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Specimen recordcat. no. 2,595EUfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

EU RustLife.net | Solo/Duo/Trio | Fridays | Noob Friendly

Online EU 168.100.161.143:28029 checked 9m ago

trio weekly wipes vanillaoxide

Measurements

Players now
0/ 100
0% full
7-day average
1
peak 9
Rank
#2,595
top 12% · #997 in EU
Last wipe
5d ago
weekly schedule
Next wipe
1d 2h
Fri 30 Oct, 15:54 UTC
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0123414:0023:0008:0016:0002:0011:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

01020304014:0023:0008:0016:0002:0011:00

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 12% of all ranked servers, top 34% in EU, and #207 of the trio servers (top 33%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

fixed weekdays

Next wipe Friday 30 October, 15:54 UTC, in 1d 2h. Every Friday at 15:54 UTC · high confidence

7 days
usual gap
between real wipes
100%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
7
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
20%
crowd held
else halves by day 2.5

Coming wipes

1d 2h
Fri 30 Oct, 15:54 UTC
7d 5h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
8d 2h
Fri 6 Nov, 15:54 UTC
15d 2h
Fri 13 Nov, 15:54 UTC
22d 2h
Fri 20 Nov, 15:54 UTC
29d 2h
Fri 27 Nov, 15:54 UTC
35d 5h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW
36d 2h
Fri 4 Dec, 15:54 UTC

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Fri 23 OctFri 16 OctFri 9 Oct
02468+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 9, 3 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 23 Oct, 15:54 UTC5d ago 9 – running 0
Fri 16 Oct, 15:54 UTC12d ago 7 halved by day 2 7 days 2
Fri 9 Oct, 15:54 UTC19d ago 5 halved by day 3 7 days 0
Fri 2 Oct, 15:54 UTC26d ago 6 held half 7 days 0
Fri 25 Sep, 15:54 UTC33d ago 13 halved by day 2 7 days 1
Fri 18 Sep, 15:54 UTC40d ago 5 halved by day 3 7 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

Population

How does EU RustLife.net | Solo/Duo/Trio | Fridays | Noob Friendly rank against other Rust servers?

Seven-day player hours put EU RustLife.net | Solo/Duo/Trio | Fridays | Noob Friendly at #2,595, or #997 in Europe, inside the top 12% of all ranked servers. It places #207 among servers of the trio kind.

How busy is EU RustLife.net | Solo/Duo/Trio | Fridays | Noob Friendly?

EU RustLife.net | Solo/Duo/Trio | Fridays | Noob Friendly holds 0 players at the moment, out of 100 slots. We counted an average of 1 players in the past week, with 9 at the busiest. The busiest hour in the last 48 was 19:00 UTC, when an average of 3 players were on.

Tags

What do the server tags on EU RustLife.net | Solo/Duo/Trio | Fridays | Noob Friendly mean?

These are the tags EU RustLife.net | Solo/Duo/Trio | Fridays | Noob Friendly publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp100 (Max players): You can join up to 100 slots; ts3 (Group limit): You may team with up to 3 players; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^w (Weekly): Wipes happen every week; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) runs on this server; EU (Europe): Its place in the server browser is under Europe. Player count now, queue length and the making of the world all sit in the tags as well, and the top of this page shows them.

Who runs EU RustLife.net | Solo/Duo/Trio | Fridays | Noob Friendly?

The rustlife.net hostname that EU RustLife.net | Solo/Duo/Trio | Fridays | Noob Friendly publishes is shared with 9 other servers we track; one operator most likely runs them.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include EU RustLife.net | Solo/Duo/Trio | Fridays | Noob Friendly?

On Rust Population, EU RustLife.net | Solo/Duo/Trio | Fridays | Noob Friendly is filed under these lists: Rust servers for beginners, counted, Rust servers in Europe, Community servers, field-listed, Trio Rust servers and Vanilla Rust servers, counted. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Region: Europe; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Weekly ^w, Vanilla ^v and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Trio; Wipe schedule: Weekly; Last wipe: In the last week.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on EU RustLife.net | Solo/Duo/Trio | Fridays | Noob Friendly?

Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 7 players. Peak came 3 hours into the latest wipe. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 20% of its recent wipes. The crowd dropped below half by day 2.5 when it did not hold.

What is the wipe schedule on EU RustLife.net | Solo/Duo/Trio | Fridays | Noob Friendly?

Counted by rhythm, EU RustLife.net | Solo/Duo/Trio | Fridays | Noob Friendly wipes every Friday at 15:54 UTC. On Friday 30 October at 15:54 UTC its next wipe is due. Counted from 5 days 21 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood. A weekly wipe schedule is published in its tags.

Settings

Which map does EU RustLife.net | Solo/Duo/Trio | Fridays | Noob Friendly run?

The map on EU RustLife.net | Solo/Duo/Trio | Fridays | Noob Friendly is procedural, made by the game at size 3,750 from seed 5121. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map. You will see the map named RustLife Generated Maps.

What are the rules and settings on EU RustLife.net | Solo/Duo/Trio | Fridays | Noob Friendly?

Nothing in EU RustLife.net | Solo/Duo/Trio | Fridays | Noob Friendly's name says how gather works. The cap on groups is 3 players (trio). You get survival here, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. 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. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

About the server

Which version of Rust does EU RustLife.net | Solo/Duo/Trio | Fridays | Noob Friendly run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows for EU RustLife.net | Solo/Duo/Trio | Fridays | Noob Friendly. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.

Does EU RustLife.net | Solo/Duo/Trio | Fridays | Noob Friendly run smoothly?

It ran at 24 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 10. Up to 99,142 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 4,094 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Is EU RustLife.net | Solo/Duo/Trio | Fridays | Noob Friendly online, and how reliable is it?

EU RustLife.net | Solo/Duo/Trio | Fridays | Noob Friendly is up and running at the moment. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 5 hours ago. 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 EU RustLife.net | Solo/Duo/Trio | Fridays | Noob Friendly located?

By its EU tag, EU RustLife.net | Solo/Duo/Trio | Fridays | Noob Friendly says it is in Europe. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. Connect at 168.100.161.143:28029.

Getting in

How do I join EU RustLife.net | Solo/Duo/Trio | Fridays | Noob Friendly?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 168.100.161.143:28029; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you. You can find its website at https://rustlife.net/.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^w,^v,EU,gmrust,cs168909,ts3,^o

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp100
Max players You can join up to 100 slots.
ts3
Group limit You may team with up to 3 players.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build This server runs game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Wipe schedule

^w
Weekly Wipes happen every week.

Difficulty

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

Mods and access

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

Region

EU
Europe Its place in the server browser is 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.