I join Newb Beginnings?
The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 66.51.99.56:28060. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.