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Specimen recordcat. no. 4,632habitat unknownfirst seen 1 Oct 2026

RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly

Offline 68.221.175.243:27024 checked 28d ago

Measurements

Players now
80/ 100
= 5 players
80% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#4,632
top 20%
Last wipe
28d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
6d 15h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

No hourly history yet.

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

This server has not answered a direct query in the last 48 hours.

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 2 Oct. 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
12k4k6k8k2 Oct3 Oct4 Oct6 Oct7 Oct8 Oct

Top 20% of all ranked servers. 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 6d 15h. The force wipe · high confidence

80
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

6d 15h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
34d 15h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

020406080+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 80, 4 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 20:57 UTC FW28d ago 80 – running 63

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 | Main | Monthly rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly at #4,632, within the top 20% of all ranked servers.

How busy is RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly?

We have no live count for RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly right now. It was last seen 28 days 2 hours ago.

Tags

What do the server tags on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly mean?

These are the tags RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp100 (Max players): The server has 100 slots; v2634 (Protocol): The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; monthly (Monthly): This server wipes once a month, at the same time as Facepunch's force wipe; vanilla (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it; community (Custom tag): The owner or a plugin applied this tag, which is not standard Rust; hde45a0a2 (Custom tag): The owner or a plugin applied this tag, which is not standard Rust; stok (Custom tag): The owner or a plugin applied this tag, which is not standard Rust. 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.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly?

RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Rust servers for beginners, counted and Community servers, field-listed. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Players now: At least 50.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly?

Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 80 players. Peak came 4 hours into the latest wipe.

What is the wipe schedule on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly?

RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes its next wipe: the force wipe, when all Rust servers wipe. The world it runs now dates from 28 days 6 hours ago.

Map and rules

Which map does RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly run?

RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 4,000 with seed 714382. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map.

What are the rules and settings on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly states none. The group limit goes unstated. survival is what it runs, raid, build and gather: the standard game. You can raid and fight other players here. You will find it under Community: it is a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.

Server details

Which version of Rust does RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly run?

On Linux, RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly runs Rust network protocol 2634. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Is RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly online, and how reliable is it?

Offline at the moment, RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly was last seen 28 days 2 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, or 0%. It was first seen by Rust Population on 1 October 2026.

Where is RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly located?

No region is published by RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. 68.221.175.243:27024 is where it lives.

How to join

How do I join RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly?

Either enter client.connect 68.221.175.243:27024 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,v2634,community,monthly,vanilla,hde45a0a2,stok,gmrust

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp100
Max players The server has 100 slots.
v2634
Protocol The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game.

Wipe schedule

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

Difficulty

vanilla
Vanilla No changed rates, kits or rules: this is the game as Facepunch ships it.

Other

community
Custom tag The owner or a plugin applied this tag, which is not standard Rust.
hde45a0a2
Custom tag The owner or a plugin applied this tag, which is not standard Rust.
stok
Custom tag The owner or a plugin applied this tag, which is not standard Rust.

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.