The Zen Den
Offline NA 66.51.99.76:28030 checked 14d 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 71% of all ranked servers, top 84% in NA, and #519 of the trio servers (top 82%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 29 October, 18:10 UTC, in 1d 6h. Its weekly schedule tag · low confidence
- usual gap
- 8.5 daysbetween real wipes
- on rhythm
- 0%of its recent wipes
- wipe-day peak
- 1players, last three wipes
- crowd held
- 0%else halves by day 8
Coming wipes
- in 1d 6hThu 29 Oct, 18:10 UTC
- in 8d 6hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- in 15d 6hThu 12 Nov, 18:10 UTC
- in 22d 6hThu 19 Nov, 18:10 UTC
- in 29d 6hThu 26 Nov, 18:10 UTC
- in 36d 6hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
- in 43d 6hThu 10 Dec, 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
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 OCT 2026Thu 1 Oct, 18:10 UTC FW26d ago |
0 | – | running | 0 |
16 SEP 2026Wed 16 Sep, 01:40 UTC42d ago |
1 | halved by day 8 | 15.7 days | 2 |
14 SEP 2026Mon 14 Sep, 18:45 UTC43d 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.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Settings and map
What settings and rules does The Zen Den run?
You will find no gather rate in the name of The Zen Den. The group limit is 3 players, as stated (trio). The server runs survival, building, gathering and raiding in the standard game. Combat and raiding between players are possible. Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded in the server browser. Filed under plugins: Oxide. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
Which map is in use on The Zen Den?
The Zen Den runs a procedural map of size 5,000 with seed 1337, generated by the game. From this page you can view the map on RustMaps; the same size and seed give the same map. Filed under map name: Custom Map.
Tags and filters
On Rust Server Index, which lists and filters carry The Zen Den?
Filed under these Rust Server Index lists is The Zen Den: Modded Rust servers, filed by play style, Trio servers, filed under group limit and North American Rust servers. It appears under the following filters on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Server tag: Weekly ^w, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Trio; Wipe schedule: Weekly.
Which tags are attached to The Zen Den, and what do they stand for?
These are the tags The Zen Den publishes; the game's server browser reads this list: gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival, as standard; mp50 (Max players): The queue ceiling sits at 50; ts3 (Group limit): 3 is the largest team allowed; v2634 (Protocol): Joining needs you on game protocol 2634; cs166494 (Build): The game build here is 166494; ptrak (Networking): The standard RakNet layer carries the connection; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^w (Weekly): The server wipes weekly; ^o (Oxide): This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): Plugins or changed settings put this under Modded; NA (North America): North America is the region shown in the server browser. Current players, queue length and when the world was made appear in the tags, set out at the top of this page.
Wipe dates
How does a wipe day run on The Zen Den?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew 1 players on average. The latest wipe peaked 0 hours in. Its recent wipes kept the crowd above half the peak until the next wipe 0% of the time. In the other cases, numbers dropped below half by day 8.
How often is The Zen Den wiped, and on what schedule?
Its schedule is unconfirmed: too few of The Zen Den's wipes are on record, and the prediction follows the tag. Dated for Thursday 29 October at 18:10 UTC: its next wipe. The world it runs now was made 26 days 17 hours. Its tags carry a wipe schedule of once a week.
Player counts
How is The Zen Den ranked compared with the rest?
On seven-day player hours, The Zen Den takes #15,327 overall and #1,547 in North America, within the top 71% of ranked servers. See also the trio servers, where it stands at #519.
What does the player count on The Zen Den look like?
Filed under offline: The Zen Den, last seen 14 days 18 hours ago.
Server facts
What Rust version is The Zen Den on?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494 on Linux is what you will find on The Zen Den. The protocol must match before you can join, and Steam takes care of updating it.
How reliable is The Zen Den, and is it online now?
The server is down at this moment; the last sighting of The Zen Den was 14 days 18 hours ago. Of the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were up, 0% of the time. On 13 September 2026 it was first seen by Rust Server Index.
Where in the world is The Zen Den hosted?
The Zen Den gives North America as its location and the tag NA. No lookup of the machine's position is made by Rust Server Index; it shows where the server says it is. Connection details: 66.51.99.76:28030.
Joining the server
How can you connect to The Zen Den?
Enter client.connect 66.51.99.76:28030 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?,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.