The Zen Den
Online NA 66.51.99.76:28030 checked 13m 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 41% of all ranked servers, top 66% in NA, and #424 of the trio servers (top 70%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
from its schedule tagNext wipe Wednesday 30 September, 01:40 UTC, in 1d 2h. Its weekly schedule tag · low confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 0 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 16 Sep, 01:40 UTC12d ago | 1 | – | running | 2 |
| Mon 14 Sep, 18:45 UTC14d ago | 2 | – | 1.3 days | 1 |
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 Zen Den?
Too few of The Zen Den's wipes are on record to confirm its schedule, so the prediction follows its tag. Its next wipe is due on Wednesday 30 September at 01:40 UTC. Its current world was made 12 days 21 hours ago. It publishes a weekly wipe schedule in its tags.
What does wipe day look like on The Zen Den?
Its recent wipes drew 2 players at their busiest, on average. On the latest wipe the crowd peaked 0 hours after the wipe.
Players
How busy is The Zen Den?
Right now The Zen Den has 0 players on 50 slots. Over the last seven days it averaged 0 players and peaked at 1. In the last 48 hours it was busiest at 03:00 UTC, with 0 players on average.
How does The Zen Den rank against other Rust servers?
The Zen Den is #9,327 on player hours over the last seven days, in the top 41% of all ranked servers and #1,281 in North America. Among trio servers it is #424.
Rules and map
What are the rules and settings on The Zen Den?
The Zen Den gives no gather rate in its name. Groups are limited to 3 players (trio). Its game mode is survival, the standard game: gather, build, raid. 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 on.
Which map does The Zen Den run?
The Zen Den runs a procedural map, generated by the game, of size 5,000 with seed 1337. The same size and seed give the same map, so it can be looked at on RustMaps from this page. Its map name reads: Custom Map.
Tags and lists
What do the server tags on The Zen Den mean?
The Zen Den publishes these tags, which the game's server browser reads: gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival; mp50 (Max players): 50 slots; ts3 (Group limit): At most 3 per team; v2633 (Protocol): Game protocol 2633: your game has to be on the same version to join; cs164530 (Build): Game build 164530; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's standard network layer; $r? (Region code): No region code set; ^w (Weekly): Wipes every week; ^o (Oxide): Runs Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework; ^z (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 Zen Den?
The Zen Den fits these Zongarust lists: Best modded Rust servers, Best trio Rust servers and Best US Rust servers. On the server list it comes up under these filters: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Server tag: Weekly ^w, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Trio; Wipe schedule: Weekly; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
The server
Where is The Zen Den located?
The Zen Den 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 66.51.99.76:28030.
Is The Zen Den online, and how reliable is it?
The Zen Den is online right now. It last restarted about 8 days 22 hours ago, going by the uptime it reports. Over the last 7 full days it was up 100% of the time, 168 of 168 hours. Zongarust first saw it on 13 September 2026.
Does The Zen Den run smoothly?
Over the last 48 hours it ran at 51 server fps on average, never below 42. It carried up to 154,164 entities: buildings, deployables and everything else in the world. It used up to 10,251 MB of memory. Low fps and a climbing entity count are what players feel as lag.
Which version of Rust does The Zen Den run?
The Zen Den runs Rust network protocol 2633 and build 164530 on Linux. Your game has to be on the same protocol to join; Steam updates it for you.
Joining
How do I join The Zen Den?
Start Rust, press F1 to open the console and enter client.connect 66.51.99.76:28030. Or use Launch Rust and join on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.