RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU
Online EU 168.100.161.237:28019 checked 10m ago
Measurements
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 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 11% of all ranked servers, top 31% in EU. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 29 October, 15:54 UTC, in 6h. Every Thursday at 15:54 UTC · 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 9, 4 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 22 Oct, 15:54 UTC6d ago | 9 | – | running | 2 |
| Thu 15 Oct, 15:53 UTC13d ago | 5 | held half | 7 days | 1 |
| Thu 8 Oct, 15:54 UTC20d ago | 6 | halved by day 6 | 7 days | 3 |
| Thu 1 Oct, 17:54 UTC FW27d ago | 11 | halved by day 2 | 6.9 days | 2 |
| Thu 24 Sep, 15:53 UTC34d ago | 14 | halved by day 3 | 7.1 days | 1 |
| Thu 17 Sep, 15:54 UTC41d ago | 9 | halved by day 4 | 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.
Quick answers
Player counts
How does RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU rank against other Rust servers?
Seven-day player hours put RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU at #2,347, or #904 in Europe, inside the top 11% of all ranked servers.
How busy is RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU?
RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU holds 0 players at the moment, out of 100 slots. We counted an average of 2 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 4 players were on.
Lists and tags
What do the server tags on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU mean?
The game's server browser reads the tags RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp100 (Max players): The server has 100 slots; ts100 (Group limit): Teams can have no more than 100 players; v2635 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^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): The server browser lists it 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 RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU?
A rustfornoobs.com hostname comes from RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU and from 51 other servers we track, which suggests one operator runs them all.
Which Rust Population lists and filters include RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU?
These Rust Population lists include RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU: Rust servers for beginners, counted, Rust servers in Europe, Community servers, field-listed 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: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Weekly; Last wipe: In the last week.
Wipe schedule
What does wipe day look like on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU?
Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 7 players. 4 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked. In 20% of recent wipes, half the peak was held until the next wipe. In those that did not hold, the fall below half came by day 3.5.
What is the wipe schedule on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU?
The wipe rhythm for RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU is every Thursday at 15:54 UTC. On Thursday 29 October at 15:54 UTC its next wipe is due. 6 days 17 hours ago the current world was made. A weekly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
Settings
Which map does RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU run?
RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 3,750 with seed 18044. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map. You will see the map named RustForNoobs Generated Maps.
What are the rules and settings on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU?
The name tells you nothing about gather rates: RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU states none. A group may hold 100 players at most. You get survival here, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. 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. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.
About the server
Which version of Rust does RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU run?
On Windows, RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.
Does RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU run smoothly?
In the last 48 hours, it averaged 28 server fps, with a low of 10. Entities peaked at 96,104, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 4,070 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Is RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU online, and how reliable is it?
RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU is up and running at the moment. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 1 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, or 99%. On 13 September 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.
Where is RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU located?
With its EU tag, RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU places itself in Europe. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. 168.100.161.237:28019 is where it lives.
How to join
How do I join RustForNoobs.com | Main | Weekly | EU?
Either enter client.connect 168.100.161.237:28019 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.