Rust PopulationField survey · Rust servers
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Specimen recordcat. no. 1,693habitat unknownfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins

Online 15.204.198.173:28015 checked 12m ago

quad oxide

Measurements

Players now
2/ 100
= 1 player
2% full
7-day average
3
peak 14
Rank
#1,693
top 8%
Last wipe
6d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
no rhythm it keeps
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0246819:0004:0013:0023:0008:0017:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

01020304019:0004:0013:0023:0008:0017:00

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.

Obs. 3 · standing

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
11k2k3k4k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 8% of all ranked servers, and #87 of the quad servers (top 10%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

no rhythm it keeps

Its wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

13 days
usual gap
between real wipes
67%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
12
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 5

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 22 OctThu 15 OctThu 1 Oct
05101520+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 13, 4 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 22 Oct, 21:33 UTC6d ago 13 – running 0
Thu 15 Oct, 21:32 UTC13d ago 10 halved by day 4 7 days 1
Thu 1 Oct, 20:15 UTC FW27d ago 14 halved by day 5 14.1 days 1
Fri 18 Sep, 21:07 UTC40d ago 9 halved by day 7 13 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.

Field questions

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Player counts

How does Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins at #1,693, within the top 8% of all ranked servers. It places #87 among servers of the quad kind.

How busy is Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins?

Of its 100 slots, Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins is using 2 right now. We counted an average of 3 players in the past week, with 14 at the busiest. The busiest hour in the last 48 was 15:00 UTC, when an average of 7 players were on.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins mean?

What the game's server browser reads from Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins is this set of tags: gmvanilla (Game mode): Survival in vanilla form; mp100 (Max players): The server has 100 slots; ts4 (Group limit): The team limit is 4; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) runs on this server. The tags also carry the current player count, the queue and when the world was made; you will find them at the top of this page.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins?

On Rust Population, Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins is filed under these lists: Rust servers for beginners, counted and Community servers, field-listed. Filter the server list by Type: Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Oxide ^o; Group limit: Quad; Last wipe: In the last week and it will show up.

Wipe schedule

What does wipe day look like on Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins?

Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 12 players. 4 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. By day 5 it had fallen below half, in the cases where it did not hold.

What is the wipe schedule on Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins?

Irregular times are when Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins wipes, which leaves no next wipe to predict. The next monthly force wipe is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC; all Rust servers wipe then, this one too. The world it runs now dates from 6 days 20 hours ago.

Settings

Which map does Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins run?

A procedural map of size 3,500 from seed 1382175453, generated by the game, is in use on Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins. Size and seed together fix the map, so you can view it on RustMaps from this page.

What are the rules and settings on Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins states none. 4 is the most a group can hold (quad). This server runs survival, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. You can raid and fight other players here. You will find it under Community: it is a community server. The plugins it runs are Oxide. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

Server details

Which version of Rust does Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux for Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Does Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins run smoothly?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 30 server fps, with a low of 30. Up to 81,809 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 4,241 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Is Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins online, and how reliable is it?

You will find Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins online now. About 6 days 19 hours ago, it restarted, according to its uptime. Over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, or 99%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 13 September 2026.

Where is Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins located?

A region is not published by Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. 15.204.198.173:28015 is where it lives.

How to join

How do I join Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 15.204.198.173:28015. Joining from this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you. You can find its website at https://startingtorust.com/.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmvanilla,cs168909,ts4,^o

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode Survival in vanilla form.
mp100
Max players The server has 100 slots.
ts4
Group limit The team limit is 4.
v2635
Protocol The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) runs on this server.

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.