Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 13%.
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
23.230.3.29:28019
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
Up 1778 places on last week. Top 13% of all ranked servers, top 26% in NA. Daily; 1 is best.
In its own words
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Spec sheet
- Address
- 23.230.3.29:28019
- Region
- NA
- Max players
- 69
- Group limit
- 88 max
- Wipe schedule
- monthly
- Last wipe
- 1 Oct 2026, 18:03 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 13 Sep 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 Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE use?
No gather rate appears in the name of Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE. Group size is limited to 88 players. It plays as pve, player-versus-player combat is off. The server browser lists it as Modded: plugins or settings alter the game. Oxide plugins are running on it. The server has VAC on.
What's the map on Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE?
Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE uses a procedural map of 4,096 that the game generates with seed 1337. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed give an identical map. The map is called Custom Map.
Tags
What do Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE's tags signify?
gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival setup; mp69 (Max players): 69 players fit in; ts88 (Group limit): No more than 88 to a team; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: match it or you cannot join; cs167058 (Build): Running build 167058; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's usual choice; $r? (Region code): No region code on record; ^m (Monthly): Wipes land once a month, alongside the force wipe; ^p (PvE): PvE: other players are not the danger, the world is; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) handles the plugins; ^z (Modded): Modded: plugins or settings change how it plays; NA (North America): Browser listing: North America are the tags Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE puts out, and the game's server browser takes them in. From the tags, this page also pulls its live player count, its queue and its world's creation time, and puts them at the top.
What Boongarust lists feature Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE?
The Boongarust lists that take Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE are: Top modded Rust servers, Best Rust PvE servers, Rust servers with zombies and North America Rust servers. These filters bring it up 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; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server details
How smooth is Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE?
Average server fps over the last 48 hours was 72, with a low of 38. Buildings, deployables and everything else added up to as many as 112,411 entities. It drew as much as 3,755 MB of memory. What players call lag is low fps plus a rising entity count.
What's the location of Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE?
Its NA tag is how Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE lists itself in North America. What you see on Boongarust is where a server says it is, not where the machine is found to stand. Connect at 23.230.3.29:28019.
How reliable is Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE?
Right now Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE is live. A restart happened about 12 hours ago, based on the uptime figure. 160 hours out of 168 across the last 7 full days. 95% uptime. It entered Boongarust's records on 13 September 2026.
Which Rust build does Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE have?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167058 on Linux: that is Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE. Steam keeps your game updated; you need the same protocol to connect.
Wipe times
Wipe day at Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE: what's it like?
5 players was the average peak on recent wipes. 29 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.
When does Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE wipe?
Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE wipes with the force wipe, once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes the force wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. Its world is 6 days 17 hours old. Its tags carry a monthly wipe schedule.
Population
Where does Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE sit in the rankings?
In the top 13% of all ranked servers, Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE is #2,980 on player hours over the last seven days and #524 in North America.
Is Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE busy?
Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE is showing 0 players on 69 slots right now. The average over the last seven days was 2 players, with a peak of 6. It was busiest at 19:00 UTC in the last 48 hours, with 5 players on average.
How to join
How do you connect to Players vs Zombies! HARDCORE PVE?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 23.230.3.29:28019. Or click Launch Rust here, which uses Steam to open the game and join. Find it at https://pvz.tebex.io/category/packages.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp69,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,NA,^p,gmrust,cs167058,ts88,^o^z.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.