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The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore

Online NA 51.222.245.218:28015 checked 12m ago

teams off monthly wipes moddedoxidehardcore

Stats

Players
0/ 100
0% full
Slots
100open
100 max players
7-day avg
1
7-day average · peak 3
FPS
30
server frames a second, the latest hour; the bar fills at 60
Uptime
10h 00m
since its last restart; the bar fills at a day
Rank
#3,440
top 15% · #570 in NA
Last wipe · new game
28d ago
monthly schedule
Next wipe · continue?
6d 19h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW

Players

AveragePeak
0123400:0009:0019:0004:0013:0022:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

01020304000:0009:0019:0004:0013:0022:00

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.

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
12k4k6k8k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 15% of all ranked servers, top 31% 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 6d 19h. The force wipe · high confidence

4
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

6d 19h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
34d 19h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

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.

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 18:12 UTC FW28d 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

Rules and settings

Which map is loaded on The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore?

Size 4,250, procedural, generated by the game, on The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore. Under map name it shows Procedural.

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

The name of The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore carries no gather rate. No group limit is published. Facepunch at its hardest: that is hardcore. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. Under Modded in the server browser, because plugins or settings modify play. It runs plugins: Oxide. VAC is off, Valve's anti-cheat.

Wipe days

What is the wipe schedule on The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore?

The force wipe is the only wipe The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore takes, once a month. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, the same date every Rust server wipes. The world it runs now dates from 28 days 5 hours. Monthly wipes are what the tags promise.

What happens on The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore when wipe day arrives?

Its recent wipes drew an average of 4 players at peak. On the latest wipe, 3 hours in, the crowd hit its peak.

Tags

What do the server tags on The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore mean?

The server browser reads these tags from The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore: gmhardcore (Game mode): The ruleset is hardcore, a harsher one; mp100 (Max players): The server has 100 slots; ts0 (Group limit): Teams are disabled; v2635 (Protocol): Protocol 2635 is required; a different version cannot connect; cs168909 (Build): It runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the game's standard network layer, and it is what runs here; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): It wipes monthly, alongside the force wipe from Facepunch; ^h (Hardcore): Hardcore rules from Facepunch: fewer aids, tougher survival; ^o (Oxide): Plugins run through Oxide (uMod) on this server; ^z (Modded): Modded listing: settings or plugins change how it plays; modded (Modded): Modded listing: settings or plugins change how it plays; NA (North America): North America is the region it appears under in the server browser. The top of this page also shows the live player count, the queue and when the world was made, all from the tags.

Which Rust Leaderboard lists and filters include The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore?

Best modded Rust servers, Rust zombie servers, ranked live and Best US Rust servers are the Rust Leaderboard lists that include The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore. You can find it through these server list filters: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: Hardcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Hardcore ^h, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

Server details

Which Rust version is The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore running?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is the version The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore runs. The protocol has to match on both sides for a join; Steam keeps yours updated.

Is The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore up right now, and how steady is it?

Right now the lights are on at The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore. About 10 hours ago is when it last restarted, judged by the uptime it reports. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days: 166 of 168 hours on. Rust Leaderboard logged it for the first time on 13 September 2026.

How well does The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore perform?

Averaged over the last 48 hours, server fps was 30, with a low of 30. Buildings, deployables and all the rest of the world took the entity count as high as 98,355. It drew up to 5,116 MB of memory at its highest. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count keeps climbing.

Where in the world is The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore hosted?

The NA tag on The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore puts it in North America. Rust Leaderboard shows the location a server claims and does not look up the machine's real position. You will find it at 51.222.245.218:28015.

Player count

Where does The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore sit in the rankings?

The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore takes #3,440 for the week's player hours and #570 in North America, with a spot in the top 15% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore right now?

0 players fill 100 slots on The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore right now. 3 was the high point over seven days, with 1 players on average. The busiest point in the last 48 hours was 13:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.

How to join

How do I join The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore?

In the Rust console (F1) enter client.connect 51.222.245.218:28015. Launch Rust from this page instead and it opens the game through Steam and joins for you. https://therustingdead.com is its website.

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 ruleset is hardcore, a harsher one.
mp100
Max players The server has 100 slots.
ts0
Group limit Teams are disabled.
v2635
Protocol Protocol 2635 is required; a different version cannot connect.
cs168909
Build It runs game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the game's standard network layer, and it is what runs here.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly It wipes monthly, alongside the force wipe from Facepunch.

Difficulty

^h
Hardcore Hardcore rules from Facepunch: fewer aids, tougher survival.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Plugins run through Oxide (uMod) on this server.
^z
Modded Modded listing: settings or plugins change how it plays.
modded
Modded Modded listing: settings or plugins change how it plays.

Region

NA
North America North America is the region it appears under in the server browser.

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.