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Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE

Online NA 23.230.3.29:28019 checked 9m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 69 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average1peak 4
Rank#4,005top 18% · #666 in NA
RegionNANA · group 88 max
Last wipe28d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe6d 22hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123421:0006:0015:0001:0010:0019:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

025507510021:0006:0015:0001:0010:0019:00

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.

Climbing the charts

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
12k4k6k8k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 18% of all ranked servers, top 36% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 6d 22h. The force wipe · high confidence

5
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

6d 22hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
34d 22hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 5, 29 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 18:03 UTC FW28d ago 5 – 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.

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The interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Server tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE?

You'll find Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Modded Rust servers, live, Rust PvE servers, ranked by who's hot, Rust zombie servers, by the numbers and North America: who's hot right now. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Monthly ^m, PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

What do the server tags on Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp69 (Max players): Slots: 69; ts88 (Group limit): No team can exceed 88 players; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): A monthly wipe, synced to Facepunch's force wipe; ^p (PvE): Here the world is the threat, and players don't fight each other; ^o (Oxide): This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing; NA (North America): Its place in the server browser is under North America. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

The players

How does Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE rank against other Rust servers?

For the last seven days of player hours, Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE sits at #4,005, inside the top 18% of ranked servers and at #666 in North America.

How many players are on Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE right now?

Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE is holding 0 players, with 69 slots in total. Peak for the week was 4, against an average of 1 players. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 00:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.

About the server

Is Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE is up and running. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 7 hours ago. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours in total. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.

Does Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 70 server fps, with a low of 37. At its peak it held 143,806 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. The highest memory usage was 3,876 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE located?

Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE uses its NA tag to list itself in North America. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 23.230.3.29:28019.

Which Rust version is Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE runs on Linux. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

Wipe times

What happens on Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 5 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 29 hours after it began.

What is the wipe schedule on Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE?

Wipes on Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE come once a month, alongside the force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. 28 days 2 hours is when the present world was made. Its tags commit to wipes each month.

Rules and settings

Which map does Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE run?

A procedural map of 4,096 with seed 1337 is what Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE runs, made by the game. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map. The map name, as written, is Custom Map.

What are the rules and settings on Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE. A group holds at most 88 players. It runs pve, no fighting other players. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. Oxide plugins power it. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

Join up

How do I join Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE?

Enter client.connect 23.230.3.29:28019 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically. For more, see https://pvz.tebex.io/category/packages.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp69,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,NA,^p,gmrust,cs168909,ts88,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp69
Max players Slots: 69.
ts88
Group limit No team can exceed 88 players.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly A monthly wipe, synced to Facepunch's force wipe.

Gameplay

^p
PvE Here the world is the threat, and players don't fight each other.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins.
^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing.

Region

NA
North America Its place in the server browser is under North America.

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.