The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore
NA 51.222.245.218:28015 checked 8m 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 15% of all ranked servers, top 32% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 22d 1h. 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, 3 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 18:12 UTC FW12d 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
Quick answers
Map and rules
What is the setup on The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore when it comes to rules and settings?
There is no gather rate in the name The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore. You will not find a published group limit. hardcore is its mode, Facepunch's most punishing mode. You can fight and raid other players here. The server browser lists it under Modded: the game is changed by plugins or settings. The plugins it runs number Oxide. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched off.
What is the map on The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore?
The game generates the procedural map of size 4,250 that The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore runs. The name of its map: Procedural.
Server population
How full is The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore?
Right now, 1 players are on The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore, which has 100 slots. The seven-day average is 1 players, with a peak of 3. The highest average over the last 48 hours came at 08:00 UTC, with 3 players.
What is The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore's ranking?
In North America, The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore is #589, and globally it is #3,318 for player hours over the last seven days, within the top 15% of all ranked servers.
Server tags
What do The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore's tags indicate?
What the game's server browser gets from The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore is this tag list: gmhardcore (Game mode): The hardcore mode, with harsher rules; mp100 (Max players): The server has 100 slots; ts0 (Group limit): The team system is turned off; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs167781 (Build): It runs build 167781; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is standard; $r? (Region code): There's no region code here; ^m (Monthly): The server wipes monthly, in line with Facepunch's force wipe; ^h (Hardcore): Hardcore mode from Facepunch: fewer helps and a harsher world; ^o (Oxide): This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): Modded category: the game is altered by plugins or settings; modded (Modded): Modded category: the game is altered by plugins or settings; NA (North America): The server browser puts it in North America. The tags carry its players now, its queue and the time its world was made as well, and the top of this page displays them.
Where does The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore appear in Rust Zerg Life lists?
These Rust Zerg Life lists include The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore: Modded Rust servers for clans and zergs, Rust zombie servers and North American Rust servers. Under these filters it shows on the server list: 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.
Server info
Is The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore currently online and stable?
The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore is up and running as you read this. It reports an uptime that puts the last restart at roughly 4 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time across the last 7 full days: 168 of 168 hours. Rust Zerg Life has been tracking it since 13 September 2026.
What is the performance like on The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore?
It averaged 30 server fps over the last 48 hours, and the lowest it got was 30. It reached a maximum of 96,227 entities, covering buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. The maximum memory it used was 5,425 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Which Rust build does The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore use?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 is what The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore runs, on Linux. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol, which Steam updates automatically.
Where can you find The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore?
The NA tag is what The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore uses to list itself in North America. The location shown by Rust Zerg Life is what a server says; it does not check where the machine stands. Connect to it at 51.222.245.218:28015.
Wipe cycle
What can you expect on wipe day on The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore?
Across its recent wipes, the busiest times averaged 4 players. 3 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked.
How often does The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore wipe, and on what days?
Its only wipe is the monthly force wipe for The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore. Its next wipe falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC with the force wipe, which every Rust server takes. The world it is running now dates from 12 days 23 hours ago. Its tags publish a wipe schedule of once a month.
How to join
What is the process to join The Rusting Dead | Zombies | Hardcore?
Enter client.connect 51.222.245.218:28015 in the F1 console. Another way: use Launch Rust on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you. You can find its website at https://therustingdead.com.
Server tags
Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,^h,NA,gmhardcore,cs167781,ts0,^o^z,modded
Game
gmhardcore
mp100
ts0
v2634
cs167781
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.