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Specimen recordcat. no. 360EUfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU

Online EU 168.100.161.237:28014 checked 8m ago

solo weekly wipes vanillaoxide

Measurements

Players now
1/ 100
= 1 player
1% full
7-day average
48
peak 216
Rank
#360
top 2% · #184 in EU
Last wipe
6d ago
weekly schedule
Next wipe
11h
Thu 29 Oct, 15:54 UTC
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
01020304005:0014:0023:0008:0017:0003:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

02040608005:0014:0023:0008:0017:0003:00

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
120040060080020 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 2% of all ranked servers, top 6% in EU, and #11 of the solo servers (top 5%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

fixed weekdays

Next wipe Thursday 29 October, 15:54 UTC, in 11h. Every Thursday at 15:54 UTC · high confidence

7 days
usual gap
between real wipes
100%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
201
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 3

Coming wipes

11h
Thu 29 Oct, 15:54 UTC
7d 14h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
14d 11h
Thu 12 Nov, 15:54 UTC
21d 11h
Thu 19 Nov, 15:54 UTC
28d 11h
Thu 26 Nov, 15:54 UTC
35d 14h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW
42d 11h
Thu 10 Dec, 15:54 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 216, 5 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 22 Oct, 15:54 UTC6d ago 216 – running 48
Thu 15 Oct, 15:54 UTC13d ago 188 halved by day 3 7 days 34
Thu 8 Oct, 15:55 UTC20d ago 199 halved by day 2 7 days 39
Thu 1 Oct, 17:48 UTC FW27d ago 176 halved by day 3 6.9 days 26
Thu 24 Sep, 15:54 UTC34d ago 206 halved by day 4 7.1 days 51
Thu 17 Sep, 15:54 UTC41d ago 183 halved by day 3 7 days 13

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 RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU rank against other Rust servers?

Seven-day player hours put RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU at #360, or #184 in Europe, inside the top 2% of all ranked servers. It places #11 among servers of the solo kind.

How busy is RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU?

RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU holds 1 players at the moment, out of 100 slots. We counted an average of 48 players in the past week, with 216 at the busiest. Look at the last 48 hours and 17:00 UTC stands out: it averaged 21 players.

Tags

What do the server tags on RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp100 (Max players): 100 slots are available; ts1 (Group limit): You may team with up to 1 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): Every week the server wipes; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework, Oxide (uMod), is in use; EU (Europe): In the server browser it appears under Europe. You will see the player count, queue and world creation time at the top of this page, because the tags carry them too.

Who runs RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU?

The rustfornoobs.com hostname that RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | 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 | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU?

RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Rust servers for beginners, counted, Rust servers in Europe, Community servers, field-listed, Solo Rust servers, counted live and Vanilla Rust servers, counted. Look for it under these filters on the server 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: Solo; Wipe schedule: Weekly; Last wipe: In the last week; Average players: 25+ on average.

Wipe schedule

What does wipe day look like on RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU?

The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 201 players. Peak came 5 hours into the latest wipe. Half that peak held until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. The crowd dropped below half by day 3 when it did not hold.

What is the wipe schedule on RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU?

Counted by rhythm, RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU wipes every Thursday at 15:54 UTC. On Thursday 29 October at 15:54 UTC its next wipe is due. The world it runs now dates from 6 days 12 hours ago. A weekly wipe schedule is published in its tags.

Map and rules

Which map does RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU run?

The map on RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU is procedural, made by the game at size 3,500 from seed 18044. The map follows from its size and seed, and RustMaps shows it from this page. You will see the map named RustForNoobs Generated Maps.

What are the rules and settings on RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU?

No gather rate appears in the name of RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU. No teams here; you play alone. survival is what it runs, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. You will find it under Community: it is a community server. The plugins it runs are Oxide. By its own description it is vanilla: facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

About the server

Which version of Rust does RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU run?

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

Does RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU run smoothly?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 50 server fps, with a low of 46. The entity count reached 173,432: buildings, deployables and all other objects. Memory use peaked at 5,428 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Is RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU online, and how reliable is it?

RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU is up and running at the moment. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 21 hours ago. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 out of 168 hours. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 13 September 2026.

Where is RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU located?

The EU tag is how RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU places itself in Europe. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. Connect at 168.100.161.237:28014.

How to join

How do I join RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EU?

Either enter client.connect 168.100.161.237:28014 in Rust's console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and be connected. You can find its website at https://rustfornoobs.com.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^w,^v,EU,gmrust,cs168909,ts1,^o

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp100
Max players 100 slots are available.
ts1
Group limit You may team with up to 1 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 Every week the server wipes.

Difficulty

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

Mods and access

^o
Oxide A plugin framework, Oxide (uMod), is in use.

Region

EU
Europe In the server browser it appears 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.