The Dead Zone
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 26%.
Power level
Players on it, from the Steam server list.
Every five minutes.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Tale of the tape
Against its closest rival: the most similar server we track.
Wipe receipt
157.85.86.90:28015
THANK YOU · COME AGAIN NEXT WIPE
The map
Under the hood
Asked of the server directly. Low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
The ranking
Top 26% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 157.85.86.90:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 125
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 3 Oct 2026, 16:01 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 3 Oct 2026
Other contenders
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Map and rules
What settings does The Dead Zone use?
The name of The Dead Zone does not include a gather rate. The group limit is 8 players, as the game defaults. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. You see it under Community in the browser: it is a community server. It claims vanilla status: untouched: no rate changes, no kits, no house rules. The server has VAC on.
What's the map on The Dead Zone?
The map on The Dead Zone is procedural, size 5,400, generated with seed 567367 by the game. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed give an identical map.
Server tags
How should you read the tags on The Dead Zone?
These tags come from The Dead Zone and go straight into the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival setup; mp125 (Max players): Slot count: 125; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, as Facepunch ships it; v2634 (Protocol): Get on protocol 2634 or the door stays shut; cs167058 (Build): Build 167058; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's usual choice; $r? (Region code): No region code on record; ^v (Vanilla): Untouched: no rate changes, no kits, no house rules. The tags carry its current players, its queue and its world's creation time, and this page puts them up top.
Where does The Dead Zone appear in Boongarust lists?
On these Boongarust lists you will find The Dead Zone: The busiest community servers in Rust and Vanilla Rust servers. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server details
How smooth is The Dead Zone?
Average server fps over the last 48 hours was 91, with a low of 74. The entity count reached 161,815: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Memory use peaked at 4,037 MB. What players call lag is low fps plus a rising entity count.
What's the physical location of The Dead Zone?
No region is published by The Dead Zone. What you see on Boongarust is where a server says it is, not where the machine is found to stand. Connect at 157.85.86.90:28015.
What's the uptime like on The Dead Zone?
Right now The Dead Zone is live. Its reported uptime points to a restart roughly 2 hours ago. Uptime over the last 4 full days came to 100%, 96 hours from 96. The first record Boongarust has is 3 October 2026.
Which Rust build does The Dead Zone have?
On Linux, The Dead Zone runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167058. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe times
Wipe day at The Dead Zone: what's it like?
3 players was the average peak on recent wipes. Peak crowd on the latest wipe came 29 hours after it.
How often does The Dead Zone wipe?
The Dead Zone's wipes are too few on record to show a rhythm. The monthly force wipe hits every Rust server, and the next one lands on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 4 days 8 hours ago this server built its current world.
Player counts
What's The Dead Zone's rank among Rust servers?
Player hours over seven days put The Dead Zone at #6,117, in the top 26% of all ranked servers.
Is The Dead Zone busy?
0 players are on The Dead Zone at the moment, out of 125 slots. It averaged 0 players over the last seven days and peaked at 3. Over the last 48 hours, the busiest hour was 21:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.
Join the server
How do you connect to The Dead Zone?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 157.85.86.90:28015. You can also use Launch Rust on this page to open Rust via Steam and connect.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp125,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^v,gmrust,cs167058,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.