LiveLive coverage · NA
The count
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Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
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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.
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Top 16% of all ranked servers, top 31% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Coming up · wipe schedule
force wipes only
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 6d 14h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 4, 3 hours in.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 18:12 UTC FW
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.
Recent wipes on this server averaged a peak of 4 players at their busiest. Peak population on the latest wipe came 3 hours after it.
The monthly force wipe is the only wipe The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore takes. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. The world you are playing on was built 28 days 10 hours. Its tags give wipes as monthly.
On Rust Live Stats, The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore is listed under Modded Rust servers live now, Rust zombie servers, live now and North America Rust servers, live. You will find it on the server list under Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: Hardcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Hardcore ^h, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
These are the tags The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore makes public: gmhardcore (Game mode): Hardcore, the harsher ruleset, applies here; mp100 (Max players): The slot count is 100; ts0 (Group limit): Team play is disabled; v2635 (Protocol): You need protocol 2635 on your game to get in; cs168909 (Build): Build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's usual network layer, carries this server; $r? (Region code): Region code: none set; ^m (Monthly): A single monthly wipe, set by Facepunch's force wipe; ^h (Hardcore): Hardcore mode: Facepunch's harsher survival, with fewer helpers; ^o (Oxide): Plugin framework: Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): The game changes here through plugins or settings, so it is Modded; modded (Modded): The game changes here through plugins or settings, so it is Modded; NA (North America): In the server browser it sits under North America. Also in the tags: players on now, the queue, and when the world was made. You will find them at the top of this page.
0 of The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore's 100 slots are filled right now. The seven-day average is 1 players, with a peak of 3. The busiest hour in the past 48 was 13:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.
The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore is #572 in North America on the past week's player hours, and #3,462 overall in the top 16% of ranked servers.
Nothing in the name of The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore states a gather rate. Group limits are not published. It runs hardcore, The hardest mode Facepunch makes. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. The server browser files it under Modded: plugins or settings alter the game. Oxide plugins are in use. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is off.
A procedural map of 4,250, generated by the game, runs on The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore. Map name, as listed: Procedural.
By its own NA tag, The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore sits in North America. A server's stated location is what Rust Live Stats shows; the machine's actual position is not looked up. You can reach it at 51.222.245.218:28015.
It never went below 30 server fps in the last 48 hours, averaging 30. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to a maximum of 98,355 entities. Memory use peaked at 5,116 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.
The setup on The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 with Linux. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore is up and running at this moment. About 15 hours ago is when it last restarted, according to its uptime. 166 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 99% uptime. On 13 September 2026, Rust Live Stats saw it for the first time.
Use Launch Rust and join on this page to open Rust through Steam and connect, or start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 51.222.245.218:28015. The server's website: https://therustingdead.com.