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The Zen Den

trio weekly wipes moddedoxide
Players now 0/ 50 0% full
7-day average 0 peak –
Rank #15,986 top 71% · #1554 in NA
Last wipe 12d ago weekly schedule
Next wipe 1d 22h Thu 15 Oct, 18:10 UTC

Players

AveragePeak
0123420:0005:0014:0023:0008:0017:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

02040608020:0005:0014:0023:0008:0017:00

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 best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k20 Sep25 Sep29 Sep4 Oct8 Oct13 Oct

Top 71% of all ranked servers, top 84% in NA, and #502 of the trio servers (top 85%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Wipe schedule

from its schedule tag

Next wipe Thursday 15 October, 18:10 UTC, in 1d 22h. Its weekly schedule tag · low confidence

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 22hThu 15 Oct, 18:10 UTC
8d 22hThu 22 Oct, 18:10 UTC
15d 22hThu 29 Oct, 18:10 UTC
22d 23hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
29d 22hThu 12 Nov, 18:10 UTC
36d 22hThu 19 Nov, 18:10 UTC
43d 22hThu 26 Nov, 18:10 UTC

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 1 OctWed 16 SepMon 14 Sep
00.511.52+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 18:10 UTC FW12d ago 0 – running 0
Wed 16 Sep, 01:40 UTC27d 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
Rusticated.com - US Premium Trio | Thursday WipesNA · trio · weekly · 122 on average 15/ 150
Rusticated.com - US Trio | Monday WipesNA · trio · weekly · 78 on average 204/ 200
Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - US TrioNA · trio · weekly · 10 on average 15/ 300
RustForNoobs.com | Solo Duo Trio | Weekly | USNA · trio · weekly · 8 on average 5/ 150
RustForNoobs.com | Mondays | Solo Duo Trio | USNA · trio · weekly · 5 on average 3/ 150
US RustLife.net | Solo/Duo/Trio | Fridays | Noob FriendlyNA · trio · weekly · 2 on average 1/ 100

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Rules, map and settings

What configuration does The Zen Den use?

A gather rate is absent from the name of The Zen Den. A maximum of 3 players per group (trio). The server runs survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. The server browser lists it as Modded, with plugins or settings that alter the game. Oxide plugins are running on it. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.

Which map is running on The Zen Den?

The game generates a procedural map of size 5,000 with seed 1337 for The Zen Den. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, because the same size and seed give the same map. You can see the map name here: Custom Map.

Tags and filters

Where can The Zen Den be found in Rust Player Count lists and filters?

These Rust Player Count lists include The Zen Den: Rust servers with a trio limit, Modded Rust servers and North American Rust servers. You can find it on the server list using these filters: 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.

How should you interpret the tags on The Zen Den?

For the game's server browser, The Zen Den publishes: gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival experience; mp50 (Max players): 50 slots are available; ts3 (Group limit): You can have up to 3 players per team; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs166494 (Build): The game build is 166494; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the game's default networking; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^w (Weekly): The server wipes every week; ^o (Oxide): This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): The Modded category: plugins or configuration change gameplay; NA (North America): You can find it in the North America section of the server browser. At the top of this page, its tags show its current players, queue and world creation time as well.

Player count

How full is The Zen Den?

The server The Zen Den is offline at present, with its last appearance 1 hours ago. The average player count for the past seven days is 0.

What position does The Zen Den hold among Rust servers?

In the last seven days, The Zen Den is #15,986 for player hours, #1,554 in North America, and within the top 71% of ranked servers. The server sits at #502 among trio servers.

About the server

What is the uptime and reliability of The Zen Den?

Currently offline, The Zen Den was last seen 1 hours ago. The uptime it gives suggests it restarted about 11 days 22 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours. 13 September 2026 is when Rust Player Count first saw it.

What is the Rust version for The Zen Den?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494 on Linux is what The Zen Den uses. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam updates it for you.

What region does The Zen Den serve?

Its NA tag shows The Zen Den lists itself in North America. Where a server says it is, that is what Rust Player Count shows; it does not check the machine's actual location. You can reach it at 66.51.99.76:28030.

How well does The Zen Den perform?

The server ran at an average of 45 fps over the last 48 hours, never falling below 30. The maximum number of entities it carried was 153,188, which includes buildings, deployables and everything else. At its highest, it used 10,012 MB of memory. Lag, as players experience it, is caused by low fps and increasing entities.

Wipe days

What changes on The Zen Den on wipe day?

The average busiest point in recent wipes reached 1 players. The latest wipe saw its biggest crowd 0 hours in. Half that peak was maintained until the next wipe in 0% of recent wipes. Otherwise, it dropped below half by day 8.

What wipe pattern does The Zen Den follow?

With too few of The Zen Den's wipes on record to verify the schedule, the tag guides the prediction. Thursday 15 October at 18:10 UTC is when the next wipe is due. It has been running its current world for 12 days 1 hours. According to its tags, wipes are scheduled weekly.

How to join

What steps are needed to join The Zen Den?

Joining is done by opening the console (F1) and running client.connect 66.51.99.76:28030. Another way is the Launch Rust option on this page, which uses Steam to start Rust and put you in.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^w,NA,gmrust,cs166494,ts3,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode The usual Rust survival experience.
mp50
Max players 50 slots are available.
ts3
Group limit You can have up to 3 players per team.
v2634
Protocol To join, your game must match protocol 2634.
cs166494
Build The game build is 166494.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the game's default networking.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Wipe schedule

^w
Weekly The server wipes every week.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins.
^z
Modded The Modded category: plugins or configuration change gameplay.

Region

NA
North America You can find it in the North America section of the server browser.

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.