Online NA 66.51.99.163:28000 checked 8m ago
Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs
By the numbersMatch stats
against its 40 slotsThe story of the match
Players, performance and rank, hour by hour and day by day.
CrowdPlayers
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
FitnessServer 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.
FormRank
daily · 1 is bestTop 69% of all ranked servers, top 81% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
FixturesWipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipeThursday 5 November, 19:00 UTCin 7d 1h The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 7d 1hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 35d 1hThu 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.
ResultsWipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 17:47 UTC FW27d 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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Operator and location
Is Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs online, and how reliable is it?
Online now, Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs is up. Going by the uptime it reports, the last restart came about 29 hours ago. 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, which is 167 of 168 hours up. Rust Player Stats logged it for the first time on 13 September 2026.
Does Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs run smoothly?
60 server fps on average over 48 hours, and never under 54. Up to 106,593 entities sat in the world, buildings and deployables included. The memory ceiling was 4,165 MB. A climbing entity count plus low fps: that is lag, as players experience it.
Which Rust version is Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux: that is the setup at Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs. Same protocol or no entry: your game must match, and Steam keeps it updated for you.
Where is Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs located?
Its NA tag places Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs in North America. Where the machine physically stands is not looked up by Rust Player Stats; it shows only what the server states. 66.51.99.163:28000 is the address.
Server tags
What do the server tags on Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs mean?
gmhardcore (Game mode): The mode is hardcore, harsher rules; mp40 (Max players): Slot count: 40; ts0 (Group limit): You can't form teams; v2635 (Protocol): Game protocol 2635: join only if your game matches that version; cs168909 (Build): The game build here is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's standard layer; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, timed to Facepunch's force wipe; ^h (Hardcore): Fewer helpers and harsher survival: that's Facepunch's hardcore mode; ^z (Modded): The game changes here through plugins or settings, so it's listed under Modded; ^y (Carbon): Carbon provides the plugin framework here; NA (North America): In the server browser it sits under North America are the tags Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs publishes, and the game's server browser reads them. The tags carry more besides: present players, queue length and when the world was made, all displayed at the top of this page.
Which Rust Player Stats lists and filters include Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs?
These Rust Player Stats lists take Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs: Modded Rust servers, live and North America Rust servers. Searching the server list with these filters returns it: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: Hardcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Hardcore ^h, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
Rules and settings
Which map is running on Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs?
Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs runs a game-generated procedural map of size 4,250. Read the map name off the board: Custom Map.
What are the rules and settings on Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs?
Nothing in the name of Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs states a gather rate. It publishes no limit on groups. It plays as hardcore, The hardest mode Facepunch runs. You can fight and raid other players here. Plugins or settings change the game, so the server browser lists it as Modded. It runs plugins: Carbon. Anti-cheat is on: VAC.
Player counts
What is the population on Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs at the moment?
Out of 40 slots, 0 are taken on Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs at this moment. Averaged out across the past week, the count is 0 players.
Where does Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs sit in the rankings?
Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs sits at #15,327 for player hours in the past seven days — #1,502 in North America and inside the top 69% of every ranked server.
Wipe timing
What is the wipe schedule on Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs?
The force wipe is the only wipe for Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs, once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe comes, and that is its next wipe, when every Rust server wipes. 27 days 23 hours ago, its current world was made. Its tags carry a monthly wipe schedule.
What does wipe day look like on Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew 2 players on average. The crowd reached its peak 37 hours after the latest wipe.
How to join
How do I join Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs?
Press F1 in Rust, bring up the console and enter client.connect 66.51.99.163:28000. The Launch Rust button here does the same, opening Rust via Steam and connecting you. You will find the website at https://discord.com/invite/TjqW7Cwed5.
GlossaryServer tags
what each one meansPublished as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^z,^y,^m,^h,NA,gmhardcore,cs168909,ts0
Game
gmhardcore
mp40
ts0
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Difficulty
^h
Mods and access
^z
^y
Region
NA
Players now (cp), the queue (qp) and the wipe time (born) are in the tag string too; they change every few minutes and are shown at the top of the page. Flag meanings are Facepunch's.