RTF
Online NA 66.51.98.51:28025 checked 8m ago
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 17h. The force wipe · high confidence
- usual gap
- 2.7 daysbetween real wipes
- on rhythm
- 33%of its recent wipes
- wipe-day peak
- 3players, last three wipes
- crowd held
- 50%else halves by day 6
Coming wipes
- in 6d 17hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- in 34d 17hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
23 OCT 2026Fri 23 Oct, 01:46 UTC7d ago |
2 | – | running | 0 |
4 OCT 2026Sun 4 Oct, 22:02 UTC25d ago |
4 | halved by day 6 | 18.2 days | 1 |
4 OCT 2026Sun 4 Oct, 15:44 UTC25d ago |
4 | – | 0.3 days | 0 |
1 OCT 2026Thu 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.
Map and rules
What settings and rules does RTF run?
No gather rate appears in the name RTF. The default group limit of 8 players applies. Filed under survival, gather, build and raid: the standard game. Fighting and raiding other players is permitted. It is listed under Community in the server browser and is a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What is the map on RTF?
Size 4,500, seed 2009818051: the game generates the procedural map on RTF. The map can be seen on RustMaps from this page, because the same size and seed give the same map.
Tags and filters
On Rust Server Index, which lists and filters carry RTF?
The Rust Server Index lists that include RTF are Community Rust servers, indexed and North American Rust servers. These filters on the server list bring it up: 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.
Which tags are attached to RTF, and what do they stand for?
The server's own tags are listed here, and the game's server browser reads them: RTF gives gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival, as standard; mp50 (Max players): The queue ceiling sits at 50; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, the default setting; v2635 (Protocol): Your client must run protocol 2635 to connect; cs168909 (Build): It runs build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, as standard for Rust; $r? (Region code): A region code is absent; ^m (Monthly): A monthly cycle: wipes fall with Facepunch's force wipe; NA (North America): North America is the region shown in the server browser. See also the top of this page, where the tags carry the current players, the queue and the time the world was made.
Wipe dates
How does a wipe day run on RTF?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew 3 players on average. 18 hours into the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak. Its recent wipes kept the crowd above half the peak until the next wipe 50% of the time. In the other cases, numbers dropped below half by day 6.
When does RTF wipe?
One wipe a month is all RTF runs, and it comes with the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 25 days is when its current world was made. Its tags state a wipe schedule of once a month.
Player counts
What position does RTF hold among Rust servers?
Filed under rankings: #4,814 for RTF on seven-day player hours, #820 in North America, top 22% overall.
How many players are on RTF at the moment?
RTF is currently showing 0 players on 50 slots. The seven-day average is 0 players; the peak reached 4. Over the last 48 hours, 16:00 UTC drew the highest average: 3 players.
Operator and status
What version does RTF use?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what you will find on RTF. To join you need the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
How reliable is RTF, and is it online now?
Right now RTF is up and running. Its reported uptime gives the last restart as roughly 3 days 22 hours ago. It was up 167 of 168 hours across the last 7 full days, or 99% of the time. It was first recorded by Rust Server Index on 13 September 2026.
What is performance like on RTF?
The last 48 hours give an average of 58 server fps and a floor of 23. The entity count reached 124,294, covering buildings, deployables and all else in the world. Memory use reached as much as 4,681 MB. Lag, to players, is low fps and an entity count that climbs.
What is the location of RTF?
RTF gives North America as its location and the tag NA. What Rust Server Index shows is the stated location, not the machine's actual position, which it does not look up. You will reach it at 66.51.98.51:28025.
How to join
How can you connect to RTF?
Enter client.connect 66.51.98.51:28025 in the console, opened with F1. Or join on this page with Launch Rust, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
Server tags
What each one means.
Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,NA,gmrust,cs168909,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp50
ts8
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Region
NA
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.