Dead by Thursday
Offline NA 66.51.99.23:28065 checked 5d 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
Top 69% of all ranked servers, top 81% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 15h. The force wipe · high confidence
- usual gap
- 1.7 daysbetween real wipes
- wipe-day peak
- 1players, last three wipes
Coming wipes
- in 7d 15hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- in 35d 15hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 1 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
3 OCT 2026Sat 3 Oct, 10:32 UTC25d ago |
1 | – | running | 0 |
1 OCT 2026Thu 1 Oct, 18:15 UTC FW27d ago |
1 | – | 1.7 days | 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.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Rules and settings
What settings and rules does Dead by Thursday run?
The name of Dead by Thursday does not state a gather rate. No group limit is published. The server runs build & creative, no gathering; sandbox building. Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded in the server browser. Filed under plugins: Oxide. VAC is on: Valve's anti-cheat is enabled.
What is the map on Dead by Thursday?
Size 4,096, seed 1337: the game generates the procedural map on Dead by Thursday. You can view the map on RustMaps from this page, as the same size and seed give the same map. The name of the map is Custom Map.
Tags
On Rust Server Index, which lists and filters carry Dead by Thursday?
Filed under these Rust Server Index lists is Dead by Thursday: Modded Rust servers, filed by play style, Build and creative servers, Creative servers, filed under C and North American Rust servers. These filters on the server list bring it up: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Creative ^c, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
What is meant by the tags on Dead by Thursday?
The server's own tags are listed here, and the game's server browser reads them: Dead by Thursday gives gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival, as standard; mp50 (Max players): Player cap: 50; ts0 (Group limit): Team play is turned off; v2635 (Protocol): Joining needs you on game protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build here is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The standard RakNet layer carries the connection; $r? (Region code): The region code field is left empty; ^m (Monthly): It wipes monthly with the force wipe from Facepunch; ^c (Creative): Build freely with no gathering: a creative sandbox; ^o (Oxide): Plugins run through Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Modded: the game is changed by plugins or settings; NA (North America): North America is the region shown in the server browser. The top of this page shows three items from the tags: players at present, queue and world creation time.
Wipe schedule
What should you expect on Dead by Thursday when wipe day comes?
Its recent wipes averaged 1 players at peak. The latest wipe peaked 1 hours in.
How often is Dead by Thursday wiped, and on what schedule?
One wipe a month is all Dead by Thursday runs, and it comes with the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. The world it runs now was made 25 days 16 hours. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
Player counts
How is Dead by Thursday ranked compared with the rest?
The seven-day player-hours ranking places Dead by Thursday at #15,358 and #1,518 in North America, among the top 69% of ranked servers.
How many players are on Dead by Thursday at the moment?
Filed under offline: Dead by Thursday, last seen 5 days 10 hours ago. 0 players is the average over the past seven days.
Operator and status
What Rust version is Dead by Thursday on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909, on Linux, is what Dead by Thursday runs. The protocol must match before you can join, and Steam takes care of updating it.
What is the uptime and current status of Dead by Thursday?
The server is down at this moment; the last sighting of Dead by Thursday was 5 days 10 hours ago. Of the last 7 full days, 42 of 168 hours were up, 25% of the time. The earliest sighting at Rust Server Index is 13 September 2026.
What is the location of Dead by Thursday?
Filed under North America by its own listing, Dead by Thursday carries the NA tag. What Rust Server Index shows is the stated location, not the machine's actual position, which it does not look up. Connection details: 66.51.99.23:28065.
How to join
How can you connect to Dead by Thursday?
Enter client.connect 66.51.99.23:28065 in the console, opened with F1. Or join on this page with Launch Rust, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
Server tags
What each one means.
Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^c,NA,gmrust,cs168909,ts0,^o^z
Game
gmrust
mp50
ts0
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Gameplay
^c
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.