The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore
Online NA 51.222.245.218:28015 checked 2m 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 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 11% of all ranked servers, top 22% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipe Thursday 3 December, 19:00 UTC, in 20d 11h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 4, 18 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 5 Nov, 19:11 UTC FW7d ago | 4 | – | running | 0 |
| Thu 1 Oct, 18:12 UTC FW42d ago | 4 | halved by day 29 | 35 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.
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What is the wipe schedule on The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore?
The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore wipes once a month, with the force wipe. Its next wipe is the force wipe on Thursday 3 December at 19:00 UTC, when every Rust server wipes. Its current world was made 7 days 11 hours ago. It publishes a monthly wipe schedule in its tags.
What does wipe day look like on The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore?
Its recent wipes drew 4 players at their busiest, on average. On the latest wipe the crowd peaked 18 hours after the wipe. In 0% of its recent wipes the crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe. When it didn't, it fell below half by day 29.
Players
How busy is The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore?
Right now The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore has 1 players on 100 slots. Over the last seven days it averaged 2 players and peaked at 8. In the last 48 hours it was busiest at 02:00 UTC, with 6 players on average.
How does The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore rank against other Rust servers?
The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore is #2,365 on player hours over the last seven days, in the top 11% of all ranked servers and #404 in North America.
Rules and map
What are the rules and settings on The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore?
The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore gives no gather rate in its name. It publishes no group limit. Its game mode is hardcore, Facepunch's hardest mode. Players can fight and raid each other. It is listed under Modded in the server browser: plugins or settings change the game. It runs Oxide plugins. Valve's anti-cheat, VAC, is off.
Which map does The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore run?
The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore runs a procedural map, generated by the game, of size 4,250. Its map name reads: Procedural.
Tags and lists
What do the server tags on The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore mean?
The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore publishes these tags, which the game's server browser reads: gmhardcore (Game mode): Hardcore: a harsher ruleset; mp100 (Max players): 100 slots; ts0 (Group limit): Teams are switched off; v2636 (Protocol): Game protocol 2636: your game has to be on the same version to join; cs170545 (Build): Game build 170545; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's standard network layer; $r? (Region code): No region code set; ^m (Monthly): Wipes once a month, with Facepunch's force wipe; ^h (Hardcore): Facepunch's hardcore mode: fewer helpers, harsher survival; ^o (Oxide): Runs Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework; ^z (Modded): Listed under Modded: plugins or settings change the game; modded (Modded): Listed under Modded: plugins or settings change the game; NA (North America): Listed under North America in the server browser. 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 Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore?
The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore fits these Zongarust lists: Best modded Rust servers, Best Rust zombie servers and Best US Rust servers. On the server list it comes up under these filters: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: Hardcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Hardcore ^h, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
The server
Where is The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore located?
The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore lists itself in North America with its NA tag. Zongarust shows where a server says it is; it does not look up where the machine stands. Its address is 51.222.245.218:28015.
Is The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore online, and how reliable is it?
The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore is online right now. It last restarted about 17 hours ago, going by the uptime it reports. Over the last 7 full days it was up 97% of the time, 163 of 168 hours. Zongarust first saw it on 13 September 2026.
Does The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore run smoothly?
Over the last 48 hours it ran at 30 server fps on average, never below 30. It carried up to 100,000 entities: buildings, deployables and everything else in the world. It used up to 4,278 MB of memory. Low fps and a climbing entity count are what players feel as lag.
Which version of Rust does The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore run?
The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore runs Rust network protocol 2636 and build 170545 on Linux. Your game has to be on the same protocol to join; Steam updates it for you.
Joining
How do I join The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore?
Start Rust, press F1 to open the console and enter client.connect 51.222.245.218:28015. Or use Launch Rust and join on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you. Its website is https://therustingdead.com.