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RTF

Online NA 66.51.98.51:28025 checked 5m ago

monthly wipes

Players now

Live
2of 50
Full
4%
In queue
0
Peak, 48 hours
2
Peak, 7 days
2

4% full

Tue 14:00Thu 11:00players each hour · 48 hours · UTC

Rank

#5,530

top 25% · #926 in NA

7-day average

0

peak 2

Last wipe

24d ago

monthly schedule

Next wipe

7d 5h

Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW

Players

AveragePeak
00.511.5214:0023:0008:0016:0002:0011:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

02040608014:0023:0008:0016:0002:0011:00

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
12.5k5k7.5k10k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 25% of all ranked servers, top 50% 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 7d 5h. The force wipe · high confidence

2.7 daysusual gapbetween real wipes
33%on rhythmof its recent wipes
3wipe-day peakplayers, last three wipes
50%crowd heldelse halves by day 6

Coming wipes

  • 7d 5hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
  • 35d 5hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Fri 23 OctSun 4 OctSun 4 Oct
01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 18 hours in.

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers 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.

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Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Server details

Is RTF online, and how reliable is it?

Right now RTF is running. About 3 days 9 hours ago it restarted, judging by the uptime figure it gives. The last 7 full days show 99% uptime, with 166 hours up out of 168. The first time Rust Dashboard recorded it was 13 September 2026.

Which version of Rust does RTF run?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is running on RTF, which sits on Linux. Steam keeps your game updated, so it will be on the same protocol and able to join.

Where is RTF located?

In North America, RTF lists itself with the NA tag. Rust Dashboard takes the location a server gives; the machine's real position is not checked. You'll connect at 66.51.98.51:28025.

Does RTF run smoothly?

Across the last 48 hours the average was 59 fps, with a floor of 55. Buildings, deployables and everything else added up to a peak of 124,294 entities. At its highest, it took 4,085 MB of memory. A low fps figure and an entity count that keeps rising are what lag feels like to players.

Tags

Which Rust Dashboard lists and filters include RTF?

The Rust Dashboard lists that carry RTF are: Best Rust community servers and North American Rust servers. These filters bring it up 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 server tags on RTF mean?

These are the tags RTF publishes, read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival is the game mode; mp50 (Max players): 50 is the slot count; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default the game ships with; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635; your build has to match it to join; cs168909 (Build): This one runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the standard network layer for the game, and it is what runs here; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): Expect one wipe a month: it lands with the Facepunch force wipe; NA (North America): North America is where the server browser puts it. The tags also carry the current player count, the queue and when the world was made, all shown at the top of this page.

Player counts

How busy is RTF?

As things stand, 2 players are on RTF, which holds 50 slots. Averaged across the last seven days: 0 players, peaking at 2. The busiest point in the last 48 hours was 11:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.

How does RTF rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over seven days put RTF at #5,530 overall and #926 in North America, in the top 25% of all ranked servers.

Wipe days

What does wipe day look like on RTF?

At their busiest, its recent wipes drew 3 players on average. Peak crowd on the latest wipe came 18 hours after it began. Above half that peak until the next wipe: that held in 50% of recent wipes. By day 6 it had fallen below half, where the crowd did not hold.

What is the wipe schedule on RTF?

Wipes come once a month on RTF, in step with the force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, and that is its next wipe. The world now in play was generated 24 days 11 hours ago. A monthly wipe schedule is set out in its tags.

Map and rules

What are the rules and settings on RTF?

You will not find a gather rate in the name of RTF. The group limit is 8 players, which is the game's default. survival is what it plays, gather, build and raid: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players are both allowed. The server browser lists it under Community. Valve's VAC anti-cheat runs here.

Which map does RTF run?

A procedural map of size 4,500 with seed 2009818051 is what RTF runs, generated by the game. Because size and seed fix the map, a RustMaps view is available from this page.

How to join

How do I join RTF?

Type client.connect 66.51.98.51:28025 in the Rust console, which F1 opens. Launch Rust on this page also works: Steam opens Rust and connects you.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,NA,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Standard Rust survival is the game mode.
mp50
Max players 50 is the slot count.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default the game ships with.
v2635
Protocol The game protocol is 2635; your build has to match it to join.
cs168909
Build This one runs game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the standard network layer for the game, and it is what runs here.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Expect one wipe a month: it lands with the Facepunch force wipe.

Region

NA
North America North America is where the server browser puts it.

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.