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 1 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
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Top 35% of all ranked servers, top 61% in NA, and #421 of the quad servers (top 51%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Coming up · wipe schedule
from its schedule tag
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 11h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 1 hours in.
The current map
Monday 12 October 2026, 00:06 UTC
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 18:06 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 1 players. Peak population on the latest wipe came 1 hours after it. 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 1.
Newb Beginnings's schedule cannot be confirmed from the wipes recorded, so its tag drives the prediction. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. This world dates from 17 days 7 hours. Wipes every two weeks: that is the schedule its tags publish.
On Rust Live Stats, Newb Beginnings is listed under Modded Rust servers live now and North America Rust servers, live. These filters on the server list bring it up: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Server tag: Biweekly ^b, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Every two weeks.
gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp50 (Max players): The slot count is 50; ts4 (Group limit): Each team holds 4 at most; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2635, so match that version to join; cs168909 (Build): Build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's usual network layer, carries this server; $r? (Region code): Region code: none set; ^b (Biweekly): Expect a wipe each two weeks; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, runs on this server; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings changes put this under Modded; NA (North America): North America is the browser listing for this server: that is the tag list Newb Beginnings publishes for the game's server browser. Players now, queue length and world creation time are carried in the tags too, and appear at the top of this page.
Live now: 0 players on Newb Beginnings, out of 50 slots. Averaged across seven days, 0 players; the peak was 1. The busiest hour in the past 48 was 16:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.
North America places Newb Beginnings at #1,138; overall it is #7,702, inside the top 35% of ranked servers, by seven-day player hours. Ranked against other quad servers, it comes in at #421.
No gather rate appears in the name Newb Beginnings. quad sets the cap: 4 players per group. survival is the mode, with the standard game: gather, build, raid. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. Modded is its browser category, where plugins or settings change the game. Oxide plugins are in use. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
Newb Beginnings runs a game-generated procedural map: size 3,750, seed 1337883756. RustMaps shows it from this page, since equal size and seed give an equal map.
Its NA tag places Newb Beginnings in North America. A server's stated location is what Rust Live Stats shows; the machine's actual position is not looked up. 66.51.99.56:28060 is its address.
Server fps averaged 7 over the last 48 hours, with a low of 5. Entity count reached 79,698: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Memory use peaked at 2,668 MB. Players experience lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.
Newb Beginnings operates on Linux with Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
Right now Newb Beginnings is online. About 2 days ago is when it last restarted, according to its uptime. It was online for 167 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, or 99% of the time. Rust Live Stats has tracked it since 1 October 2026.
Use Launch Rust and join on this page to open Rust through Steam and connect, or start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 66.51.99.56:28060.