Online NA 51.222.245.218:28015 checked 11m ago
The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore
By the numbersMatch stats
against its 100 slotsThe story of the match
Players, performance and rank, hour by hour and day by day.
CrowdPlayers
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
FitnessServer 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.
FormRank
daily · 1 is bestTop 16% of all ranked servers, top 31% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
FixturesWipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipeThursday 5 November, 19:00 UTCin 7d 2h The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 7d 2hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 35d 2hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 4, 3 hours in.
ResultsWipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 18:12 UTC FW27d 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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
About the server
Is The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore online, and how reliable is it?
The lights are on at The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore: online as you read this. The reported uptime puts the last restart at roughly 3 hours ago. The last 7 full days put it at 166 of 168 hours up, 99% uptime. Rust Player Stats logged it for the first time on 13 September 2026.
Does The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore run smoothly?
The last 48 hours average out at 30 server fps; it never dropped below 30. Its entity count reached 98,355: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Memory use reached 5,116 MB. A climbing entity count plus low fps: that is lag, as players experience it.
Which Rust version is The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux: that is the setup at The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore. Same protocol or no entry: your game must match, and Steam keeps it updated for you.
Where is The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore located?
Its NA tag places The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore in North America. Where the machine physically stands is not looked up by Rust Player Stats; it shows only what the server states. 51.222.245.218:28015 is the address.
Tags
What do the server tags on The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore mean?
Tags published by The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore and picked up by the in-game browser: gmhardcore (Game mode): A harsher ruleset: hardcore; mp100 (Max players): The cap is 100 slots; ts0 (Group limit): Team play is disabled; v2635 (Protocol): Your game must be on protocol 2635 to get in; cs168909 (Build): It runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's standard layer; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): Facepunch's force wipe is the monthly wipe here; ^h (Hardcore): Fewer helpers and harsher survival: that's Facepunch's hardcore mode; ^o (Oxide): It uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): Modded is its category: plugins or settings change how it plays; modded (Modded): Modded is its category: plugins or settings change how it plays; NA (North America): In the server browser it sits under North America. At the top of this page the tags give you its players right now, its queue and the date its world was created.
Which Rust Player Stats lists and filters include The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore?
You will find The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore on the following Rust Player Stats lists: Modded Rust servers, live, Rust servers with zombies and North America Rust servers. Searching the server list with these filters returns it: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: Hardcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Hardcore ^h, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
Map and rules
Which map is running on The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore?
Map size is 4,250 on the procedural map The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore runs, generated by the game. Read the map name off the board: Procedural.
What are the rules and settings on The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore?
Nothing in the name of The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore states a gather rate. No group limit is published. The toughest mode from Facepunch: that is the hardcore game mode. You can fight and raid other players here. The server browser files it under Modded: plugins or settings change the game. It runs plugins: Oxide. Anti-cheat is off: VAC.
Live counts
What is the population on The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore at the moment?
The board shows The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore at 0 players, with 100 slots in total. The seven-day average sits at 1 players; the peak reached 3. Peak traffic in the last 48 hours landed at 13:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.
Where does The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore sit in the rankings?
Over the last seven days The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore has logged enough player hours for #3,495, which puts it in the top 16% of ranked servers and at #582 in North America.
Wipe timing
What is the wipe schedule on The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore?
The force wipe is the only wipe for The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore, once a month. When every Rust server wipes, on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, its next wipe is the force wipe. The world it runs now was made 27 days 22 hours ago. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
What does wipe day look like on The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore?
4 players on average is what its recent wipes drew at their busiest. The crowd reached its peak 3 hours after the latest wipe.
Joining the server
How do I join The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore?
Press F1 in Rust, bring up the console and enter client.connect 51.222.245.218:28015. The Launch Rust button here does the same, opening Rust via Steam and connecting you. https://therustingdead.com is where its website lives.
GlossaryServer tags
what each one meansPublished as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^h,NA,gmhardcore,cs168909,ts0,^o^z,modded
Game
gmhardcore
mp100
ts0
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Difficulty
^h
Mods and access
^o
^z
modded
Region
NA
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.