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Rusty Goats | Hybrid | Noob Friendly | Solo/Duo/Trio

Online NA 66.51.99.163:28012 checked 11m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 40 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 2
Rank#6,082top 27% · #988 in NA
RegionNANA · group trio
Last wipe26d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 7hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75112:0021:0006:0015:0001:0010:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

02040608012:0021:0006:0015:0001:0010:00

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.

Climbing the charts

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
12k4k6k8k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 27% of all ranked servers, top 53% in NA, and #386 of the trio servers (top 62%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 7h. The force wipe · high confidence

1 days
usual gap
between real wipes
4
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

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

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Fri 2 OctThu 1 Oct
02468+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 4, 1 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 2 Oct, 18:34 UTC26d ago 4 – running 2
Thu 1 Oct, 17:47 UTC FW27d ago 5 – 1 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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The interview

Quick answers

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Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Rusty Goats | Hybrid | Noob Friendly | Solo/Duo/Trio?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include Rusty Goats | Hybrid | Noob Friendly | Solo/Duo/Trio: Who's hot: beginner Rust servers, Modded Rust servers, live, Trio servers: who's hot, who's slipping and North America: who's hot right now. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: Trio; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

What do the server tags on Rusty Goats | Hybrid | Noob Friendly | Solo/Duo/Trio mean?

For the server browser, Rusty Goats | Hybrid | Noob Friendly | Solo/Duo/Trio lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp40 (Max players): Slots: 40; ts3 (Group limit): Teams cap at 3 players; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join; cs168909 (Build): It's on game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^m (Monthly): The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe; ^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): In the server browser it sits under North America. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

The players

How does Rusty Goats | Hybrid | Noob Friendly | Solo/Duo/Trio rank against other Rust servers?

For the last seven days of player hours, Rusty Goats | Hybrid | Noob Friendly | Solo/Duo/Trio sits at #6,082, inside the top 27% of ranked servers and at #988 in North America. Within the trio category, it sits at #386.

How many players are on Rusty Goats | Hybrid | Noob Friendly | Solo/Duo/Trio right now?

The current tally at Rusty Goats | Hybrid | Noob Friendly | Solo/Duo/Trio: 0 players across 40 slots. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 2. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 19:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.

Server facts

Is Rusty Goats | Hybrid | Noob Friendly | Solo/Duo/Trio online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Rusty Goats | Hybrid | Noob Friendly | Solo/Duo/Trio is up and running. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 24 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 167, a 99% uptime. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does Rusty Goats | Hybrid | Noob Friendly | Solo/Duo/Trio run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 59, and it never went below 28. At its peak it held 120,350 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Up to 4,718 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is Rusty Goats | Hybrid | Noob Friendly | Solo/Duo/Trio located?

In North America, Rusty Goats | Hybrid | Noob Friendly | Solo/Duo/Trio 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. Connect at 66.51.99.163:28012.

Which Rust version is Rusty Goats | Hybrid | Noob Friendly | Solo/Duo/Trio on?

On Linux, Rusty Goats | Hybrid | Noob Friendly | Solo/Duo/Trio runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

The wipe schedule

What happens on Rusty Goats | Hybrid | Noob Friendly | Solo/Duo/Trio when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 4 players. 1 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

What is the wipe schedule on Rusty Goats | Hybrid | Noob Friendly | Solo/Duo/Trio?

Wipes on Rusty Goats | Hybrid | Noob Friendly | Solo/Duo/Trio come once a month, alongside the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 26 days 16 hours is when the present world was made. The tags hold a monthly wipe schedule.

The rules

Which map does Rusty Goats | Hybrid | Noob Friendly | Solo/Duo/Trio run?

The procedural map on Rusty Goats | Hybrid | Noob Friendly | Solo/Duo/Trio measures 4,500 and comes from the game with seed 1337. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map. The map name, as written, is Custom Map.

What are the rules and settings on Rusty Goats | Hybrid | Noob Friendly | Solo/Duo/Trio?

No gather rate appears in the name of Rusty Goats | Hybrid | Noob Friendly | Solo/Duo/Trio. The cap on groups is 3 players (trio). survival is the game mode, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. Carbon plugins power it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Join up

How do I join Rusty Goats | Hybrid | Noob Friendly | Solo/Duo/Trio?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 66.51.99.163:28012. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting. For more, see https://discord.com/invite/TjqW7Cwed5.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^z,^y,^m,NA,gmrust,cs168909,ts3

Game

gmrust
Game mode Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp40
Max players Slots: 40.
ts3
Group limit Teams cap at 3 players.
v2635
Protocol The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join.
cs168909
Build It's on game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code No region code has been set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe.

Mods and access

^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing.
^y
Carbon A plugin framework called Carbon is running here.

Region

NA
North America In the server browser it sits 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.