Dead by Thursday
Offline NA 66.51.99.23:28065 checked 5d ago
Vital stats
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 11h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 3 Oct, 10:32 UTC25d ago | 1 | – | running | 0 |
| Thu 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.
Lists and tags
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Dead by Thursday?
You'll find Dead by Thursday on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Modded Rust servers, live, Build and creative servers, live, Rust creative servers, watched and North America: who's hot right now. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Creative ^c, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
What do the server tags on Dead by Thursday mean?
These are the tags Dead by Thursday publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp50 (Max players): It has 50 slots; ts0 (Group limit): No teams here; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635, so your client has to match it to join; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^m (Monthly): The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe; ^c (Creative): Build what you like in this sandbox, with no gathering; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing; NA (North America): The server browser lists it under North America. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.
Player counts
How does Dead by Thursday rank against other Rust servers?
For the last seven days of player hours, Dead by Thursday sits at #15,339, inside the top 69% of ranked servers and at #1,509 in North America.
How many players are on Dead by Thursday right now?
Offline now, Dead by Thursday was last spotted 5 days 14 hours ago. It has averaged 0 players over the last seven days.
Server facts
Is Dead by Thursday online, and how reliable is it?
Dead by Thursday shows as offline, last spotted 5 days 14 hours ago. It was up 25% of the time over the last 7 full days, 42 of 168 hours in total. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.
Where is Dead by Thursday located?
In North America, Dead by Thursday lists itself with its NA tag. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 66.51.99.23:28065.
Which Rust version is Dead by Thursday on?
On Linux, Dead by Thursday runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe days
What happens on Dead by Thursday when wipe day comes around?
Recent wipes averaged a peak of 1 players at their busiest. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 1 hours in.
What is the wipe schedule on Dead by Thursday?
Wipes on Dead by Thursday come once a month, alongside the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives: its next wipe, and one that hits every Rust server. 25 days 20 hours is when the present world was made. Its tags commit to wipes each month.
Rules and settings
Which map does Dead by Thursday run?
A procedural map of 4,096 with seed 1337 is what Dead by Thursday runs, made by the game. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map. Custom Map is how the map name reads.
What are the rules and settings on Dead by Thursday?
No gather rate appears in the name of Dead by Thursday. Nothing on group size is published here. It runs build & creative, build freely in a sandbox, no gathering. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Oxide plugins power it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.
How to join
How do I join Dead by Thursday?
Enter client.connect 66.51.99.23:28065 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically.