Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 8%.
Power level
Players on it, from the Steam server list.
Every five minutes.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Tale of the tape
Against its closest rival: the most similar server we track.
Wipe receipt
15.204.198.173:28015
THANK YOU · COME AGAIN NEXT WIPE
The map
Under the hood
Asked of the server directly. Low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
The ranking
Up 49 places on last week. Top 8% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
In its own words
Active Non-Playing Admins No-KOS PVP-Rules Server Come join us in a less hostile world and learn the ropes from our friendly and veteran crew! Decay: LOW PVP: ON (No-KOS) You will be killed... and you will kill. Click on the Webpage for the FULL LIST of RULES.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 15.204.198.173:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 100
- Group limit
- quad
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 1 Oct 2026, 20:15 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 13 Sep 2026
Other contenders
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Server rules
What are Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins's rules and configuration?
No gather rate appears in the name of Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins. You can have up to 4 players in a group (quad). It plays as survival, gather, build and raid in the standard game. PvP and raiding are enabled. Listed under Community in the server browser, it is a community server. Oxide plugins are running on it. The server has VAC on.
What's the map on Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins?
The map on Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins is procedural, size 4,250, generated with seed 1289664811 by the game. The map is identical for the same size and seed, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
Tags
What do Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins's tags signify?
gmvanilla (Game mode): Vanilla, straight up; mp100 (Max players): 100 players fit in; ts4 (Group limit): 4 is the team limit; v2634 (Protocol): Get on protocol 2634 or the door stays shut; cs166494 (Build): Build 166494; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which the game uses as standard; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^o (Oxide): It uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins are the tags Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins puts out, and the game's server browser takes them in. The top of this page also shows its current players, its queue and when its world was made, all taken from the tags.
Where does Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins appear in Boongarust lists?
These Boongarust lists are a fit for Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins: Rust servers for new players and The busiest community servers in Rust. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Oxide ^o; Group limit: Quad; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Server info
How smooth is Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins?
Average server fps over the last 48 hours was 29, with a low of 27. At its peak, it held 141,325 entities, including buildings and deployables. It drew as much as 8,901 MB of memory. Lag, to players, means low fps and a growing entity count.
What's the physical location of Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins?
No region is published by Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins. Where a server says it is, that is what Boongarust shows. Where the machine actually stands is not looked up. Connect at 15.204.198.173:28015.
How reliable is Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins?
Right now Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins is live. A restart happened about 6 days 23 hours ago, based on the uptime figure. Uptime over the last 7 full days came to 100%, 168 hours from 168. It entered Boongarust's records on 13 September 2026.
Which Rust build does Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins have?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494 on Linux: that is Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe info
What happens on wipe day at Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins?
Recent wipes peaked at 12 players on average. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 2 hours in. Half the peak held until the next wipe in 0% of recent wipes. If it did not hold, half the peak was gone by day 7.
Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins wipes on what schedule?
With so few of Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins's wipes on record, its rhythm is unclear. All Rust servers wipe at the force wipe, monthly. The next is Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The world you are on was made 7 days 1 hours.
Player counts
Ranking wise, where does Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins place?
In the top 8% of all ranked servers, Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins is #1,745 on player hours over the last seven days. For quad servers, #103 is its place.
What's the player count on Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins?
2 players are on Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins at the moment, out of 100 slots. The average over the last seven days was 4 players, with a peak of 14. Over the last 48 hours, the busiest hour was 21:00 UTC, averaging 5 players.
How to join
How can you get into Starting to Rust | No KOS | Noob Friendly | Active Admins?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 15.204.198.173:28015. Or click Launch Rust here, which uses Steam to open the game and join. Find it at https://startingtorust.com/.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmvanilla,cs166494,ts4,^o.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.