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Element card · group Modded · atomic number 3,497, its rank

The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore

Online NA 51.222.245.218:28015 checked 12m ago

teams off monthly wipes moddedoxidehardcore
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Atomic mass · players now 0/ 100 0% full Room to join
7-day average1peak 3
Rank · atomic number#3,497top 16% · #581 in NA
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 1hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Result 01

Players

Method
Every five minutes for the last two hours, from the Steam server list; hourly average and peak over 48 hours; daily average and peak over 90 days. UTC. Dashed lines are its wipes and the force wipes.
Result
AveragePeak
0123418:0003:0012:0022:0007:0016:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Result 02

Server performance

Method
Asked of the server itself, hour by hour and day by day: its frame rate, the entities in its world and the memory it holds.
Result
01020304018:0003:0012:0022:0007:0016:00

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.

Result 03

Rank

Result

daily · 1 is best

RankRank in region
12k4k6k8k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 16% of all ranked servers, top 31% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

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Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 1h. The force wipe · high confidence

wipe-day peak4players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

  1. 7d 1hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
  2. 35d 1hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 4, 3 hours in.

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Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 18:12 UTC FW27d ago 4 – 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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Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Map and rules

What map is in play on The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore?

A procedural map of size 4,250 runs on The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore, generated by the game. On the map name: Procedural.

What settings and rules apply on The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore?

The name of The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore carries no gather rate. The server publishes no limit on group size. hardcore is the game mode, Facepunch's toughest setting. You can fight other players and raid them. In the server browser it sits under Modded: the game is changed by plugins or settings. The plugin count is Oxide. VAC is off, Valve's anti-cheat.

About the server

Which location is The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore based in?

The NA tag is how The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore 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. You will find it at 51.222.245.218:28015.

What Rust version does The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore currently run?

On Linux, The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore is running Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Your game needs to match the protocol to join, and Steam updates it automatically.

How dependable is The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore for staying online?

Right now, The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore is reachable. About 4 hours ago is when it last restarted, based on its uptime. It was online for 166 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, which is 99% uptime. It first appeared to Rust Data Lab on 13 September 2026.

Is The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore known for smooth running?

Server fps averaged 30 over the last 48 hours, with 30 as the lowest. The entity count reached 98,355, including buildings, deployables and all other world items. Up to 5,116 MB of memory was used. Lag, as players feel it, is caused by low fps and an increasing entity count.

Wipe days

What is the wiping pattern on The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore?

Wiping once a month with the force wipe is what The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore does. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is when this server next wipes, along with every other Rust server. Counting back, the current world began 27 days 23 hours ago. Its tags set out a wipe schedule of once a month.

How does The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore look on the day of a wipe?

At their busiest, recent wipes averaged 4 players. The latest wipe's peak fell 3 hours after it began.

Lists and tags

What should you understand from the tags The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore carries?

gmhardcore (Game mode): The rules are hardcore, which is harsher; mp100 (Max players): It has 100 slots; 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): Build number: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust; $r? (Region code): The region field is left blank; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, tied to Facepunch's force wipe; ^h (Hardcore): Fewer helpers and a harsher game: that is Facepunch's hardcore mode; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) powers the plugins; ^z (Modded): Because plugins or settings change the game, it is filed under Modded; modded (Modded): Because plugins or settings change the game, it is filed under Modded; NA (North America): In the browser it sits under North America: that is the tag list The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore publishes, and the game's server browser reads it. Current players, the queue and the world's creation time sit in the tags too, shown at the top of this page.

Which Rust Data Lab filters and lists does The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore appear in?

These themed Rust Data Lab lists carry The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore: Modded Rust servers, measured, Rust servers named for zombies 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 Oxide ^o; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

Player counts

What position does The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore hold among Rust servers?

Seven-day player hours place The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore at #3,497 overall, #581 in North America and in the top 16% of ranked servers.

How many players does The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore have at the moment?

At the moment The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore has 0 of its 100 slots filled. The week's figures average 1 players and top out at 3. The busiest point in the last 48 hours came at 13:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.

Connection

What steps get you onto The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 51.222.245.218:28015. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same job through Steam. You can find its website at https://therustingdead.com.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^h,NA,gmhardcore,cs168909,ts0,^o^z,modded

Game

gmhardcore
Game mode The rules are hardcore, which is harsher.
mp100
Max players It has 100 slots.
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 Build number: 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust.
$r?
Region code The region field is left blank.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Monthly wipes, tied to Facepunch's force wipe.

Difficulty

^h
Hardcore Fewer helpers and a harsher game: that is Facepunch's hardcore mode.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) powers the plugins.
^z
Modded Because plugins or settings change the game, it is filed under Modded.
modded
Modded Because plugins or settings change the game, it is filed under Modded.

Region

NA
North America In the browser it sits 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.