Rust Player Count
57,403 playing now

OnlineNA66.51.99.163:28000checked 13m ago

Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs

teams off monthly wipes moddedcarbonhardcore
Players now 0/ 40 0% full
7-day average 0 peak –
Rank #15,874 top 72% · #1541 in NA
Last wipe 13d ago monthly schedule
Next wipe 21d 6h Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW

Players

AveragePeak
0123413:0022:0007:0017:0002:0011:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

02040608013:0022:0007:0017:0002:0011:00

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
15k10k15k20k20 Sep25 Sep30 Sep5 Oct10 Oct15 Oct

Top 72% of all ranked servers, top 84% 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 6h. The force wipe · high confidence

Wipe-day peak 2 players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

21d 6hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.511.52+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 37 hours in.

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 17:47 UTC FW13d ago 2 – running 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
Blackland#001 | Hardcore | ARE YOU STRONG ENOUGHNA · no group limit · monthly · 3 on average 1/ 100
[NA] Willjum's Casual Solo/Duo MonthlyNA · groups of 8+ · monthly · 49 on average 14/ 175
Hempville 420 No Kos Low Decay / Limited PvPNA · groups of 8+ · monthly · 16 on average 8/ 90
[US East] Facepunch Hardcore 1NA · no group limit · monthly · 12 on average 7/ 400
Made in Quebec & France! QC FR EN (Website 9 Languages)NA · groups of 8+ · monthly · 5 on average 3/ 1000
Gringers Hardcore|Solo Only|Monthly October 1NA · no group limit · monthly · 4 on average 1/ 50

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Rules, map and settings

What are the server rules for Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs?

The name of Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs does not state a gather rate. There is no published group limit. hardcore is the game mode, Facepunch's most difficult mode. PvP and raiding are enabled. You will find it in the Modded section: the game is changed by plugins or settings. Carbon plugins are running on it. Anti-cheat VAC from Valve is on.

Which map is running on Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs?

On Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs, the map is procedural, size 4,250, created by the game. The name of its map is: Custom Map.

Tags and filters

Where can Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs be found in Rust Player Count lists and filters?

These Rust Player Count lists include Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs: Modded Rust servers and North American Rust servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: Hardcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Hardcore ^h, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

What is the meaning of the tags on Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs?

For the game's server browser, Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs publishes: gmhardcore (Game mode): A tougher ruleset, hardcore; mp40 (Max players): 40 slots are available; ts0 (Group limit): Teams are disabled; v2634 (Protocol): Joining requires the same protocol: 2634; cs167781 (Build): The game build is 167781; 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; ^h (Hardcore): Hardcore mode from Facepunch: survival is harder and help is scarcer; ^z (Modded): It appears under Modded because plugins or settings modify the game; ^y (Carbon): Carbon, a plugin framework, is installed; NA (North America): It appears under North America when browsing servers. At the top of this page, its tags show its current players, queue and world creation time as well.

Player numbers

How many players does Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs have?

0 of 40 slots are filled on Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs right now. For the past week, the average number of players was 0.

Where does Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs sit in the rankings?

For player hours in the last seven days, Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs is #15,874 overall, #1,541 in North America, and in the top 72% of all ranked servers.

Server information

What is the uptime and reliability of Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs?

You can find Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs online at the moment. The uptime it gives suggests it restarted about 25 hours ago. In the last 7 full days, it was up for 168 of 168 hours, which is 100% uptime. Rust Player Count recorded it for the first time on 13 September 2026.

What Rust version is used on Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs?

Linux hosts Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs, which runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. The protocol has to match for you to join, but Steam updates it without any action from you.

Where can you find Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs?

With its NA tag, Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs lists itself in North America. Rust Player Count displays the location a server claims, not the physical location of the machine. You can reach it at 66.51.99.163:28000.

Is Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs lag-free?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 59 server fps, with a low of 33. Up to 121,430 entities were present, including buildings, deployables and other world objects. At its highest, it used 5,167 MB of memory. What players perceive as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Wipe schedule

What changes on Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs on wipe day?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest times averaged 2 players. The latest wipe saw its biggest crowd 37 hours in.

When does Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs wipe?

Wipes happen once a month on Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs, along with the force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. The present world dates from 13 days 18 hours ago. The tags show a wipe schedule set to monthly.

Join the server

What is the process to join Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs?

Joining is done by opening the console (F1) and running client.connect 66.51.99.163:28000. Another way is the Launch Rust option on this page, which uses Steam to start Rust and put you in. You can find its website at https://discord.com/invite/TjqW7Cwed5.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^z,^y,^m,^h,NA,gmhardcore,cs167781,ts0

Game

gmhardcore
Game mode A tougher ruleset, hardcore.
mp40
Max players 40 slots are available.
ts0
Group limit Teams are disabled.
v2634
Protocol Joining requires the same protocol: 2634.
cs167781
Build The game build is 167781.
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.

Difficulty

^h
Hardcore Hardcore mode from Facepunch: survival is harder and help is scarcer.

Mods and access

^z
Modded It appears under Modded because plugins or settings modify the game.
^y
Carbon Carbon, a plugin framework, is installed.

Region

NA
North America It appears under North America when browsing servers.

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.