The Dead Zone
Online 157.85.86.90:28015 checked 10m ago
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server 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 3 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 26% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
too few wipes seen yetNot enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 29 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 3 Oct, 12:20 UTC4d ago | 3 | – | 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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What is the wipe schedule on The Dead Zone?
Not enough of The Dead Zone's wipes are on record yet to tell its rhythm. Every Rust server wipes at the monthly force wipe, next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Its current world was made 4 days 14 hours ago.
What does wipe day look like on The Dead Zone?
Its recent wipes drew 3 players at their busiest, on average. On the latest wipe the crowd peaked 29 hours after the wipe.
Players
How busy is The Dead Zone?
Right now The Dead Zone has 0 players on 125 slots. Over the last seven days it averaged 0 players and peaked at 3. In the last 48 hours it was busiest at 21:00 UTC, with 1 players on average.
How does The Dead Zone rank against other Rust servers?
The Dead Zone is #6,120 on player hours over the last seven days, in the top 26% of all ranked servers.
Rules and map
What are the rules and settings on The Dead Zone?
The Dead Zone gives no gather rate in its name. Groups can have up to 8 players, the game's default. Its game mode is survival, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Players can fight and raid each other. It is a community server, listed under Community in the server browser. It calls itself vanilla: the game as Facepunch ships it: no changed rates, kits or rules. Valve's anti-cheat, VAC, is on.
Which map does The Dead Zone run?
The Dead Zone runs a procedural map, generated by the game, of size 5,400 with seed 567367. The same size and seed give the same map, so it can be looked at on RustMaps from this page.
Tags and lists
What do the server tags on The Dead Zone mean?
The Dead Zone publishes these tags, which the game's server browser reads: gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival; mp125 (Max players): 125 slots; ts8 (Group limit): At most 8 per team, the game default; v2634 (Protocol): Game protocol 2634: your game has to be on the same version to join; cs167058 (Build): Game build 167058; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's standard network layer; $r? (Region code): No region code set; ^v (Vanilla): The game as Facepunch ships it: no changed rates, kits or rules. Its players now, its queue and the time its world was made are in the tags too, and are shown at the top of this page.
Which Zongarust lists and filters include The Dead Zone?
The Dead Zone fits these Zongarust lists: Best Rust community servers and Best vanilla Rust servers. On the server list it comes up under these filters: Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.
The server
Where is The Dead Zone located?
The Dead Zone publishes no region. Zongarust shows where a server says it is; it does not look up where the machine stands. Its address is 157.85.86.90:28015.
Is The Dead Zone online, and how reliable is it?
The Dead Zone is online right now. It last restarted about 8 hours ago, going by the uptime it reports. Over the last 4 full days it was up 100% of the time, 96 of 96 hours. Zongarust first saw it on 3 October 2026.
Does The Dead Zone run smoothly?
Over the last 48 hours it ran at 90 server fps on average, never below 74. It carried up to 161,815 entities: buildings, deployables and everything else in the world. It used up to 4,037 MB of memory. Low fps and a climbing entity count are what players feel as lag.
Which version of Rust does The Dead Zone run?
The Dead Zone runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167058 on Linux. Your game has to be on the same protocol to join; Steam updates it for you.
Joining
How do I join The Dead Zone?
Start Rust, press F1 to open the console and enter client.connect 157.85.86.90:28015. Or use Launch Rust and join on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.