The Dead Zone
Key statistics
the figures behind the quote- Players now
- 0/ 125 0% full
- Change · 24h
- ▪+0 no reading a day ago
- 7-day average
- 0 peak 2
- Rank
- #6,345 top 28%
- Rank · 7d ago
- #6,108 ▼237 places down
- Last wipe
- 10d ago no schedule published
- Next wipe
- – too few wipes seen yet
- Group limit
- 8 8, the default
- Gather rate
- – no rate in the name
- Score
- 25 player hours, last seven days
- Map
- 5400 Procedural Map · seed 567367
- First seen
- 3 Oct 2026 no hostname published
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC. Busiest hour of the two days: 1 players.
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 3 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 28% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
too few wipes seen yet- wipe-day peak
- 3 players, last three wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 29 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 3 Oct, 12:20 UTC10d ago | 3 | – | 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| # | Server | Last | Chg 24h | Players over the last 24 hours24h |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rustoria.co - EU East LongEU · groups of 12+ · monthly · 409 on average | 186/225 | ▲+14+8.0% | |
| 2 | Rusty Moose |EU Monthly|EU · groups of 12+ · monthly · 359 on average | 129/200 | ▲+27+26.7% | |
| 3 | Rusty Moose |US Monthly|NA · groups of 12+ · monthly · 341 on average | 406/425 | ▲+9+2.3% | |
| 4 | Rustoria.co - EU LongEU · groups of 14+ · monthly · 336 on average | 145/200 | ▲+54+60.1% | |
| 5 | Rustoria.co - EU MainEU · groups of 16+ · weekly · 299 on average | 28/250 | ▲+2+8.4% | |
| 6 | Rustafied.com - EU Long - LargeEU · groups of 16+ · monthly · 282 on average | 128/175 | ▲+41+47.3% |
Quick answers
from the figures on this pageRules & Settings
What settings and rules are in place on The Dead Zone?
The name of The Dead Zone carries no gather rate. Groups can contain a maximum of 8 players, the default for the game. It runs survival, gather, build and raid in the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. You will find it under Community in the server browser: it is a community server. It uses the term vanilla for itself: rust as Facepunch ships it: rates, kits and rules unchanged. VAC is active.
Which map is played on The Dead Zone?
A procedural map of size 5,400 with seed 567367 runs on The Dead Zone, created by the game. The map is reproducible from its size and seed; RustMaps shows it from this page.
Player Count
Where does The Dead Zone sit in the rankings?
In the top 28% of all ranked servers, The Dead Zone is #6,345 on player hours over the last seven days.
How many players does The Dead Zone have?
On The Dead Zone, 0 players are in now, out of 125 slots. Average players over seven days: 0; peak: 2. At 21:00 UTC in the last 48 hours, it averaged 1 players, the busiest hour.
Wipe Schedule
What happens on wipe day at The Dead Zone?
An average of 3 players marked the busiest point of its recent wipes. 29 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak.
How often does The Dead Zone wipe?
There are too few wipes on record for The Dead Zone to reveal its rhythm. At the monthly force wipe, every Rust server wipes. That happens next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. This world has been running for 10 days 9 hours.
Server Details
What is the location of The Dead Zone?
For The Dead Zone, no region is published. The location shown by Rust Analytics is the one a server states; it does not verify the machine's position. 157.85.86.90:28015 is its address.
How is the performance on The Dead Zone?
Average server fps for the last 48 hours is 92; the floor was 70. At its peak it held 162,209 entities: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Up to 6,028 MB of memory was used. Low fps and growing entities are the source of felt lag.
The Dead Zone runs which version of Rust?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398 on Linux is what The Dead Zone runs. The protocol has to match for you to join, and Steam applies that update.
How reliable is The Dead Zone and is it currently online?
Online at this moment: The Dead Zone. 3 days 11 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by the uptime it reports. 100% is its uptime for the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours. 3 October 2026 is when Rust Analytics first saw it.
Server Tags
How should you interpret the tags on The Dead Zone?
The game's server browser reads gmrust (Game mode): Rust's standard survival mode; mp125 (Max players): Slot count: 125; ts8 (Group limit): Team size stays at the game default of 8; v2634 (Protocol): Your game must run protocol 2634 to connect; cs167398 (Build): Build 167398; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the network layer the game ships with; $r? (Region code): The region code is absent; ^v (Vanilla): Rust as Facepunch ships it: rates, kits and rules unchanged, which The Dead Zone publishes. The top of this page and the tags both show its players now, its queue and when its world was made.
Where does The Dead Zone show up in Rust Analytics lists and filters?
These Rust Analytics lists include The Dead Zone: Rust community servers and Vanilla Rust servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Joining the Server
What is the process to join The Dead Zone?
Type client.connect 157.85.86.90:28015 after pressing F1 in Rust to open the console. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished as mp125,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^v,gmrust,cs167398,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp125
ts8
v2634
cs167398
ptrak
$r?
Difficulty
^v
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.