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Specimen recordcat. no. 1,189EUfirst seen 13 Sep 2026

RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Monthly EU

Online EU 168.100.161.54:28019 checked 12m ago

duo monthly wipes vanillaoxide

Measurements

Players now
1/ 150
= 1 player
1% full
7-day average
7
peak 29
Rank
#1,189
top 5% · #484 in EU
Last wipe
27d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe
7d 11h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

AveragePeak
0510152008:0017:0002:0010:0020:0005:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

05010015020008:0017:0002:0010:0020:0005:00

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 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 5% of all ranked servers, top 17% in EU, and #84 of the duo servers (top 20%). 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 11h. The force wipe · high confidence

189
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 11h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
35d 11h
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 189, 3 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:46 UTC FW27d ago 189 – running 9

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/Duo | Monthly EU rank against other Rust servers?

RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Monthly EU ranks #1,189 on seven-day player hours, #484 in Europe, and sits in the top 5% of all ranked servers. It places #84 among servers of the duo kind.

How busy is RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Monthly EU?

The count reads 1 players on RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Monthly EU, which has 150 slots. Seven days of counting give an average of 7 players and a peak of 29. The busiest hour in the last 48 was 17:00 UTC, when an average of 9 players were on.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Monthly EU mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Monthly EU publishes: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp150 (Max players): The server has 150 slots; ts2 (Group limit): Teams can have no more than 2 players; v2635 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes take place, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): No kits, no rate changes, no rules added: the game as Facepunch ships it; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework, Oxide (uMod), is in use; 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 RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Monthly EU?

51 other servers we track publish the same rustfornoobs.com hostname as RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Monthly EU, so the same operator most likely runs the group.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Monthly EU?

These Rust Population lists include RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Monthly EU: Rust servers for beginners, counted, Rust population on duo servers, 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: Duo; Wipe schedule: Monthly and it will show up.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Monthly EU?

Averaged over recent wipes, 189 players were counted at the busiest point. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 3 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Monthly EU?

The force wipe is the only wipe RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Monthly EU takes, once a month. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 27 days 13 hours ago the current world was made. Its tags give a wipe schedule of one wipe a month.

Map and rules

Which map does RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Monthly EU run?

RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Monthly EU uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 3,750 with seed 13645. The map follows from its size and seed, and RustMaps shows it from this page. The name on the map is RustForNoobs Generated Maps.

What are the rules and settings on RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Monthly EU?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Monthly EU states none. A group can hold 2 players at most (duo). This server runs survival, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. You will find it under Community: it is a community server. The plugins it runs are Oxide. The server describes itself as vanilla: no kits, no rate changes, no rules added: the game as Facepunch ships it. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

Server details

Which version of Rust does RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Monthly EU run?

The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows for RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Monthly EU. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.

Does RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Monthly EU run smoothly?

It ran at 111 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 95. The entity count reached 136,216: buildings, deployables and all other objects. The highest memory usage was 4,217 MB. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.

Is RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Monthly EU online, and how reliable is it?

You will find RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Monthly EU online now. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 23 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 | Solo/Duo | Monthly EU located?

The EU tag is how RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Monthly EU places itself in Europe. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. Connect at 168.100.161.54:28019.

How to join

How do I join RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Monthly EU?

To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 168.100.161.54:28019; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you. You can find its website at https://rustfornoobs.com.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp150,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,EU,gmrust,cs168909,ts2,^o

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp150
Max players The server has 150 slots.
ts2
Group limit Teams can have no more than 2 players.
v2635
Protocol Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.
$r?
Region code The region code is left blank.

Wipe schedule

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

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla No kits, no rate changes, no rules added: the game as Facepunch ships it.

Mods and access

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

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.