RTF
Online NA 66.51.98.51:28025 checked 10m ago
Vital stats
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 22% of all ranked servers, top 44% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 6d 18h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
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
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 23 Oct, 01:46 UTC6d ago | 2 | – | running | 0 |
| Sun 4 Oct, 22:02 UTC25d ago | 4 | halved by day 6 | 18.2 days | 1 |
| Sun 4 Oct, 15:44 UTC25d ago | 4 | – | 0.3 days | 0 |
| Thu 1 Oct, 21:49 UTC FW28d 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.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Lists and tags
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include RTF?
These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include RTF: Community servers, by the numbers and North America: who's hot right now. It appears 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 server tags on RTF mean?
The game's server browser picks up these tags from RTF: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp50 (Max players): There are 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe; NA (North America): Its place in the server browser is under North America. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.
Population
How does RTF rank against other Rust servers?
For the last seven days of player hours, RTF sits at #4,816, inside the top 22% of ranked servers and at #817 in North America.
How many players are on RTF right now?
RTF is holding 0 players, with 50 slots in total. Peak for the week was 4, against an average of 0 players. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 16:00 UTC, averaging 3 players.
Server details
Is RTF online, and how reliable is it?
Right now, RTF is up and running. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 3 days 21 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 143, a 85% uptime. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.
Does RTF run smoothly?
Its server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 59, with 50 as the lowest. Entities reached a maximum of 124,294: buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 4,194 MB of memory was used. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.
Where is RTF located?
RTF uses its NA tag to list itself in North America. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 66.51.98.51:28025.
Which Rust version is RTF on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version RTF runs on Linux. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe times
What happens on RTF when wipe day comes around?
The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 3 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 18 hours in. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 50% of its recent wipes. If it did not hold, half the peak was gone by day 6.
What is the wipe schedule on RTF?
Once a month is the whole wipe story for RTF, tied to the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives: its next wipe, and one that hits every Rust server. Its current world has been live for 24 days 23 hours. The tags hold a monthly wipe schedule.
The rules
Which map does RTF run?
The procedural map on RTF measures 4,500 and comes from the game with seed 2009818051. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.
What are the rules and settings on RTF?
No gather rate appears in the name of RTF. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. gather, build and raid, as standard: that is the survival mode. Raids and PvP are both on the table. Community is its listing in the server browser. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.
How to join
How do I join RTF?
The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 66.51.98.51:28025. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.