Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 35%.
Power level
Players on it, from the Steam server list.
Every five minutes.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Tale of the tape
Against its closest rival: the most similar server we track.
Wipe receipt
66.51.99.163:28000
THANK YOU · COME AGAIN NEXT WIPE
The map
Under the hood
Asked of the server directly. Low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
The ranking
Up 7735 places on last week. Top 35% of all ranked servers, top 65% in NA. Daily; 1 is best.
In its own words
RUSTY GOATS | HARDCORE | NO TECH TREE | BETTER NPCS No map. No team UI. No tech tree. You're on your own out here. WHY PLAY HERE - Hardcore mode - no map, no compass UI, navigate by landmark - No team UI, no safe zones - nowhere to hide, nobody to blame but you - Tech tree disabled - every blueprint has to be earned in the field - Better NPCs - smarter, tougher, they shoot back - Locked crates hack 2x faster, fewer minis in the sky - Ship Vendor - buy a ready-to-sail ship or build your own to sell Map and blueprints wipe first Thursday of the month, 2PM ET. Everyone starts from nothing. That's the point. RULES Don't be a dick. No cheating/scripting/exploits. No racism or harassment. English in global chat. !bangs for commands Join our Discord for support & updates: rustygoats.net
Spec sheet
- Address
- 66.51.99.163:28000
- Region
- NA
- Max players
- 40
- Group limit
- teams off
- Wipe schedule
- monthly
- Last wipe
- 1 Oct 2026, 17:47 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 13 Sep 2026
Other contenders
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Map and rules
What are Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs's rules and configuration?
No gather rate appears in the name of Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs. There is no published group limit. It plays as hardcore, Facepunch's most difficult mode. You can fight and raid other players. The server browser lists it as Modded: plugins or settings alter the game. Plugins running: Carbon. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What's the map on Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs?
Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs uses a procedural map of 4,250 that the game generates. Custom Map is the map name.
Server tags
What do Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs's tags signify?
These tags come from Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs and go straight into the game's server browser: gmhardcore (Game mode): The hardcore ruleset: tougher; mp40 (Max players): 40 players fit in; ts0 (Group limit): No teams on this server; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: match it or you cannot join; cs167231 (Build): Build 167231; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which the game uses as standard; $r? (Region code): No region code on record; ^m (Monthly): The calendar is monthly: one wipe with the force wipe; ^h (Hardcore): Hardcore mode from Facepunch: less help, tougher survival; ^z (Modded): It is Modded: plugins or settings make the difference; ^y (Carbon): Plugin framework: Carbon; NA (North America): Browser listing: North America. From the tags, this page also pulls its live player count, its queue and its world's creation time, and puts them at the top.
Which Boongarust filters show Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs?
The Boongarust lists that take Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs are: Top modded Rust servers and North America Rust servers. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: Hardcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Hardcore ^h, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Server info
How smooth is Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs?
The 48-hour average was 59 server fps; the floor was 32. At its peak, it held 105,570 entities, including buildings and deployables. At its highest, memory consumption was 3,922 MB. What players call lag is low fps plus a rising entity count.
What's the physical location of Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs?
The NA tag is what Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs uses to list itself in North America. What you see on Boongarust is where a server says it is, not where the machine is found to stand. You can reach it at 66.51.99.163:28000.
How often is Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs online?
Online: Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs, at this moment. The uptime it reports suggests a restart around 6 hours ago. 166 hours out of 168 across the last 7 full days. 99% uptime. It entered Boongarust's records on 13 September 2026.
What Rust version is Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs using?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167231 on Linux: that is Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs. You must match the protocol to join; Steam updates it automatically.
Wipe times
Wipe day at Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs: what's it like?
Across recent wipes, the average peak was 2 players. 37 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.
Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs wipes on what schedule?
Once a month: Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs wipes at the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is next, and every Rust server wipes with it. 7 days 5 hours ago this server built its current world. Look at its tags: monthly wipe schedule.
Player counts
Where does Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs sit in the rankings?
Ranked #8,162 on the week's player hours, Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs sits in the top 35% overall and #1,238 in North America.
How many players are on Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs?
0 players are on Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs at the moment, out of 40 slots. It averaged 0 players over the last seven days and peaked at 2.
How to join
What's the process to join Rusty Goats | Hardcore | No Tech Tree | Better NPCs?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 66.51.99.163:28000. You can also use Launch Rust on this page to open Rust via Steam and connect. Find it at https://discord.com/invite/TjqW7Cwed5.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^z,^y,^m,^h,NA,gmhardcore,cs167231,ts0.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.