LiveLive coverage · NA
The count
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Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
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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.
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Top 0.8% of all ranked servers, top 2% in NA, and #9 of the duo servers (top 2%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Coming up · wipe schedule
fixed weekdays
Next wipe Thursday 29 October, 21:53 UTC, in 2d 2h. Every Thursday at 21:53 UTC · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 401, 2 hours in, with 49 in the queue.
The current map
Thursday 22 October 2026, 21:53 UTC
Wipe
Thursday 15 October 2026, 21:53 UTC
Wipe
Thursday 8 October 2026, 21:53 UTC
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 17:49 UTC FW
Wipe
Thursday 24 September 2026, 21:53 UTC
Wipe
Thursday 17 September 2026, 21:53 UTC
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.
Recent wipes on this server averaged a peak of 382 players at their busiest. 2 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked, with 49 more in the queue. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. On those occasions it fell below half by day 3.
The wipe rhythm on RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Weekly | US is every Thursday at 21:53 UTC. Thursday 29 October at 21:53 UTC is the date of its next wipe. 4 days 21 hours have passed since this world was generated. A weekly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
Most likely one operator runs them: RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Weekly | US and 51 other tracked servers publish a rustfornoobs.com hostname.
On Rust Live Stats, RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Weekly | US is listed under Rust servers for beginners, live, Duo Rust servers, live, Live Rust community servers, North America Rust servers, live and Vanilla Rust servers, live. These filters on the server list bring it up: Region: North America; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Weekly ^w, Vanilla ^v and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Duo; Wipe schedule: Weekly; Last wipe: In the last week; Players now: At least 10; Average players: 50+ on average.
These are the tags RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Weekly | US makes public: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp100 (Max players): 100 slots are available; ts2 (Group limit): Team cap: 2; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2635, so match that version to join; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard the game uses; $r? (Region code): The server sets no region code; ^w (Weekly): A wipe comes each week; ^v (Vanilla): The rates, kits and rules are unchanged from what Facepunch ships; ^o (Oxide): Plugin framework: Oxide (uMod); NA (North America): In the server browser it sits under North America. Players now, queue length and world creation time are carried in the tags too, and appear at the top of this page.
Live now: 24 players on RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Weekly | US, out of 100 slots. The seven-day average is 100 players, with a peak of 401. Between now and 48 hours back, 02:00 UTC drew the most players, 178 on average.
North America places RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Weekly | US at #36; overall it is #166, inside the top 0.8% of ranked servers, by seven-day player hours. Ranked against other duo servers, it comes in at #9.
No gather rate appears in the name RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Weekly | US. The limit is 2 players to a group (duo). survival applies here, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. You find it under Community in the server browser. Plugins run here: Oxide. Its self-description is vanilla: the rates, kits and rules are unchanged from what Facepunch ships. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Weekly | US runs a game-generated procedural map: size 3,750, seed 23244. RustMaps shows it from this page, since equal size and seed give an equal map. Map name, as listed: RustForNoobs Generated Maps.
By its own NA tag, RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Weekly | US sits in North America. Where the machine stands is not checked by Rust Live Stats; only the location a server states is shown. Connect to 64.40.8.60:28014.
It never went below 44 server fps in the last 48 hours, averaging 65. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to a maximum of 251,131 entities. The highest memory usage was 7,692 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.
The setup on RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Weekly | US is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 with Windows. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
RustForNoobs.com | Solo/Duo | Weekly | US is up and running at this moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 5 hours ago. 168 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 100% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Live Stats was on 13 September 2026.
Enter client.connect 64.40.8.60:28014 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you. The server's website: https://rustfornoobs.com.
