When Is Rust Force Wipe
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RTF

monthly wipes
Players now 0/ 50 0% full
7-day average 1 peak 3
Rank #3,984 top 18% · #714 in NA
Last wipe 9d ago monthly schedule
Next wipe 22d 3h Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW

Players

AveragePeak
00.511.5216:0001:0010:0020:0005:0014:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

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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
RankRank in region
12.5k5k7.5k10k20 Sep25 Sep30 Sep4 Oct9 Oct14 Oct

Top 18% of all ranked servers, top 39% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 22d 3h. The force wipe · high confidence

Usual gap 1.5 days between real wipes
On rhythm 0% of its recent wipes
Wipe-day peak 3 players, last three wipes
Crowd held 100% of its cycles kept half the crowd

Coming wipes

22d 3hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Sun 4 OctSun 4 OctThu 1 Oct
01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 4, 25 hours in.

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sun 4 Oct, 22:02 UTC9d ago 4 – running 1
Sun 4 Oct, 15:44 UTC10d ago 4 – 0.3 days 0
Thu 1 Oct, 21:49 UTC FW12d 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

the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes
Rusty Moose |US Monthly|NA · groups of 12+ · monthly · 334 on average 192/ 225
[US East] Facepunch Premium 1NA · groups of 8+ · monthly · 217 on average 108/ 400
Rustopia.gg - US LargeNA · groups of 16+ · monthly · 208 on average 138/ 200
Rusty Moose |US Small|NA · groups of 8+ · monthly · 196 on average 72/ 200
Rustoria.co - US Long PremiumNA · groups of 14+ · monthly · 183 on average 105/ 200
Rustafied.com - US Long - LargeNA · groups of 16+ · monthly · 150 on average 86/ 100

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Rules and settings

What are the rules and settings on RTF?

No gather rate appears in the name of RTF. The game's default group cap of 8 players applies. survival is the game mode, the normal game, with gather, build and raid. Raiding and player combat are enabled. Under Community in the server browser, it is a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.

What map is used on RTF?

RTF uses a procedural map of size 4,500 with seed 2009818051, generated by the game. The same size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.

Population

How populated is RTF?

On RTF, 0 of 50 slots are filled right now. Averaging 1 players over seven days, it peaked at 3. The highest average over the last 48 hours occurred at 20:00 UTC, with 2 players.

What is RTF's ranking among Rust servers?

For player hours in the last seven days, RTF ranks #3,984 overall, #714 in North America, and is in the top 18% of all ranked servers.

Server tags

What are the tags on RTF and what do they mean?

The server browser reads gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival gameplay; mp50 (Max players): The slot count is 50; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, which is the default for Rust; v2634 (Protocol): Joining requires the same protocol version, 2634; cs166652 (Build): It runs on game build 166652; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is standard for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): Facepunch's force wipe marks its monthly wipe; NA (North America): The server browser lists it under North America from the tags RTF publishes. The top of this page also shows its current players, queue, and world creation time, all from the tags.

Where does RTF appear in When Is Rust Force Wipe lists and filters?

These themed lists on When Is Rust Force Wipe feature RTF: Best Rust community servers and Rust servers in North America. Its filters on the server list are 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; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

Server details

Where can RTF be found?

In North America, RTF lists itself with the NA tag. When Is Rust Force Wipe displays the location a server reports, not the physical location of the machine. Connect using 66.51.98.51:28025.

Is the performance on RTF good?

The average server fps over the last 48 hours was 42, with a low of 5. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world came to a peak of 123,540 entities. Memory use peaked at 3,546 MB. When fps is low and entities climb, players feel it as lag.

What is the uptime and reliability of RTF?

You can connect to RTF at this moment. Its reported uptime shows a restart roughly 17 hours ago. It was up 168 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, 100% of the time. It was first seen by When Is Rust Force Wipe on 13 September 2026.

Which Rust version is used on RTF?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652 on Linux is what RTF runs. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam updates it for you.

Wipe days

How often does RTF wipe, and when?

Once a month, RTF wipes with the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. It has been running its current world since 9 days 14 hours ago. The tags carry a monthly wipe schedule.

What happens on wipe day for RTF?

Its recent wipes averaged 3 players at peak. The peak of the crowd on the latest wipe came 25 hours after the wipe. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 100% of its recent wipes.

Connect

What is the process to join RTF?

Enter client.connect 66.51.98.51:28025 after pressing F1 to open the console in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,NA,gmrust,cs166652,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Standard survival gameplay.
mp50
Max players The slot count is 50.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team, which is the default for Rust.
v2634
Protocol Joining requires the same protocol version, 2634.
cs166652
Build It runs on game build 166652.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is standard for the game.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Facepunch's force wipe marks its monthly wipe.

Region

NA
North America The server browser lists it under North America.

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.