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, measured since 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
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Top 69% of all ranked servers, top 80% 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 6d 16h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 37 hours in.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 17:47 UTC FW
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.
At their busiest, its recent wipes averaged 2 players. 37 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak.
Once a month is all Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs wipes, together with the force wipe. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC brings the force wipe, its next wipe and one that hits every Rust server. This world dates from 28 days 8 hours. Its tags give wipes as monthly.
On Rust Live Stats, Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs is listed under Modded Rust servers live now and North America Rust servers, live. You will find it on the server list under Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: Hardcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Hardcore ^h, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
The server browser reads gmhardcore (Game mode): Hardcore ruleset: a harsher game; mp40 (Max players): 40 slots are available; ts0 (Group limit): This server switches teams off; v2635 (Protocol): Join only if your game is on protocol 2635; 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; ^h (Hardcore): Hardcore mode: Facepunch's harsher survival, with fewer helpers; ^z (Modded): The game changes here through plugins or settings, so it is Modded; ^y (Carbon): It uses the plugin framework Carbon; NA (North America): In the server browser it sits under North America, which Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs publishes. The current player count, the queue and the world's creation time also sit in the tags, shown at the top of this page.
0 of Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs's 40 slots are filled right now. Across the past week the average was 0 players.
North America places Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs at #1,496; overall it is #15,269, inside the top 69% of ranked servers, by seven-day player hours.
The name Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs carries no gather rate. No group limit appears in its listing. hardcore applies here, Hardest of Facepunch's modes. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. Modded is its browser category, where plugins or settings change the game. Carbon plugins are in use. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
A procedural map of 4,250, generated by the game, runs on Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs. Map name, as listed: Custom Map.
By its own NA tag, Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs 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 66.51.99.163:28000.
The average server fps was 60 over the last 48 hours; the lowest was 57. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to a maximum of 106,593 entities. Memory use peaked at 3,867 MB. Lag, as players feel it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs runs. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.
At the time of this update, Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs is live. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 39 hours ago. 167 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 99% uptime. On 13 September 2026, Rust Live Stats saw it for the first time.
Use Launch Rust and join on this page to open Rust through Steam and connect, or start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 66.51.99.163:28000. You can find its website at https://discord.com/invite/TjqW7Cwed5.
