On the class lists: C− (56), with population over 48 hours and no performance mark.
Players now0/ 1250% full
7-day average0peak 2
Rank#6,777top 31%
Last wipe24d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
Subjects
Subject
Mark
Grade
Teacher's comment
Populationplayers against slots, 7-day average
0/ 100
F
A quiet classroom so far: 0 of 125 on average. Plenty of space to grow.
Standingrank on player hours
69/ 100
C+
Working its way up from the back of the class: #6,777 on player hours.
Uptimehours on the list, last 48
98/ 100
A+
Excellent attendance: on the list 47 of the last 48 hours.
Performanceserver fps, last 48 hours
100/ 100
A+
Runs smoothly: 95 server fps on average.
Wipeskeeping the crowd after a wipe
unmarked
–
Too few wipes seen to mark this yet.
Momentumrank now against a week ago
56/ 100
C−
Moving up: up 817 places this week.
A steady term.
Strongest in performance (A+); population is the one to work on (F).
How it is marked: each subject is out of 100 from the figures on this page (population is the 7-day average against the slots, standing is 100 less the top share, uptime the hours of the last 48 it was seen, performance its fps against 60, wipes the share of its wipes that kept half their crowd, momentum its rank against a week ago with 50 for no change). The grade is their average: 95 and over is an A+, 90 an A, 85 an A−, 80 a B+, 75 a B, 70 a B−, 65 a C+, 60 a C, 55 a C−, 45 a D, under 45 an F.
Progress through the term
Its players, its performance and its rank, hour by hour and day by day. Dashed red lines are its wipes.
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
AveragePeak
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
AveragePeakWipe
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
Average fpsLowest fpsWipe
Most entitiesWipe
Most memory, MBWipe
Average fpsLowest fpsWipe
Most entitiesWipe
Most memory, MBWipe
Average fpsLowest fpsWipe
Most entitiesWipe
Most memory, MBWipe
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 best
RankRank in region
Top 31% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Attendance: the wipe record
1 wipe day in the last 16 weeks
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W wiped that day F the force wipe · today. From the wipes in the table below.
Wipe schedule
too few wipes seen yet
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
wipe-day peak3players, 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 UTC24d ago
3
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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
classmates: the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes
You'll find no region listed by The Dead Zone. The location shown on Rust Server Score comes from the server itself, not from a lookup of the machine. Find it at 157.85.86.90:28015.
How dependable is The Dead Zone, and is it online at the moment?
Right now, The Dead Zone is online. According to its reported uptime, the last restart was about 2 days ago. It was up 96% of the time over the last 7 full days, 162 of 168 hours. It was first seen by Rust Server Score on 3 October 2026.
Is The Dead Zone smooth to play on?
It averaged 95 server fps over the last 48 hours, with a low of 62. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to as many as 163,602 entities. Up to 6,073 MB of memory was used. When fps is low and entities climb, that is lag to players.
Which Rust version is The Dead Zone running?
You will find The Dead Zone on Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909, hosted on Linux. Steam updates your game for you, but you need the same protocol to join.
Wipe cycle
How frequently does The Dead Zone wipe its map?
The Dead Zone has not had enough wipes recorded to reveal its rhythm. Next up is Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, when the monthly force wipe takes every Rust server with it. It has been running its current world for 24 days 4 hours.
What should you expect from wipe day on The Dead Zone?
Across its recent wipes, the busiest moments averaged 3 players. The crowd on the latest wipe was largest 29 hours after it began.
Player numbers
Where does The Dead Zone sit among Rust servers?
In the top 31% of all ranked servers, The Dead Zone sits at #6,777 for player hours over the last seven days.
What does the population on The Dead Zone look like?
With 125 slots available, The Dead Zone currently has 0 players. The seven-day average is 0 players, with a peak of 2.
Lists and filters
What do The Dead Zone's tags stand for?
gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp125 (Max players): The server holds 125 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The limit is 8 per team, the default the game ships with; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your game must match that version to join; cs168909 (Build): This runs on build 168909; ptrak (Networking): This is RakNet: the network layer Rust normally uses; $r? (Region code): There is no region code on this server; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's own version, with no changed rates, kits or rules are the tags The Dead Zone publishes, and the game's server browser reads them. Its tags also carry today's player number, the queue length and the world's creation time, which you'll find at the top of this page.
Which lists and filters on Rust Server Score show The Dead Zone?
Rust Server Score lists that include The Dead Zone: Best community servers, graded and Vanilla Rust servers, graded. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more.
Map and rules
Which rules does The Dead Zone enforce, and what are its settings?
You will find no gather rate in the name of The Dead Zone. With no change from the game default, groups take up to 8 players. survival is the mode here, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. You can raid other players and fight them. You will see it in the Community section of the server browser, since it is a community server. Vanilla is what it calls itself: facepunch's own version, with no changed rates, kits or rules. You are covered by VAC, Valve's anti-cheat.
Can you tell me which map The Dead Zone uses?
The Dead Zone runs a game-generated procedural map at size 5,400, seed 567367. Because size and seed match, the map is the same each time, and this page links to it on RustMaps.
Connecting
How should you connect to The Dead Zone?
Enter client.connect 157.85.86.90:28015 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust on this page to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically.
Server tags
what each one means
Published asmp125,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^v,gmrust,cs168909,ts8
Game
gmrust
Game modeSurvival in the standard Rust style.
mp125
Max playersThe server holds 125 slots.
ts8
Group limitThe limit is 8 per team, the default the game ships with.
v2635
ProtocolThe game protocol is 2635, so your game must match that version to join.
cs168909
BuildThis runs on build 168909.
ptrak
NetworkingThis is RakNet: the network layer Rust normally uses.
$r?
Region codeThere is no region code on this server.
Difficulty
^v
VanillaFacepunch's own version, with no changed rates, kits or rules.
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.
A steady term. Strongest in performance (A+); population is the one to work on (F).