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Abstract

We describe the public Rust server RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US, reached at 64.40.8.61:28029 and hosted in NA. At the last check it held 2 of 150 places, against a seven-day mean of 5 and a peak of 151. It ranks #1,449 of all servers, the top 7%, and #214 in NA. It last wiped 26d ago on a published monthly schedule; the next wipe is expected Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, the force wipe.

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1Summary statistics

Plate 1: The server's own banner, as it publishes it. Table 1 gives its figures at the last check.
Table 1: The server at the last check, its week and its standing.
MeasureValueNote
Players now2/1501% full
In the queue0no queue
Seven-day mean5peak 15, 48 h peak 12
Rank2#1,449top 7%; #214 in NA
Last wipe26d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe38d 6hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCfw

2Population

Figure 1 follows the players on the server at three scales: every five minutes over two hours, the hourly mean and peak over 48 hours, and the daily mean and peak over 90 days. Dashed uprights mark its wipes.

AveragePeak
0510152013:0022:0007:0016:0001:0010:00
Figure 1: Players on the server, UTC: (a) every five minutes, from the Steam server list; (b) hourly mean and peak; (c) daily mean and peak.

3Performance

We query the server directly for its frame rate, entity count and memory4. Low frames per second and a climbing entity count are what players feel as lag (Figure 2).

measure
range
02040608013:0022:0007:0016:0001:0010:00
Figure 2: 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.

4Rank

The server stands in the top 7% of all ranked servers, the top 11% in NA. Rank is on player hours over the last seven days, and 1 is best; Figure 3 draws it day by day.

RankRank in region
15001k1.5k2k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct
Figure 3: Daily rank, overall and in its region; the axis is inverted, so up is better.

5Wipes

5.1Schedule: force wipes only

The next wipe is expected Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 6h. The force wipe (high confidence).

Table 2: The server's wipe rhythm, from the wipes recorded.
MeasureValueNote
Wipe-day peak38players, last three wipes
Table 3: Coming wipes, as expected.
When (UTC)InKind
Thu 5 Nov, 19:008d 6hforce wipefw
Thu 3 Dec, 19:0036d 6hforce wipefw
010203040+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h
Figure 4: 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.

5.2History

Table 4: Every wipe recorded, newest first.
Wiped (UTC)PeakCrowdLastedBefore
Thu 1 Oct, 17:49fw26d 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. Before: players just before it wiped. A new world less than six hours after a wipe is a restart, not a wipe of its own.

6Map and settings

Map of RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US
Figure 5: The map: RustForNoobs Generated Maps, size 3750, seed 14057.
Table 5: The server's published settings.
Address64.40.8.61:28029
RegionNA
Max players150
Group limit100 max
Wipe schedulemonthly
Last wipe1 Oct 2026, 17:49 UTC
Hostnameusmainmth.rustfornoobs.com
First seen13 Sep 2026
MapRustForNoobs Generated Maps
Size3750
Seed14057

7Operator

52 servers publish a rustfornoobs.com hostname; the busiest are listed.

Table 6: Other servers of the same operator, rustfornoobs.com.
ServerStatusPlayers
RustForNoobs.com | Mondays | Solo/Duo | EUonline103/100
RustForNoobs.com | Mondays | SOLO ONLY | EUonline92/125
RustForNoobs.com | Mondays | Solo Duo Trio | EUonline74/150
RustForNoobs.com | Mondays | Solo/Duo | USonline74/125
RustForNoobs.com | Mondays | Solo Duo Trio | AUonline30/150
RustForNoobs.com | Solo Duo Trio | Monthly AUonline19/200
RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Weekly | EUonline13/150
RustForNoobs.com | SOLO ONLY | Weekly | EUonline12/100

8Similar servers

Servers of the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes. The lists this server belongs to are North America server population [2], beginner rust server list [3], community tab servers measured [4], vanilla rust servers [5] and Rust wipe forecast [6].

Table 7: Similar servers: the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
ServerPlayers
Rustopia.gg - US LargeNA · groups of 16+ · monthly · 136 on average47/200
Rusty Moose |US Monthly|NA · groups of 12+ · monthly · 115 on average61/200
[US East] Facepunch Premium 1NA · groups of 8+ · monthly · 78 on average17/400
RustLands | Monthly Large | No BP Wipe | NOOB FRIENDLYNA · groups of 50+ · monthly · 65 on average24/225
PICKLE DUO MONTHLY | No BP Wipe | Low Upkeep | Duo SoloNA · groups of 20+ · monthly · 40 on average13/200
Rusticated.com - US Premium LongNA · groups of 16+ · monthly · 35 on average14/150

Appendix AQuick answers

From the figures on this page.

Server details

A.1Is the performance of RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US smooth?

Over the past 48 hours, it ran at an average of 77 server fps, with a low of 68. Buildings, deployables and all other world objects counted together reached a maximum of 125,109 entities. Its highest memory usage was 4,277 MB. When fps is low and entity count climbs, players feel lag.

A.2What is the location of RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US?

In North America, according to its own listing, RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US appears with the NA tag. The location displayed by Rust Statistics is the server's own claim, not a lookup of where the machine stands. 64.40.8.61:28029 is its address.

A.3What is the online status and reliability of RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US?

RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US is currently online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart occurred about 22 hours ago. Of the 168 hours in the last 7 full days, 167 were served, an availability of 99%. It was first observed on 13 September 2026 by Rust Statistics.

A.4What version of Rust is run on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US?

The version of Rust on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US is network protocol 2635 and build 168909, and the operating system is Windows. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol, and Steam updates it automatically.

Wipe schedule

A.5What schedule does RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US follow for wipes?

The only wipe for RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US is the monthly force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe occurs, and that is when every Rust server, including this one, next wipes. The current world has been running for 26 days 18 hours. According to its tags, wipes happen once a month.

A.6What characterises wipe day on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US?

The average busiest point of recent wipes was 38 players. The peak on the latest wipe came 7 hours after it began.

Population

A.7What position does RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US occupy in the ranking of Rust servers?

The seven-day player-hours ranking gives RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US #1,449, in the top 7% of ranked servers and #214 in North America.

A.8What is the population level of RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US?

On RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US, 2 of the 150 slots are occupied at present. Over the last week the count averages 5 players and reaches 15 at its height. Of the last 48 hours, the peak hour falls at 03:00 UTC, with an average of 11 players.

Tags, lists

A.9Who is responsible for running RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US?

51 other servers we track share the rustfornoobs.com hostname published by RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US; the same operator most likely runs them.

A.10What is the meaning of the tags on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US?

gmrust (Game mode): Survival on standard Rust rules; mp150 (Max players): The slot count is 150; ts100 (Group limit): 100 is the maximum team size; v2635 (Protocol): Joining requires the same game version: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): Networking runs on RakNet, the game's standard layer; $r? (Region code): A region code has not been set; ^m (Monthly): Facepunch's force wipe sets the schedule: wipes take place once a month; ^v (Vanilla): This is the game as Facepunch ships it, with rates, kits and rules unaltered; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, runs on this server; NA (North America): North America is the region it appears under in the server browser: these are the tags RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US publishes, and the server browser reads them. Also in the tags: players now, the queue, and when the world was made; these appear at the top of this page.

A.11Where can RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US be found among the Rust Statistics lists and filters?

The Rust Statistics lists that RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US fits are: Rust servers for new players, Rust community servers, measured, North American server statistics and Vanilla Rust servers. It appears under the following filters on the server 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.

Settings and map

A.12What are the settings and rules that govern RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US?

The name of RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US states no gather rate. 100 players is the cap on a group. The mode is survival, which means gathering, building and raiding, as the game is usually played. Combat and raiding against other players are allowed. Community is its category in the server browser. Plugins number Oxide on this server. The server's own description is vanilla: this is the game as Facepunch ships it, with rates, kits and rules unaltered. The server has VAC on, Valve's anti-cheat.

A.13What map is in use on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US?

The game generates RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US's procedural map at size 3,750, from seed 14057. Because size and seed determine the map, RustMaps can show it, linked from this page. Under map name, it gives RustForNoobs Generated Maps.

How to join

A.14What steps are required to join RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US?

Enter client.connect 64.40.8.61:28029 in the Rust console, reached by pressing F1 after starting the game. Or press Launch Rust and join here, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you. You can find its website at https://rustfornoobs.com.

Appendix BServer tags

What each of the server's tags means. Published as mp150,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,NA,gmrust,cs168909,ts100,^o.

Table 8: The server's tags and their meanings.
TagMeaning
Game
gmrustGame mode. Survival on standard Rust rules.
mp150Max players. The slot count is 150.
ts100Group limit. 100 is the maximum team size.
v2635Protocol. Joining requires the same game version: protocol 2635.
cs168909Build. The game build is 168909.
ptrakNetworking. Networking runs on RakNet, the game's standard layer.
$r?Region code. A region code has not been set.
Wipe schedule
^mMonthly. Facepunch's force wipe sets the schedule: wipes take place once a month.
Difficulty
^vVanilla. This is the game as Facepunch ships it, with rates, kits and rules unaltered.
Mods and access
^oOxide. Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, runs on this server.
Region
NANorth America. North America is the region it appears under in the server browser.

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.

Appendix CAbout this server, in its own words

Map - Monthly @ Force BPs - Monthly @ FacePunch Update Skip Queue: store.rustfornoobs.com Discord: discord.gg/rustfornoobs → NO Group Limit → 50% upkeep → Mini's spawn on roads → Map size: 3750 Rules: - No hacking / scripting - No intentional bug abuse - No EAC / FP banned alts - No ban evading - No racism Active non playing admins Full rules: discord.gg/rustfornoobs

References

  1. [1]Rust Statistics. The Rust server list. ruststatistics.org/rust-server-directory.
  2. [2]Rust Statistics. North America server population. ruststatistics.org/top-us-rust-servers.
  3. [3]Rust Statistics. Beginner rust server list. ruststatistics.org/rust-servers-for-new-players.
  4. [4]Rust Statistics. Community tab servers measured. ruststatistics.org/top-rust-community-servers.
  5. [5]Rust Statistics. Vanilla rust servers. ruststatistics.org/top-vanilla-rust-servers.
  6. [6]Rust Statistics. Rust wipe forecast. ruststatistics.org/rust-servers-wiping-today-list.