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 6% of all ranked servers, top 11% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Coming up · wipe schedule
force wipes only
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 13h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 38, 7 hours in.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 17:49 UTC FW
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.
At their busiest, its recent wipes averaged 38 players. 7 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak.
Once a month is all RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US wipes, together with the force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. The world you are playing on was built 26 days 11 hours. The tags carry a monthly wipe schedule.
Most likely one operator runs them: RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US and 51 other tracked servers publish a rustfornoobs.com hostname.
On Rust Live Stats, RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US is listed under Rust servers for beginners, 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: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
These are the tags RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US makes public: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp150 (Max players): 150 slots are available; ts100 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 100; v2635 (Protocol): Join only if your game is on protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer — the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code is set here; ^m (Monthly): It wipes with Facepunch's force wipe, once each month; ^v (Vanilla): It runs the game as Facepunch ships it: rates, kits and rules unchanged; ^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.
RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US is carrying 4 players at the moment, with 150 slots in total. The seven-day average is 5 players, with a peak of 15. Peak hour over 48 hours: 03:00 UTC, at 11 players on average.
RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US is #214 in North America on the past week's player hours, and #1,446 overall in the top 6% of ranked servers.
The name RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US carries no gather rate. A group can reach 100 players at most. survival applies here, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Raiding and player combat are both permitted. Community is its browser category. Plugins run here: Oxide. By its own label it is vanilla: it runs the game as Facepunch ships it: rates, kits and rules unchanged. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
Size 3,750, seed 14057: that is the procedural map the game generates for RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US. Same size, same seed, same map: RustMaps has it, reachable from this page. For the map name it lists RustForNoobs Generated Maps.
By its own NA tag, RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US sits in North America. A server's stated location is what Rust Live Stats shows; the machine's actual position is not looked up. 64.40.8.61:28029 is its address.
It never went below 68 server fps in the last 48 hours, averaging 77. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to a maximum of 125,835 entities. Memory use peaked at 4,213 MB. Players experience lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.
The setup on RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 with Windows. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.
Right now RustForNoobs.com | Main | Monthly | US is online. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 16 hours ago. 167 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 99% uptime. Rust Live Stats has tracked it since 13 September 2026.
Enter client.connect 64.40.8.61:28029 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you. You can find its website at https://rustfornoobs.com.
