Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs
Online NA 66.51.99.163:28000 checked 12m 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 69% of all ranked servers, top 80% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 6d 20h. 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, 37 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 17:47 UTC FW28d ago | 2 | – | running | 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 Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs?
You'll find Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Modded Rust servers, live and North America: who's hot right now. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: Hardcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Hardcore ^h, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
What do the server tags on Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs mean?
These are the tags Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs publishes for the browser: gmhardcore (Game mode): A harsher ruleset, hardcore; mp40 (Max players): It has 40 slots; ts0 (Group limit): You can't team up: teams are disabled; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^m (Monthly): The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe; ^h (Hardcore): Facepunch's hardcore mode: harsher survival and fewer helpers; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing; ^y (Carbon): A plugin framework called Carbon is running here; NA (North America): The server browser lists it under North America. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.
Player counts
How does Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs rank against other Rust servers?
For the last seven days of player hours, Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs sits at #15,276, inside the top 69% of ranked servers and at #1,493 in North America.
How many players are on Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs right now?
Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs is holding 0 players, with 40 slots in total. It has averaged 0 players over the last seven days.
Server details
Is Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs online, and how reliable is it?
Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs is live at the moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 34 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 99%, with 167 out of 168 hours online. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.
Does Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs run smoothly?
The 48-hour average was 60 server fps, with a low of 54. Entities reached a maximum of 106,593: buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 3,784 MB of memory was used. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.
Where is Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs located?
In North America, Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs lists itself with its NA tag. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 66.51.99.163:28000.
Which Rust version is Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs on?
On Linux, Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.
Wipe days
What happens on Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs when wipe day comes around?
The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 2 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 37 hours in.
What is the wipe schedule on Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs?
Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs 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 28 days 4 hours. The tags hold a monthly wipe schedule.
Map and rules
Which map does Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs run?
The procedural map on Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs measures 4,250, generated by the game. Custom Map is how the map name reads.
What are the rules and settings on Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs?
The name of Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs says nothing about gather rate. The group limit goes unpublished. hardcore is the game mode, Facepunch's most punishing mode. Raids and PvP are both on the table. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. The plugin count is Carbon. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.
Getting in
How do I join Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs?
Enter client.connect 66.51.99.163:28000 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically. You can find its website at https://discord.com/invite/TjqW7Cwed5.