On air · chart position #5,615
RTF
Online NA 66.51.98.51:28025 checked 12m ago
Players
RTF
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 25% of all ranked servers, top 50% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 6h. 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 2, 18 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 23 Oct, 01:46 UTC6d ago | 2 | – | running | 0 |
| Sun 4 Oct, 22:02 UTC24d ago | 4 | halved by day 6 | 18.2 days | 1 |
| Sun 4 Oct, 15:44 UTC24d ago | 4 | – | 0.3 days | 0 |
| Thu 1 Oct, 21:49 UTC FW27d 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 details
Is RTF online, and how reliable is it?
Right now RTF is running. About 3 days 9 hours ago is when it last restarted, to go by the uptime it reports. Of the past 7 full days it was running for 166 of 168 hours, or 99% of the time. Rust Charts has tracked it since 13 September 2026.
Where is RTF located?
The NA tag is how RTF lists its location: North America. Rust Charts doesn't look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. You'll find it at 66.51.98.51:28025.
Which version of Rust does RTF run?
The build behind RTF is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909, hosted on Linux. Steam updates your game for you; all you need is the same protocol to join.
Does RTF run smoothly?
Never under 55, and 59 server fps on average, is how the last 48 hours went. At its fullest it held 124,294 entities: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Memory use peaked at 4,085 MB. What players feel as lag comes from low fps and an entity count on the rise.
Player counts
How busy is RTF?
Right now 2 players are on RTF, out of 50 slots. Over the last week it averaged 0 players; the high point was 2. Over the past 48 hours, 11:00 UTC drew the most, at 1 players on average.
How does RTF rank against other Rust servers?
The last seven days of player hours put RTF at #5,615, top 25% of ranked servers, and #936 in North America.
Wipes and resets
What does wipe day look like on RTF?
At their busiest, its recent wipes averaged 3 players. 18 hours into the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak. Half the peak was the floor until the next wipe in 50% of recent wipes. Day 6 is when it dropped below half in the wipes that didn't hold.
What is the wipe schedule on RTF?
A single monthly wipe, the force wipe, is all RTF runs. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, and that is its next wipe. The world it runs now dates from 24 days 11 hours. Its tags carry a wipe schedule of once a month.
Settings and map
What are the rules and settings on RTF?
The name RTF carries no gather rate. The default group size of 8 players applies here. You play survival, raid, build and gather: the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. Valve's VAC anti-cheat is active.
Which map does RTF run?
The map on RTF is procedural, size 4,500, seed 2009818051, made by the game. From this page you can look at it on RustMaps; the same size and seed make the same map.
Tag guide
Which Rust Charts lists and filters include RTF?
The Rust Charts lists that carry RTF are: Rust community servers, unmodded and Region: North America. It appears under these filters 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.
What do the server tags on RTF mean?
The game's server browser sees these tags from RTF: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp50 (Max players): It has 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The game default applies: teams of up to 8; v2635 (Protocol): Your game must run protocol 2635 to get in; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): The region code is unset; ^m (Monthly): One wipe a month, together with the force wipe; NA (North America): In the server browser it sits under North America. At the top of this page you'll see the tags' extra details: players now, the queue, and the age of the world.
Join details
How do I join RTF?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and type client.connect 66.51.98.51:28025. Joining on this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you.