Newb Beginnings
Online NA 66.51.99.56:28060 checked 8m ago
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
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 1 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 34% of all ranked servers, top 61% in NA, and #422 of the quad servers (top 51%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 0h. The force wipe · high confidence
- usual gap
- 10.3 daysbetween real wipes
- wipe-day peak
- 1players, last three wipes
- crowd held
- 0%else halves by day 1
Coming wipes
- in 7d 0hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- in 10d 5hMon 9 Nov, 00:06 UTC
- in 24d 5hMon 23 Nov, 00:06 UTC
- in 35d 0hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
- in 38d 5hMon 7 Dec, 00:06 UTC
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 1 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
12 OCT 2026Mon 12 Oct, 00:06 UTC17d ago |
1 | – | running | 0 |
1 OCT 2026Thu 1 Oct, 18:06 UTC FW28d ago |
1 | halved by day 1 | 10.3 days | 0 |
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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Settings and map
What settings and rules does Newb Beginnings run?
No gather rate appears in the name Newb Beginnings. The group limit is 4 players, as stated (quad). The server runs survival, building, gathering and raiding in the standard game. Combat and raiding between players are possible. Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded in the server browser. Plugins in use: Oxide. VAC is on: Valve's anti-cheat is enabled.
Which map is in use on Newb Beginnings?
Newb Beginnings runs a procedural map of size 3,750 with seed 1337883756, generated by the game. The map can be seen on RustMaps from this page, because the same size and seed give the same map.
Tags and filters
Which lists and filters on Rust Server Index is Newb Beginnings filed under?
These lists on Rust Server Index take Newb Beginnings: Modded Rust servers, filed by play style and North American Rust servers. 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.
Which tags are attached to Newb Beginnings, and what do they stand for?
The server's own tags are listed here, and the game's server browser reads them: Newb Beginnings gives gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival, as standard; mp50 (Max players): Player cap: 50; ts4 (Group limit): 4 is the largest team allowed; v2635 (Protocol): Your client must run protocol 2635 to connect; cs168909 (Build): The game build here is 168909; ptrak (Networking): Networking runs on RakNet, the game's default layer; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^b (Biweekly): Every second week brings a wipe; ^o (Oxide): Plugins run through Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Modded: the game is changed by plugins or settings; NA (North America): The browser files it under North America. The top of this page shows three items from the tags: players at present, queue and world creation time.
Wipe schedule
What happens on wipe day at Newb Beginnings?
The average peak across its recent wipes is 1 players. 1 hours into the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak. Half that peak was held until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. By day 1 the crowd had fallen below half when it didn't hold.
Which wipe timetable does Newb Beginnings follow?
The prediction follows its tag, because too few of Newb Beginnings's wipes are on record to confirm the schedule. Its next wipe falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, as the force wipe that reaches every Rust server. Its present world dates from 17 days 18 hours. Filed in its tags: a wipe schedule of every two weeks.
Population
Where does Newb Beginnings sit in the rankings?
Filed under rankings: #7,653 for Newb Beginnings on seven-day player hours, #1,138 in North America, top 34% overall. See also the quad servers, where it stands at #422.
How many players are on Newb Beginnings at the moment?
Filed under live counts: Newb Beginnings, 0 players on 50 slots at present. Filed under seven-day figures: an average of 0 players and a peak of 1. The busiest point in the last 48 hours was 16:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.
Server facts
Which Rust build is Newb Beginnings running?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909, on Linux, is what Newb Beginnings runs. Steam keeps your game updated, but the protocol must match for you to join.
How reliable is Newb Beginnings, and is it online now?
Right now Newb Beginnings is up and running. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 2 days 11 hours ago. Uptime for the last 7 full days came to 99%, 167 hours out of 168. It was first recorded by Rust Server Index on 1 October 2026.
Is the performance on Newb Beginnings good?
Averaged over the last 48 hours, server fps was 7, with a low of 5. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world came to as many as 79,514 entities. The peak memory figure stood at 2,933 MB. What players feel as lag is low fps together with a rising entity count.
What is the location of Newb Beginnings?
The NA tag places Newb Beginnings, by its own listing, in North America. Rust Server Index takes the server's word for its location and does not look up the machine's position. You will reach it at 66.51.99.56:28060.
Connecting
What steps lead onto Newb Beginnings?
Two ways in. Type client.connect 66.51.99.56:28060 into the Rust console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust and join on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
Server tags
What each one means.
Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^b,NA,gmrust,cs168909,ts4,^o^z
Game
gmrust
mp50
ts4
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^b
Mods and access
^o
^z
Region
NA
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.