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Specimen recordcat. no. 1,752EUfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | EU

Online EU 168.100.161.142:28014 checked 12m ago

monthly wipes vanillaoxide

Measurements

Players now
0/ 200
0% full
7-day average
3
peak 13
Rank
#1,752
top 8% · #683 in EU
Last wipe
27d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
7d 19h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

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

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

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.

Obs. 3 · standing

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15001k1.5k2k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 8% of all ranked servers, top 23% in EU. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 19h. The force wipe · high confidence

145
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 19h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
35d 19h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

050100150200+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 145, 2 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:46 UTC FW27d ago 145 – running 4

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 RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | EU rank against other Rust servers?

On player hours over the last seven days RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | EU is #1,752, #683 in Europe, placing it in the top 8% of ranked servers.

How busy is RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | EU?

RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | EU holds 0 players at the moment, out of 200 slots. Seven days of counting give an average of 3 players and a peak of 13. In the last 48 hours the peak hour came at 17:00 UTC, averaging 6 players.

Tags

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

These are the tags RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | EU publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp200 (Max players): You can join up to 200 slots; ts100 (Group limit): Teams can have no more than 100 players; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes take place, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here; EU (Europe): The server browser lists it under Europe. 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.

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

The rustfornoobs.com hostname that RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | EU publishes is shared with 51 other servers we track; one operator most likely runs them.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | EU?

On Rust Population, RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | EU is filed under these lists: Rust servers for beginners, counted, Rust servers in Europe, Community servers, field-listed and Vanilla Rust servers, counted. Filter the server list by Region: Europe; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly and it will show up.

Wipe schedule

What does wipe day look like on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | EU?

The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 145 players. Peak came 2 hours into the latest wipe.

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

Once a month RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | EU wipes, and that is with the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. The world it runs now dates from 27 days 5 hours ago. A monthly wipe schedule is what its tags publish.

Settings

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

The map on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | EU is procedural, made by the game at size 3,750 from seed 13753. Size and seed together fix the map, so you can view it on RustMaps from this page. You will see the map named RustForNoobs Generated Maps.

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

No gather rate appears in the name of RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | EU. A group may hold 100 players at most. This server runs survival, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. Oxide plugins are in use here. The server describes itself as vanilla: facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

Server details

Which version of Rust does RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | EU run?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | EU uses. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

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

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 80 server fps, with a low of 76. The entity count reached 112,018: buildings, deployables and all other objects. The highest memory usage was 3,951 MB. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

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

You will find RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | EU online now. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 16 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours were online, or 100%. On 13 September 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

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

With its EU tag, RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | EU places itself in Europe. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. Connect at 168.100.161.142:28014.

How to join

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

Either enter client.connect 168.100.161.142:28014 in Rust's console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and be connected. For more, visit its website: https://rustfornoobs.com.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp200,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,EU,gmrust,cs168909,ts100,^o

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp200
Max players You can join up to 200 slots.
ts100
Group limit Teams can have no more than 100 players.
v2635
Protocol The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect.
cs168909
Build This server runs game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Monthly wipes take place, following Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework 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.