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Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs
Online NA 66.51.99.163:28000 checked 12m 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, measured since 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is best
Top 69% of all ranked servers, top 80% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 6d 18h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 6d 18hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 34d 18hThu 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 2, 37 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| 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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What map is in play on Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs?
A procedural map of size 4,250 runs on Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs, generated by the game. The name of the map is: Custom Map.
What rules has Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs set, and what settings are in force?
The name of Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs carries no gather rate. The server publishes no limit on group size. hardcore is the game mode, Facepunch's toughest setting. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. The server browser lists it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. The plugin count is Carbon. Anti-cheat is on: Valve's VAC.
About the server
Which location is Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs based in?
The NA tag is how Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs lists itself, in North America. What a server states is what Rust Data Lab shows for location; no lookup of the machine's whereabouts is made. Connect at 66.51.99.163:28000.
On what Rust version does Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs operate?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs uses. Your game needs to match the protocol to join, and Steam updates it automatically.
How reliably does Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs stay online?
Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs is live as of now. The uptime it reports suggests it restarted roughly 37 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, 143 of 168 hours were online, giving 85% uptime. It first appeared to Rust Data Lab on 13 September 2026.
Does Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs hold a steady performance?
The last 48 hours show an average of 59 server fps and a minimum of 54. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to as many as 106,593 entities. Up to 3,867 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Wipe schedule
What is the wiping pattern on Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs?
Once a month is all Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs wipes, with the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, this server wipes again: that is the force wipe that resets all Rust servers. 28 days 6 hours ago the current world was made. Its tags set out a wipe schedule of once a month.
What does a typical wipe day on Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs involve?
Recent wipes on average reached 2 players at their busiest. The latest wipe's peak fell 37 hours after it began.
Lists and tags
Which meanings sit behind the tags on Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs?
gmhardcore (Game mode): Hardcore rules make this a tougher mode; mp40 (Max players): Player slots: 40; ts0 (Group limit): Teams are not available on this server; v2635 (Protocol): Protocol 2635 is required; join only if your game matches it; cs168909 (Build): It runs build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust; $r? (Region code): The region field is left blank; ^m (Monthly): Wipes happen monthly, at the force wipe; ^h (Hardcore): Fewer helpers and a harsher game: that is Facepunch's hardcore mode; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it lists under Modded; ^y (Carbon): This server uses the Carbon plugin framework; NA (North America): North America is where the browser lists this server: that is the tag list Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs publishes, and the game's server browser reads it. The tags carry more as well: current players, the queue and when the world was made, all shown at the top of this page.
Where among the Rust Data Lab lists and filters does Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs come up?
These themed Rust Data Lab lists carry Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs: Modded Rust servers, measured and North American Rust servers: the sample. Applying these filters on the server list returns it: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: Hardcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Hardcore ^h, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
Player counts
What position does Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs hold among Rust servers?
Seven-day player hours place Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs at #15,262 overall, #1,495 in North America and in the top 69% of ranked servers.
What does the current player count on Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs tell you?
At the moment Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs has 0 of its 40 slots filled. The seven-day average for this server is 0 players.
Connection
How can you connect to Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs?
You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and entering client.connect 66.51.99.163:28000, or by pressing Launch Rust here, which starts the game through Steam and joins for you. For more, visit https://discord.com/invite/TjqW7Cwed5.