The Dead Zone
Online 157.85.86.90:28015 checked 9m ago
Li2Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Li3Server 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.
Li4Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 31% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Bx1Wipe schedule
too few wipes seen yetNot enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
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.
Bx2Wipes
newest first · each peak a flare-up, on one √ span to its biggest| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 3 Oct, 12:20 UTC24d 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.
Bx6Similar servers
the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipesLogQuick answers
from the figures on this pageWipe schedule
What does wipe day look like on The Dead Zone?
At their busiest, its recent wipes averaged 3 players. 29 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked.
What is the wipe schedule on The Dead Zone?
The record of The Dead Zone's wipes is not yet long enough to show a rhythm. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the next monthly force wipe, when every Rust server wipes. 24 days 5 hours ago the server made the world it is on now.
Population
How busy is The Dead Zone?
The Dead Zone currently has 1 of its 125 slots filled. A seven-day average of 0 players, with a peak of 2.
How does The Dead Zone rank against other Rust servers?
Player hours over seven days put The Dead Zone at #6,777, in the top 31% of ranked servers.
Rules and settings
Which map does The Dead Zone run?
The map on The Dead Zone is procedural, size 5,400 with seed 567367, generated by the game. From this page you can view the map on RustMaps, since the same size and seed give the same map.
What are the rules and settings on The Dead Zone?
The name The Dead Zone does not specify a gather rate. The group limit is 8 players, which is the game's default. The server runs survival, gather, build and raid in the standard game. You can fight other players and raid their bases. The server browser lists it under Community. The server calls itself vanilla, which means: unchanged rates, kits and rules: the game in Facepunch's own form. VAC is on, which is Valve's anti-cheat.
About the server
Which version of Rust does The Dead Zone run?
The build on The Dead Zone is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909, running on Linux. To join, your game must match the protocol; Steam handles the update.
Is The Dead Zone online, and how reliable is it?
The server is up at the moment: The Dead Zone is online. About 2 days ago is when it last restarted, by its own uptime figure. 162 of 168 hours up over the last 7 full days, which is 96%. The first record of it on Rust Heatmap is 3 October 2026.
Where is The Dead Zone located?
No region is published by The Dead Zone. Rust Heatmap shows the location a server states. It does not look up the machine's location. You can reach it at 157.85.86.90:28015.
Does The Dead Zone run smoothly?
Average server fps over the last 48 hours was 95; it never dropped below 62. Buildings, deployables and the rest of the world came to as much as 163,602 entities. Memory use reached 6,073 MB at most. Lag, as players experience it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Tags
Which Rust Heatmap lists and filters include The Dead Zone?
The Rust Heatmap lists that The Dead Zone fits are: Best Rust community servers and Vanilla Rust servers, busiest first. You will find it under these filters 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.
What do the server tags on The Dead Zone mean?
These are the tags The Dead Zone publishes for the game's server browser to read: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust form; mp125 (Max players): The slot count is 125; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): To join, run the same version: game protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): This build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): The region code is blank; ^v (Vanilla): Unchanged rates, kits and rules: the game in Facepunch's own form. Also in the tags, shown at the top of this page: players now, the queue and the time the world was made.
Connect
How do I join The Dead Zone?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console, then enter client.connect 157.85.86.90:28015. Alternatively, join from this page with Launch Rust: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.