Newb Beginnings
Online NA 66.51.99.56:28060 checked 12m 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
daily · 1 is bestTop 58% of all ranked servers, top 76% in NA, and #571 of the quad servers (top 71%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
from its schedule tagNext wipe Monday 26 October, 00:06 UTC, in 10d 18h. Its biweekly schedule tag · low confidence
Coming wipes
- 10d 18hMon 26 Oct, 00:06 UTC
- 21d 13hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 24d 18hMon 9 Nov, 00:06 UTC
- 38d 18hMon 23 Nov, 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
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 12 Oct, 00:06 UTC3d ago | 1 | – | running | 0 |
| Thu 1 Oct, 18:06 UTC FW13d 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.
Lists and tags
Can you explain the tags on Newb Beginnings?
Here are the tags Newb Beginnings lists, which the game's browser uses: gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival, the standard way; mp50 (Max players): The cap is 50; ts4 (Group limit): 4 is the team ceiling; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: your game must match to get in; cs167398 (Build): Build 167398; ptrak (Networking): This is the standard RakNet layer the game uses; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^b (Biweekly): Wipes land every fortnight; ^o (Oxide): It uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): Modded: plugins or settings change how it plays; NA (North America): In the server browser it sits under North America. Player numbers, queue length and world age are tagged as well, and they sit at the top of this page.
On Rust Vending Machine, which lists and filters can you find Newb Beginnings in?
These Rust Vending Machine lists include Newb Beginnings: Modded Rust servers and North America Rust servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Server tag: Biweekly ^b, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Every two weeks; Last wipe: In the last week.
Rules & map
What map is in play on Newb Beginnings?
The map on Newb Beginnings is procedural, size 3,750 with seed 1337883756, generated by the game. From this page you can look at it on RustMaps: the same size and seed give the same map.
What rules does Newb Beginnings enforce, and what settings does it run?
No gather rate is given in the name of Newb Beginnings. quad groups are capped at 4 players. You play survival, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser lists it as Modded: plugins or settings alter the game. Oxide plugins are running on it. VAC is on.
Server details
What location is Newb Beginnings in?
Newb Beginnings shows the NA tag and lists in North America. Rust Vending Machine reports the location a server claims, not where the machine actually sits. Find it at this address: 66.51.99.56:28060.
How reliable is Newb Beginnings, and is it online now?
The shelves show Newb Beginnings in stock and online right now. By its own uptime report, the last restart was about 3 days 2 hours ago. Over 7 full days, the shelves were stocked for 168 of 168 hours (100%). The first sighting of it on Rust Vending Machine was 1 October 2026.
Is Newb Beginnings lag-free?
Over the last 48 hours the average server fps was 30, with a low of 25. The entity count reached 78,543: that includes buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 3,782 MB. The feel of lag traces back to fps dropping and entities piling up.
What Rust version does Newb Beginnings run?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398 on Linux is what powers Newb Beginnings. To get in, your game must match the protocol; Steam keeps that updated.
Player count
How does Newb Beginnings compare to other Rust servers in the rankings?
The last seven days of player hours place Newb Beginnings at #12,856, in the top 58% of all ranked servers and #1,405 in North America. It ranks #571 among quad servers.
How many players are on Newb Beginnings right now?
Newb Beginnings is carrying 0 players on 50 slots at the moment. The seven-day average stands at 0 players, peaking at 1.
Wipe info
When does Newb Beginnings wipe?
The prediction follows its tag, since too few of Newb Beginnings's wipes are on record to confirm the schedule. It is due to wipe next on Monday 26 October at 00:06 UTC. The world it has now started 3 days 5 hours ago. The tags carry a two-weekly wipe schedule.
What happens on Newb Beginnings on wipe day?
An average of 1 players turned up at the peak of its recent wipes. Peak crowd on the latest wipe came 1 hours in. Half the peak was kept until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. By day 1 the crowd had dropped below half in the wipes that failed to hold.
Join the server
What steps do you take to join Newb Beginnings?
Press F1 in Rust to bring up the console and enter client.connect 66.51.99.56:28060. Alternatively, the Launch Rust option on this page opens Rust via Steam and joins for you.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^b,NA,gmrust,cs167398,ts4,^o^z
Game
gmrust
mp50
ts4
v2634
cs167398
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.