The Zen Den
Key statistics
the figures behind the quote- Players now
- 0/ 50 0% full
- Change · 24h
- ▪+0 no reading a day ago
- 7-day average
- 0 peak –
- Rank
- #15,947 top 72% · #1542 in NA
- Rank · 7d ago
- #16,709 ▲762 places up
- Last wipe
- 12d ago weekly schedule
- Next wipe
- 1d 7h Thu 15 Oct, 18:10 UTC
- Group limit
- trio players per team
- Gather rate
- – no rate in the name
- Score
- 0 player hours, last seven days
- Map
- 5000 Custom Map · seed 1337
- First seen
- 13 Sep 2026 no hostname published
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 72% of all ranked servers, top 83% in NA, and #510 of the trio servers (top 84%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
from its schedule tag- usual gap
- 8.5 days between real wipes
- on rhythm
- 0% of its recent wipes
- wipe-day peak
- 1 players, last three wipes
- crowd held
- 0% else halves by day 8
Coming wipes
- 1d 7hThu 15 Oct, 18:10 UTC
- 8d 7hThu 22 Oct, 18:10 UTC
- 15d 7hThu 29 Oct, 18:10 UTC
- 22d 8hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 29d 7hThu 12 Nov, 18:10 UTC
- 36d 7hThu 19 Nov, 18:10 UTC
- 43d 7hThu 26 Nov, 18:10 UTC
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 18:10 UTC FW12d ago | 0 | – | running | 0 |
| Wed 16 Sep, 01:40 UTC28d ago | 1 | halved by day 8 | 15.7 days | 2 |
| Mon 14 Sep, 18:45 UTC29d 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.
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 | Rusticated.com - US Premium Trio | Thursday WipesNA · trio · weekly · 122 on average | 8/150 | ▼−1−11.1% | |
| 2 | Rusticated.com - US Trio | Monday WipesNA · trio · weekly · 81 on average | 44/150 | ▼−54−55.3% | |
| 3 | Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US TrioNA · trio · weekly · 10 on average | 5/300 | ▼−3−40.6% | |
| 4 | RustForNoobs.com | Solo Duo Trio | Weekly | USNA · trio · weekly · 9 on average | 1/150 | ▼−2−60.0% | |
| 5 | RustForNoobs.com | Mondays | Solo Duo Trio | USNA · trio · weekly · 5 on average | 5/150 | ▲+4+275.0% | |
| 6 | US RustLife.net | Solo/Duo/Trio | Fridays | Noob FriendlyNA · trio · weekly · 2 on average | 1/100 | ▼−1−38.9% |
Quick answers
from the figures on this pageServer Rules
What settings and rules are in place on The Zen Den?
The name of The Zen Den carries no gather rate. A maximum of 3 players per group is set through trio. survival is the mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. PvP and raiding are enabled. Modded is its category in the server browser; plugins or settings modify the game. Oxide plugins are in use. The server has VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, switched on.
What is the current map on The Zen Den?
A procedural map of size 5,000 with seed 1337 runs on The Zen Den, created by the game. Because size and seed determine the map, RustMaps offers a view of it from this page. The map in use is Custom Map.
Player Count
Where does The Zen Den sit in the rankings?
On seven-day player hours, The Zen Den sits at #15,947, in the top 72% across ranked servers and #1,542 in North America. In the trio group, it ranks #510.
How many players does The Zen Den have?
Right now, The Zen Den is offline; the last sighting was 17 hours ago. Average players over the last seven days: 0.
Wipe Frequency
What happens on wipe day at The Zen Den?
The average peak across its recent wipes is 1 players. On the latest wipe, 0 hours after the wipe, the crowd peaked. Half the peak was held until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. The crowd fell below half by day 8 when it did not hold.
When does The Zen Den schedule its wipes?
The schedule at The Zen Den cannot be confirmed from the few wipes on record, so the prediction follows its tag. The date of its next wipe is Thursday 15 October at 18:10 UTC. 12 days 16 hours ago the current world was created. The tags give a weekly wipe.
Server Info
Where can The Zen Den be found?
With the NA tag, The Zen Den lists itself in North America. The location shown by Rust Analytics is the one a server states; it does not verify the machine's position. You can reach it at 66.51.99.76:28030.
How is the performance on The Zen Den?
Server fps over the last 48 hours: 45 on average, 30 at the lowest. The entity count reached 153,188, covering buildings, deployables and all else in the world. The memory ceiling reached 10,012 MB. A climbing entity count plus low fps is the lag players report.
What Rust version is The Zen Den running?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494 on Linux is what The Zen Den runs. Your game needs the same protocol to get in; Steam takes care of the update.
How reliable is The Zen Den and is it currently online?
The Zen Den is down. The last time we saw it was 17 hours ago. 11 days 22 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by the uptime it reports. 7 full days have passed with 96% uptime, 162 of 168 hours. 13 September 2026 is when Rust Analytics first saw it.
Tags and Rankings
How should you interpret the tags on The Zen Den?
The game's server browser reads gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust format; mp50 (Max players): Capacity: 50 slots; ts3 (Group limit): Teams take no more than 3; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: matching game versions are required to join; cs166494 (Build): Build 166494; ptrak (Networking): Runs on RakNet, Rust's default network layer; $r? (Region code): The region code is absent; ^w (Weekly): Wipes land every week; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework here is Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Modded listing: the game is changed by plugins or settings; NA (North America): North America is its browser listing, which The Zen Den publishes. The top of this page and the tags both show its players now, its queue and when its world was made.
Where does The Zen Den show up in Rust Analytics lists and filters?
These Rust Analytics lists include The Zen Den: Modded Rust servers, Trio Rust servers and North America Rust servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Server tag: Weekly ^w, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Trio; Wipe schedule: Weekly; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Connection
How can I connect to The Zen Den?
The console route: start Rust, press F1, enter client.connect 66.51.99.76:28030. The page's Launch Rust button opens Rust through Steam and connects you instead.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^w,NA,gmrust,cs166494,ts3,^o^z
Game
gmrust
mp50
ts3
v2634
cs166494
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^w
Mods and access
^o
^z
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.