RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US
Online NA 64.40.8.61:28029 checked 2h 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 7% of all ranked servers, top 12% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 23h. The force wipe · 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 38, 7 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 17:49 UTC FW27d ago | 38 | – | running | 2 |
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
Population
How does RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US rank against other Rust servers?
Seven-day player hours put RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US at #1,457, or #219 in North America, inside the top 7% of all ranked servers.
How busy is RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US?
The count reads 1 players on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US, which has 150 slots. Seven days of counting give an average of 4 players and a peak of 15. In the last 48 hours the peak hour came at 03:00 UTC, averaging 11 players.
Lists and tags
What do the server tags on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US mean?
What the game's server browser reads from RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp150 (Max players): 150 slots are available; ts100 (Group limit): You may team with up to 100 players; v2635 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code; ^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): Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here; NA (North America): Its place in the server browser is under North America. 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 | Main | Monthly | US?
A rustfornoobs.com hostname comes from RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US and from 51 other servers we track, which suggests one operator runs them all.
Which Rust Population lists and filters include RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US?
RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Rust servers for beginners, counted, Community servers, field-listed, North American Rust servers and Vanilla Rust servers, counted. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Region: North America; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
Wipe notes
What does wipe day look like on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US?
Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 38 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 7 hours in.
What is the wipe schedule on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US?
RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US 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. The world it runs now dates from 27 days 1 hours ago. In its tags a monthly wipe schedule is published.
Map and rules
Which map does RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US run?
The map on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US is procedural, made by the game at size 3,750 from seed 14057. Size and seed together fix the map, so you can view it on RustMaps from this page. The name on the map is RustForNoobs Generated Maps.
What are the rules and settings on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US?
The name tells you nothing about gather rates: RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US 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. You will find it under Community: it is a community server. You will find Oxide running as plugins. 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.
Server details
Which version of Rust does RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US run?
The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows for RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US. Steam updates your game automatically, but you need the same protocol to join.
Does RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US run smoothly?
In the last 48 hours, it averaged 77 server fps, with a low of 68. Entities peaked at 124,899, including buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 4,277 MB. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.
Is RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US online, and how reliable is it?
You will find RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US online now. About 4 hours ago, it restarted, according to its uptime. 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 | Main | Monthly | US located?
The NA tag is how RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US places itself in North America. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. 64.40.8.61:28029 is where it lives.
How to join
How do I join RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US?
To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 64.40.8.61:28029; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you. You can find its website at https://rustfornoobs.com.