The Zen Den
Offline NA 66.51.99.76:28030 checked 15d 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 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 12h. Its weekly schedule tag · low confidence
Coming wipes
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 18:10 UTC FW27d ago | 0 | – | running | 0 |
| Wed 16 Sep, 01:40 UTC43d ago | 1 | halved by day 8 | 15.7 days | 2 |
| Mon 14 Sep, 18:45 UTC44d 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.
Lists and tags
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include The Zen Den?
These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include The Zen Den: Modded Rust servers, live, Trio servers: who's hot, who's slipping and North America: who's hot right now. It appears under these 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.
What do the server tags on The Zen Den mean?
For the server browser, The Zen Den lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp50 (Max players): There are 50 slots; ts3 (Group limit): No team can exceed 3 players; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2634; cs166494 (Build): Game build: 166494; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^w (Weekly): Every week brings a wipe; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing; NA (North America): In the server browser it sits under North America. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.
The players
How does The Zen Den rank against other Rust servers?
For the last seven days of player hours, The Zen Den sits at #15,327, inside the top 71% of ranked servers and at #1,547 in North America. The trio field places it at #519.
How many players are on The Zen Den right now?
Offline now, The Zen Den was last spotted 15 days 12 hours ago.
Server details
Is The Zen Den online, and how reliable is it?
Down at the moment: The Zen Den was last seen 15 days 12 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 0%, with 0 out of 168 hours online. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.
Where is The Zen Den located?
In North America, The Zen Den lists itself with its NA tag. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 66.51.99.76:28030.
Which Rust version is The Zen Den on?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494 is the version The Zen Den runs on Linux. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe times
What happens on The Zen Den when wipe day comes around?
Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 1 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 0 hours after it began. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that happened in 0% of its recent wipes. In the wipes that didn't hold, the crowd sank below half by day 8.
What is the wipe schedule on The Zen Den?
The prediction follows its tag, since too few of The Zen Den's wipes are on record to confirm the schedule. Come Thursday 29 October at 18:10 UTC, the next wipe is expected. 27 days 11 hours is when the present world was made. Weekly is the wipe rhythm its tags set out.
Map and rules
Which map does The Zen Den run?
The procedural map on The Zen Den measures 5,000 and comes from the game with seed 1337. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map. Custom Map is how the map name reads.
What are the rules and settings on The Zen Den?
No gather rate appears in the name of The Zen Den. trio is the group rule, capping teams at 3 players. survival is the game mode, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Players can raid and fight one another. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Oxide plugins are running on it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.
How to join
How do I join The Zen Den?
The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 66.51.99.76:28030. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.