Element card · group Community · atomic number 12,368, its rank
Tiger's Testing Ground
Online NA 66.51.98.59:28025 checked 6m 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. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is best
Top 56% of all ranked servers, top 74% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 8h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 7d 8hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 35d 8hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 2 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 22 Oct, 20:58 UTC6d ago | 1 | – | running | 0 |
| Thu 1 Oct, 19:08 UTC FW27d ago | 1 | halved by day 2 | 21.1 days | 0 |
| Thu 17 Sep, 22:42 UTC41d ago | 1 | halved by day 1 | 13.9 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
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What rules has Tiger's Testing Ground set, and what settings are in force?
The name of Tiger's Testing Ground carries no gather rate. Eight players per group is the limit, the game's default. Play runs as build & creative, no gathering: sandbox building. The server browser lists it under Community. Anti-cheat is on: Valve's VAC.
Server details
In what location does Tiger's Testing Ground sit?
Tiger's Testing Ground gives North America as its location, using the NA tag. What a server states is what Rust Data Lab shows for location; no lookup of the machine's whereabouts is made. You will find it at 66.51.98.59:28025.
Which Rust version is Tiger's Testing Ground on?
On Linux, Tiger's Testing Ground is running Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Your game needs to match the protocol to join, and Steam updates it automatically.
Does Tiger's Testing Ground stay up, and how reliable is its uptime?
Right now, Tiger's Testing Ground is reachable. It was online for 166 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, which is 99% uptime. On 13 September 2026, Rust Data Lab saw it for the first time.
Wipe schedule
How often does a wipe happen on Tiger's Testing Ground, and at what time?
Once a month is all Tiger's Testing Ground wipes, with the force wipe. The next time this server wipes will be the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which wipes every Rust server. Counting back, the current world began 6 days 13 hours ago. A monthly wipe schedule is what its tags publish.
On Tiger's Testing Ground, what happens when wipe day arrives?
Recent wipes on average reached 1 players at their busiest. 2 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that held in 0% of its recent wipes. The crowd fell below half by day 1.5 when it didn't hold.
Lists and tags
Which meanings sit behind the tags on Tiger's Testing Ground?
The game's server browser reads the tags Tiger's Testing Ground publishes, which are gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): It has 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2635, so your game needs the same version; cs168909 (Build): Build number: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, tied to Facepunch's force wipe; ^c (Creative): Build freely in a sandbox, with no gathering needed; NA (North America): The server browser files it under North America. The tags carry more as well: current players, the queue and when the world was made, all shown at the top of this page.
Which Rust Data Lab filters and lists does Tiger's Testing Ground appear in?
These themed Rust Data Lab lists carry Tiger's Testing Ground: Rust build and creative servers, Creative Rust servers and North American Rust servers: the sample. These filters bring it up on the server list: 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.
Player counts
Against other Rust servers, where does Tiger's Testing Ground place?
Tiger's Testing Ground is #12,368 on seven-day player hours, #1,371 in North America, and in the top 56% of all ranked servers.
How many players does Tiger's Testing Ground have at the moment?
At the moment Tiger's Testing Ground has 0 of its 50 slots filled. A seven-day sample gives 0 players on average and 1 at the top.
How to join
What is the way to join Tiger's Testing Ground?
You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and entering client.connect 66.51.98.59:28025, or by pressing Launch Rust here, which starts the game through Steam and joins for you.