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RTF
Online NA 66.51.98.51:28025 checked 7m 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 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 25% of all ranked servers, top 50% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 7h.
The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 7d 7hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 35d 7hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 18 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 23 Oct, 01:46 UTC6d ago | 2 | – | running | 0 |
| Sun 4 Oct, 22:02 UTC24d ago | 4 | halved by day 6 | 18.2 days | 1 |
| Sun 4 Oct, 15:44 UTC24d ago | 4 | – | 0.3 days | 0 |
| Thu 1 Oct, 21:49 UTC FW27d 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.
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01COMPlayers 37/200
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02COMPlayers 36/200
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03COMPlayers 18/400
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04COMPlayers 18/225
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05COMPlayers 12/200
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06COMPlayers 23/150
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Filters
Which lists and filters on Rust Tracker show RTF?
On Rust Tracker, RTF sits in these lists: Community servers, no tags and North America: live server tracking. It comes up under these filters on the server list: 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.
What do the tags mean that RTF is listed under?
These tags are published by RTF for the game's server browser to read: gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival mode for Rust; mp50 (Max players): Slots: 50; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size: 8; v2635 (Protocol): Your game must be on protocol 2635 to connect; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer — the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): Follows Facepunch's force wipe: one wipe per month; NA (North America): The server browser lists it under North America. At the top of this page you also get the queue, the players now and the world's creation time, all from the tags.
Wipe Times
What should you expect on RTF when wipe day lands?
At their busiest, recent wipes averaged 3 players. The peak on the latest wipe came 18 hours after it. Half the peak was held until the next wipe in 50% of its recent wipes. In the other cases, half the peak was lost by day 6.
When does RTF wipe?
The only wipe at RTF is the monthly force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe lands, its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes with it. Its world went live 24 days 10 hours. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
Server Details
How reliable is RTF, and is it online now?
Tracking shows RTF online as of now. About 3 days 8 hours ago it restarted last, based on reported uptime. Uptime stood at 99% for the last 7 full days, 166 of 168 hours online. The first sighting by Rust Tracker was 13 September 2026.
What Rust version is RTF on?
Confirmed for RTF: Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909, Linux. The same protocol is required to join, and Steam updates it for you.
How smoothly does RTF run?
Server fps held an average of 59 across the last 48 hours, never below 55. Maximum entities carried: 124,294, from buildings and deployables to everything else. Peak memory use: 4,085 MB. Lag, as players experience it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Where does RTF sit?
In North America, under its NA tag, is where RTF lists itself. Rust Tracker displays the location a server claims; it does not verify where the machine sits. You connect at 66.51.98.51:28025.
Population
What is the player count on RTF?
Slots 50; players on board 2: that is RTF now. Seven-day average 0 players; peak 2. At 07:00 UTC it drew its highest average of the last 48 hours: 1 players.
Where does RTF sit in the server rankings?
Top 25% of all ranked servers and #936 in North America: RTF ranks #5,614 on player hours over the last seven days.
Settings
Which settings and rules are confirmed on RTF?
The name of RTF carries no gather rate. The game's default applies: groups can have up to 8 players. survival is the game mode, gather, build, raid, as the game intends. Raiding and PvP are permitted between players. Listed under Community in the server browser, it is a community server. On: VAC, Valve's anti-cheat.
What map is RTF on?
The map on RTF is procedural, size 4,500, seed 2009818051, generated by the game. Same size, same seed, same map. RustMaps shows it, linked from this page.
How to Join
How do you get onto RTF?
Open the console in Rust with F1 after starting the game, then type client.connect 66.51.98.51:28025. Alternatively, Launch Rust here opens Rust via Steam and connects you.
Server tags
What each one means.
Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,NA,gmrust,cs168909,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp50
ts8
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
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.