LiveLive coverage · NA
The count
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Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
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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.
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Top 55% of all ranked servers, top 74% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Coming up · wipe schedule
force wipes only
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 14h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 2 hours in.
The current map
Thursday 22 October 2026, 20:58 UTC
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 19:08 UTC FW
Wipe
Thursday 17 September 2026, 22:42 UTC
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.
Recent wipes on this server averaged a peak of 1 players at their busiest. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 2 hours in. Half the peak was held until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. On those occasions it fell below half by day 1.5.
The monthly force wipe is the only wipe Tiger's Testing Ground takes. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. This world dates from 6 days 7 hours. Its tags give wipes as monthly.
On Rust Live Stats, Tiger's Testing Ground is listed under Rust build and creative servers: live list, Rust creative servers, live now and North America Rust servers, live. 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 and Creative ^c; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last week.
The server browser reads gmrust (Game mode): Survival here follows standard Rust; mp50 (Max players): The slot count is 50; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team at most, the game's default setting; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2635, so match that version to join; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer — the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code is set here; ^m (Monthly): A single monthly wipe, set by Facepunch's force wipe; ^c (Creative): No gathering here; it is a creative sandbox where you build what you like; NA (North America): In the server browser it sits under North America, which Tiger's Testing Ground publishes. Also in the tags: players on now, the queue, and when the world was made. You will find them at the top of this page.
Live now: 0 players on Tiger's Testing Ground, out of 50 slots. The seven-day average is 0 players, with a peak of 1.
Tiger's Testing Ground is #1,378 in North America on the past week's player hours, and #12,359 overall in the top 55% of ranked servers.
Nothing in the name of Tiger's Testing Ground states a gather rate. No custom limit is set, so groups hold the default 8 players. build & creative applies here, sandbox building, no gathering. You find it under Community in the server browser. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
By its own NA tag, Tiger's Testing Ground sits in North America. The location shown on Rust Live Stats is the one a server gives, not a lookup of the machine's position. You can reach it at 66.51.98.59:28025.
Tiger's Testing Ground operates on Linux with Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.
Tiger's Testing Ground is up and running at this moment. 166 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 99% uptime. Rust Live Stats has tracked it since 13 September 2026.
Use Launch Rust and join on this page to open Rust through Steam and connect, or start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 66.51.98.59:28025.