RTF
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
daily · 1 is bestTop 18% of all ranked servers, top 39% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 22d 1h. 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 4, 25 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 4 Oct, 22:02 UTC9d ago | 4 | – | running | 1 |
| Sun 4 Oct, 15:44 UTC10d ago | 4 | – | 0.3 days | 0 |
| Thu 1 Oct, 21:49 UTC FW12d 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
Quick answers
Server rules
Which settings and rules apply on RTF?
You will not find a gather rate in the name RTF. Up to 8 players can group, which is the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build, raid: the regular game. You can fight and raid other players here. You will find it under Community in the server browser. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.
Which map is active on RTF?
The game generates the procedural map of size 4,500 on RTF with seed 2009818051. Same size and seed, same map: RustMaps shows it from this page.
Population
How many players are on RTF?
Right now, 0 players are on RTF, which has 50 slots. Its weekly average is 1 players and its highest point was 3. The busiest time in the last 48 hours was 20:00 UTC, when it averaged 2 players.
What position does RTF hold in the server rankings?
For player hours in the last week, RTF ranks #4,009 overall and #715 in North America, placing it in the top 18% of ranked servers.
Tags and filters
What is the meaning of the tags on RTF?
The game's server browser reads these tags from RTF: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust mode; mp50 (Max players): It holds 50 players; ts8 (Group limit): The team cap is 8, which is the game's default; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634—only players on that version can get in; cs166652 (Build): The game build is 166652; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, timed with the force wipe from Facepunch; NA (North America): In the server browser this one sits under North America. Also in the tags: its players now, its queue and the time its world was made, and the top of this page shows them.
Which Rust Zerg Life filters and lists cover RTF?
The Rust Zerg Life lists that include RTF are Rust community servers for clans and North American Rust servers. Under these filters it shows 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; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Server info
How reliable is RTF, and is it up?
You can join RTF now: it is online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 19 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, uptime was 100%: 168 hours up out of 168. Rust Zerg Life has been tracking it since 13 September 2026.
What is the performance like on RTF?
Over the past 48 hours, server fps averaged 40 and never dropped below 5. It reached a maximum of 123,540 entities, covering buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. At its highest, memory usage hit 3,546 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are the source of the lag players feel.
What Rust version is RTF on?
The server RTF runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652 with Linux as its operating system. You can only join if your game uses the same protocol, and Steam takes care of updating it.
What is the location of RTF?
With its NA tag, RTF lists itself in North America. Rust Zerg Life displays the location a server claims, not where the machine actually stands. You can reach it at 66.51.98.51:28025.
Wipe cycle
What happens on wipe day on RTF?
The average peak for its recent wipes was 3 players. On the latest wipe, 25 hours after the wipe, the crowd hit its peak. Until the next wipe, the crowd stayed above half that peak in 100% of its recent wipes.
How often does RTF wipe, and on what days?
Once a month RTF wipes, along with the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, when all Rust servers wipe. The world in play right now was made 9 days 16 hours ago. Monthly wipes are listed in its tags.
Connect
How can I connect to RTF?
You can join by opening the console with F1 and typing client.connect 66.51.98.51:28025. Or hit Launch Rust on this page to open Rust through Steam and connect.
Server tags
Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,NA,gmrust,cs166652,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp50
ts8
v2634
cs166652
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.