Newb Beginnings
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 68%.
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
66.51.99.56:28060
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
Down 476 places on last week. Top 68% of all ranked servers, top 80% in NA. Daily; 1 is best.
In its own words
A Newb friendly server. Bi-weekly wipes, monthly BP wipes. NO OFFLINE RAIDING. Offline raiding will result in a ban. Please respect other players. Wiped 10/1
Spec sheet
- Address
- 66.51.99.56:28060
- Region
- NA
- Max players
- 50
- Group limit
- quad
- Wipe schedule
- biweekly
- Last wipe
- 1 Oct 2026, 18:06 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 1 Oct 2026
Other contenders
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Map and rules
What are Newb Beginnings's rules and configuration?
The name of Newb Beginnings does not include a gather rate. You can have up to 4 players in a group (quad). It plays as survival, gather, build and raid in the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. Modded in the browser is where it appears: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Plugins running: Oxide. VAC is on: Valve's anti-cheat is running.
What's the map on Newb Beginnings?
The map on Newb Beginnings is procedural, size 3,500, generated with seed 379315981 by the game. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, as the same size and seed make the same map.
Server tags
What are the tags on Newb Beginnings for?
These tags come from Newb Beginnings and go straight into the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival setup; mp50 (Max players): Slot count: 50; ts4 (Group limit): 4 is the team limit; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: match it or you cannot join; cs166652 (Build): Running build 166652; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which the game uses as standard; $r? (Region code): No region code on record; ^b (Biweekly): Fortnightly wipe schedule; ^o (Oxide): It uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): It is Modded: plugins or settings make the difference; NA (North America): You will find it in the browser under North America. The top of this page also shows its current players, its queue and when its world was made, all taken from the tags.
Which Boongarust filters show Newb Beginnings?
On these Boongarust lists you will find Newb Beginnings: Top 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.
Server info
Performance of Newb Beginnings: does it hold up?
Average server fps over the last 48 hours was 60, with a low of 58. The entity count reached 69,235: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. At its highest, memory consumption was 2,570 MB. What players call lag is low fps plus a rising entity count.
Where can you find Newb Beginnings?
With its NA tag, Newb Beginnings lists itself in North America. Where a server says it is, that is what Boongarust shows. Where the machine actually stands is not looked up. Connect at 66.51.99.56:28060.
How reliable is Newb Beginnings?
Newb Beginnings is up as you read this. The uptime it reports suggests a restart around 3 days 16 hours ago. Last 6 full days: 100% uptime, with 144 hours up out of 144. 1 October 2026 is when Boongarust first spotted it.
What Rust version is Newb Beginnings using?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652 on Linux: that is Newb Beginnings. You must match the protocol to join; Steam updates it automatically.
Wipe times
Wipe day at Newb Beginnings: what's it like?
1 players was the average peak on recent wipes. 1 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.
Newb Beginnings wipes on what schedule?
Its tag sets the prediction: too few of Newb Beginnings's wipes are on record to confirm its schedule. Thursday 15 October at 18:06 UTC is when the next wipe comes. Its world is 6 days 15 hours old. Its tags say it wipes every two weeks.
Population
Ranking wise, where does Newb Beginnings place?
Seven-day player hours put Newb Beginnings at #16,173, within the top 68% of ranked servers and #1,592 across North America. It is #634 among quad servers.
What's the player count on Newb Beginnings?
Newb Beginnings is showing 0 players on 50 slots right now. The average over the last seven days was 0 players, with a peak of 1.
How to join
What's the process to join Newb Beginnings?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 66.51.99.56:28060. Or click Launch Rust here, which uses Steam to open the game and join.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^b,NA,gmrust,cs166652,ts4,^o^z.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.