Tiger's Testing Ground
Online NA 66.51.98.59:28025 checked 11m 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. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 56% of all ranked servers, top 74% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 13h. 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 1, 2 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 22 Oct, 20:58 UTC6d ago | 1 | – | running | 0 |
| Thu 1 Oct, 19:08 UTC FW27d ago | 1 | halved by day 2 | 21.1 days | 0 |
| Thu 17 Sep, 22:42 UTC41d ago | 1 | halved by day 1 | 13.9 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.
Server tags
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Tiger's Testing Ground?
You'll find Tiger's Testing Ground on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Build and creative servers, live, Rust creative servers, watched and North America: who's hot right now. 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 and Creative ^c; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last week.
What do the server tags on Tiger's Testing Ground mean?
These are the tags Tiger's Testing Ground publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): It has 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^m (Monthly): The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe; ^c (Creative): Build what you like in this sandbox, with no gathering; 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.
The players
How does Tiger's Testing Ground rank against other Rust servers?
Tiger's Testing Ground takes #12,362 on seven-day player hours, a top 56% spot overall and #1,377 across North America.
How many players are on Tiger's Testing Ground right now?
0 players are on Tiger's Testing Ground at the moment, out of 50 slots. Peak for the week was 1, against an average of 0 players.
Server facts
Is Tiger's Testing Ground online, and how reliable is it?
Tiger's Testing Ground is live at the moment. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 166 of 168 hours in total. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.
Where is Tiger's Testing Ground located?
With its NA tag, Tiger's Testing Ground lists 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 66.51.98.59:28025.
Which Rust version is Tiger's Testing Ground on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version Tiger's Testing Ground runs on Linux. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.
Wipe days
What happens on Tiger's Testing Ground when wipe day comes around?
The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 1 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 2 hours after it began. Its recent wipes kept the crowd above half the peak until the next one 0% of the time. In the wipes that didn't hold, the crowd sank below half by day 1.5.
What is the wipe schedule on Tiger's Testing Ground?
Tiger's Testing Ground wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. Its current world has been live for 6 days 8 hours. Its tags commit to wipes each month.
The rules
What are the rules and settings on Tiger's Testing Ground?
No gather rate appears in the name of Tiger's Testing Ground. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. building in a sandbox, with no gathering: that is the build & creative mode. It appears under Community in the browser. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.
Getting in
How do I join Tiger's Testing Ground?
The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 66.51.98.59:28025. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.