Rust Player Count
96,760 playing now

OnlineNA66.51.98.51:28025checked 13m ago

RTF

monthly wipes
Players now 0/ 50 0% full
7-day average 1 peak 3
Rank #4,087 top 18% · #726 in NA
Last wipe 10d ago monthly schedule
Next wipe 21d 2h Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW

Players

AveragePeak
00.511.5217:0002:0011:0021:0006:0015:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

02040608017:0002:0011:0021:0006:0015:00

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 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
12.5k5k7.5k10k20 Sep25 Sep30 Sep5 Oct10 Oct15 Oct

Top 18% of all ranked servers, top 39% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 21d 2h. The force wipe · high confidence

Usual gap 1.5 days between real wipes
On rhythm 0% of its recent wipes
Wipe-day peak 3 players, last three wipes
Crowd held 100% of its cycles kept half the crowd

Coming wipes

21d 2hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Sun 4 OctSun 4 OctThu 1 Oct
01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 4, 25 hours in.

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sun 4 Oct, 22:02 UTC10d ago 4 – running 1
Sun 4 Oct, 15:44 UTC11d ago 4 – 0.3 days 0
Thu 1 Oct, 21:49 UTC FW13d ago 2 held half 2.7 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
Rusty Moose |US Monthly|NA · groups of 12+ · monthly · 321 on average 196/ 225
[US East] Facepunch Premium 1NA · groups of 8+ · monthly · 206 on average 110/ 400
Rustopia.gg - US LargeNA · groups of 16+ · monthly · 202 on average 152/ 200
Rusty Moose |US Small|NA · groups of 8+ · monthly · 181 on average 89/ 200
Rustoria.co - US Long PremiumNA · groups of 14+ · monthly · 160 on average 73/ 200
Rustafied.com - US Long - LargeNA · groups of 16+ · monthly · 145 on average 84/ 100

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Rules, map and settings

What configuration does RTF use?

The name of RTF does not state a gather rate. Up to 8 players per group, which is the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build, raid: the standard game. PvP and raiding are enabled. It appears in the Community section of the server browser as a community server. Anti-cheat VAC from Valve is on.

What is the map on RTF?

A procedural map of size 4,500 is what RTF runs, generated by the game with seed 2009818051. The map is identical for the same size and seed, so it can be viewed on RustMaps from this page.

Tags, lists and filters

Where can RTF be found in Rust Player Count lists and filters?

The Rust Player Count lists that RTF fits are: Best Rust PvE servers and North American Rust servers. You can find it on the server list using these filters: Region: North America; Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Monthly ^m; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

What information do the tags on RTF convey?

The game's server browser reads these tags from RTF: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as standard in Rust; mp50 (Max players): The server has 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, which is what the game sets by default; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version needs to be on protocol 2634 to connect; cs166652 (Build): The game build is 166652; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the game's usual network protocol, and this server uses it; $r? (Region code): The region code field is empty; ^m (Monthly): Wipes occur monthly, at the same time as the force wipe; NA (North America): You can find it in the North America section of the server browser. The tags also include its current players, its queue and when its world was made, shown at the top of this page.

Player count

How many players does RTF have?

Right now, 0 players are on RTF, which has 50 slots. The seven-day average is 1 players, with a peak of 3. The busiest time in the last 48 hours was 04:00 UTC, with an average of 2 players.

Where does RTF sit in the rankings?

For player hours in the last seven days, RTF is #4,087 overall, #726 in North America, and in the top 18% of all ranked servers.

Server information

How reliable is RTF, and is it online?

You can find RTF online at the moment. It reports an uptime that puts the last restart at roughly 42 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours. 13 September 2026 is when Rust Player Count first saw it.

What Rust version is used on RTF?

On Linux, RTF runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652. The protocol has to match for you to join, but Steam updates it without any action from you.

What is the location of RTF?

Its NA tag shows RTF lists itself in North America. Rust Player Count displays the location a server claims, not the physical location of the machine. It is located at 66.51.98.51:28025.

What is the performance like on RTF?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 24 server fps, with a low of 5. The highest entity count was 123,580, covering buildings, deployables and all other objects. Peak memory use was 3,969 MB. Lag, as players experience it, is caused by low fps and increasing entities.

Wipe information

What should you expect on RTF during a wipe?

Recent wipes saw an average peak of 3 players. 25 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 100% of its recent wipes.

How often does RTF wipe?

Monthly force wipes are the sole wipes on RTF. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives as its next wipe, wiping all Rust servers. The present world dates from 10 days 15 hours ago. Its tags declare wipes on a monthly schedule.

How to join

What is the process to join RTF?

Joining is done by opening the console (F1) and running client.connect 66.51.98.51:28025. Another way is the Launch Rust option on this page, which uses Steam to start Rust and put you in.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,NA,gmrust,cs166652,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival as standard in Rust.
mp50
Max players The server has 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team, which is what the game sets by default.
v2634
Protocol Your game version needs to be on protocol 2634 to connect.
cs166652
Build The game build is 166652.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the game's usual network protocol, and this server uses it.
$r?
Region code The region code field is empty.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Wipes occur monthly, at the same time as the force wipe.

Region

NA
North America You can find it in the North America section of the server browser.

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.