RTF
NA 66.51.98.51:28025 checked 12m 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
Top 18% of all ranked servers, top 39% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 22d 0h. 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
- 22d 0hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 4, 25 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 4 Oct, 22:02 UTC 9d ago | 4 | – | running | 1 |
| Sun 4 Oct, 15:44 UTC 10d ago | 4 | – | 0.3 days | 0 |
| Thu 1 Oct, 21:49 UTCFW 12d 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
Quick answers
Population
Where does RTF sit in the rankings?
RTF ranks #714 in North America and #4,008 overall on player hours over the last seven days, in the top 18% of ranked servers.
What is the player count on RTF?
The current player count for RTF is 0, out of 50 slots. Averaged across the last seven days: 1 players, peaking at 3. In the last 48 hours, 20:00 UTC saw the highest activity, with an average of 2 players.
Server Tags
RTF tags: what do they indicate?
Read by the game's server browser, the tags RTF publishes are: gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival, standard; mp50 (Max players): Slots: 50; ts8 (Group limit): The game default is 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): Your game must be on protocol 2634 to connect; cs166652 (Build): Game build number: 166652; ptrak (Networking): Network layer: RakNet, the standard; $r? (Region code): Region code missing; ^m (Monthly): Wipe cycle: monthly, with the force wipe; NA (North America): The server browser lists it under North America. Current players, queue and world creation time come from the tags and appear at the top of this page.
Where does RTF appear in BestRustServers.xyz lists and filters?
The BestRustServers.xyz lists that include RTF are: Rust community servers, ranked and North American Rust servers. On the server list, the filters that bring it up are: 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.
Server Details
RTF Rust version: which one?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652 on Linux is what RTF uses. Your game has to match the protocol to connect; Steam takes care of updating it.
RTF performance: is it smooth?
Its average server fps over the last 48 hours was 39, with a low of 5. The entity count reached 123,580, covering buildings, deployables and all other world objects. The maximum memory used was 3,546 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt by players as lag.
RTF uptime and reliability: what are they?
At the moment, RTF is up. According to its reported uptime, the last restart was about 20 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours. It was first seen by BestRustServers.xyz on 13 September 2026.
RTF location: where is it?
With its NA tag, RTF lists itself in North America. BestRustServers.xyz shows the stated location of a server; the actual location of the machine is not looked up. 66.51.98.51:28025 is its address.
Settings & Map
What is the map on RTF?
On RTF, the map is procedural, size 4,500 with seed 2009818051, generated by the game. The map can be viewed on RustMaps from this page, since size and seed fix it.
RTF rules and settings: what are they?
No gather rate appears in the name of RTF. The default cap of 8 players per group is in force. Listed as survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. Raids and PvP are on. Community is its browser category. VAC protection is on.
Wipe Information
On what schedule does RTF wipe?
The force wipe is the one monthly wipe on RTF. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes its next wipe: the force wipe that takes every Rust server. The world in play was made 9 days 17 hours. Monthly wipes appear in its tags.
On RTF, what occurs on wipe day?
An average peak of 3 players was drawn by its recent wipes. 25 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak. Half the peak was held until the next wipe in 100% of its recent wipes.
Connect
How can I connect to RTF?
Enter client.connect 66.51.98.51:28025 in the console (F1 in Rust), or use Launch Rust on this page to open Steam and connect.
Server tags
Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,NA,gmrust,cs166652,ts8
Game
gmrust- Game mode Rust survival, standard.
mp50- Max players Slots: 50.
ts8- Group limit The game default is 8 per team.
v2634- Protocol Your game must be on protocol 2634 to connect.
cs166652- Build Game build number: 166652.
ptrak- Networking Network layer: RakNet, the standard.
$r?- Region code Region code missing.
Wipe schedule
^m- Monthly Wipe cycle: monthly, with the force wipe.
Region
NA- North America The server browser lists it under North America.
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.