Players
Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs
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 69% of all ranked servers, top 80% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 6d 19h. 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, 37 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 17:47 UTC FW28d ago | 2 | – | running | 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.
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Quick answers
Server details
Is Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs online, and how reliable is it?
You will find Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs online at this moment. Going by the reported uptime, it restarted roughly 36 hours ago. It stayed up 99% of the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours. Its earliest entry with Rust Charts dates from 13 September 2026.
Where is Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs located?
With its NA tag, Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs puts itself in North America. Rust Charts shows the location a server claims, not where the machine actually is. You'll find it at 66.51.99.163:28000.
Which version of Rust does Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs run?
The build behind Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909, hosted on Linux. Your game must match the protocol to get in, and Steam keeps it updated for you.
Does Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs run smoothly?
The 48-hour average was 59 server fps; the lowest point was 54. At its fullest it held 106,593 entities: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Its memory climbed as high as 3,867 MB. Lag, as players experience it, is low fps plus entities piling up.
Player counts
How busy is Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs?
Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs has 0 of its 40 slots filled right now. Averaged over seven days, it drew 0 players.
How does Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs rank against other Rust servers?
On player hours for the past week, Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs is #15,290: top 69% overall and #1,497 in North America.
Wipe schedule
What does wipe day look like on Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs?
The busiest point of its recent wipes averaged 2 players. The crowd on the latest wipe hit its peak 37 hours in.
What is the wipe schedule on Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs?
Once a month is the whole of it: Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs wipes with the force wipe. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the next wipe, the force wipe that takes every Rust server. The world it runs now dates from 28 days 5 hours. Its tags carry a wipe schedule of once a month.
How it is set up
What are the rules and settings on Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs?
The name Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs carries no gather rate. The group limit is not published. You play hardcore, Facepunch's most difficult mode. You can fight and raid other players. Modded in the server browser is where it sits; plugins or settings alter the game. You will find Carbon plugins running. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is on.
Which map does Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs run?
A procedural map of size 4,250, generated by the game, is what Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs runs. The name of the map is: Custom Map.
Tag guide
Which Rust Charts lists and filters include Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs?
These Rust Charts lists include Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs: Modded Rust servers and Region: North America. These filters on the server list bring it up: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: Hardcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Hardcore ^h, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
What do the server tags on Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs mean?
gmhardcore (Game mode): The hardcore ruleset applies, which is harsher; mp40 (Max players): It has 40 slots; ts0 (Group limit): Teams are disabled; v2635 (Protocol): Protocol 2635: join only if your game matches that version; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, the game's default; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code; ^m (Monthly): One wipe a month, together with the force wipe; ^h (Hardcore): Facepunch's hardcore ruleset, with fewer helpers and a harder world; ^z (Modded): Plugins or changed settings put this server under Modded; ^y (Carbon): Plugins run on Carbon here; NA (North America): North America is where the server browser lists it — that's the set of tags Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs publishes for the server browser. Player numbers now, queue size and world creation time sit in the tags as well, shown at the top of this page.
Join details
How do I join Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and type client.connect 66.51.99.163:28000. Joining on this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you. https://discord.com/invite/TjqW7Cwed5 is where its website sits.
