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Specimen recordcat. no. 1,552EUfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Monthly | EU

Online EU 168.100.161.237:28029 checked 8m ago

solo monthly wipes vanillaoxide

Measurements

Players now
2/ 100
= 1 player
2% full
7-day average
4
peak 12
Rank
#1,552
top 7% · #616 in EU
Last wipe
27d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
7d 8h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0246811:0020:0005:0014:0000:0009:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

02040608011:0020:0005:0014:0000:0009:00

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 7% of all ranked servers, top 21% in EU, and #72 of the solo servers (top 33%). 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 8h. The force wipe · high confidence

17
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 8h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
35d 8h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

05101520+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 17, 1 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:48 UTC FW27d ago 17 – running 3

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 | SOLO ONLY | Monthly | EU rank against other Rust servers?

RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Monthly | EU ranks #1,552 on seven-day player hours, #616 in Europe, and sits in the top 7% of all ranked servers. It places #72 among servers of the solo kind.

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

Of its 100 slots, RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Monthly | EU is using 2 right now. We counted an average of 4 players in the past week, with 12 at the busiest. The busiest hour in the last 48 was 19:00 UTC, when an average of 7 players were on.

Lists and tags

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

The game's server browser reads the tags RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Monthly | EU publishes: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp100 (Max players): The server has 100 slots; ts1 (Group limit): The team limit is 1; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^m (Monthly): This server wipes once a month, at the same time as Facepunch's force wipe; ^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): 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 | SOLO ONLY | Monthly | EU?

A rustfornoobs.com hostname comes from RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Monthly | EU and from 51 other servers we track, which suggests one operator runs them all.

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

These Rust Population lists include RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Monthly | EU: Rust servers for beginners, counted, Rust servers in Europe, Community servers, field-listed, Solo Rust servers, counted live 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: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Solo; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

Wipe schedule

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

Averaged over recent wipes, 17 players were counted at the busiest point. 1 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked.

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

RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Monthly | EU wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. Its next wipe falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC with the force wipe, which takes every Rust server. Counted from 27 days 16 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood. In its tags a monthly wipe schedule is published.

Settings

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

RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Monthly | EU uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 3,500 with seed 13707. 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 | SOLO ONLY | Monthly | EU?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Monthly | EU states none. Teams are out. This one is solo only. You get survival here, 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. Oxide plugins are in use here. By its own description it is vanilla: facepunch's game, unaltered: no kits, no rate changes, no extra rules. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

About the server

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

On Windows, RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Monthly | 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 | SOLO ONLY | Monthly | EU run smoothly?

The last 48 hours saw an average of 48 server fps, with 10 as the lowest. Up to 98,919 entities were present, counting buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 3,718 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

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

Right now, RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Monthly | EU is online. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 3 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 RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Monthly | EU located?

By its EU tag, RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Monthly | EU says it is in Europe. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. You will find it at 168.100.161.237:28029.

Getting in

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

Either enter client.connect 168.100.161.237:28029 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 mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,EU,gmrust,cs168909,ts1,^o

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp100
Max players The server has 100 slots.
ts1
Group limit The team limit is 1.
v2635
Protocol The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly This server wipes once a month, at the same time as Facepunch's force wipe.

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 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.