The Zen Den
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 70%.
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
66.51.99.76:28030
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
Down 1672 places on last week. Top 70% of all ranked servers, top 84% in NA. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 66.51.99.76:28030
- Region
- NA
- Max players
- 50
- Group limit
- trio
- Wipe schedule
- weekly
- Last wipe
- 1 Oct 2026, 18:10 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 The Zen Den use?
The name of The Zen Den does not include a gather rate. The group cap is 3 players (trio). survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser lists it as Modded: plugins or settings alter the game. Plugins running: Oxide. VAC is on: Valve's anti-cheat is running.
What's the map on The Zen Den?
The map on The Zen Den is procedural, size 5,000, generated with seed 1337 by the game. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed give an identical map. The map is called Custom Map.
Tags
What are the tags on The Zen Den for?
These tags come from The Zen Den and go straight into the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp50 (Max players): Slot count: 50; ts3 (Group limit): No more than 3 to a team; v2634 (Protocol): Get on protocol 2634 or the door stays shut; cs166494 (Build): Game build is 166494; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which the game uses as standard; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^w (Weekly): Wipes every seven days; ^o (Oxide): Plugin framework: Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Modded listing, with plugins or settings altering the game; NA (North America): Browser listing: North America. 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.
Which Boongarust filters show The Zen Den?
The Boongarust lists that take The Zen Den are: Top modded Rust servers, Trio Rust servers and North America Rust servers. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Server tag: Weekly ^w, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Trio; Wipe schedule: Weekly; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server info
Performance of The Zen Den: does it hold up?
The 48-hour average was 51 server fps; the floor was 35. Buildings, deployables and everything else added up to as many as 153,313 entities. It drew as much as 8,591 MB of memory. What players call lag is low fps plus a rising entity count.
What's the location of The Zen Den?
Its NA tag is how The Zen Den lists itself in North America. Boongarust takes the server at its word on location and does not check where the machine sits. You can reach it at 66.51.99.76:28030.
How reliable is The Zen Den?
The Zen Den is up as you read this. The uptime it reports suggests a restart around 6 days 8 hours ago. Uptime over the last 7 full days came to 100%, 168 hours from 168. 13 September 2026 is when Boongarust first spotted it.
Which Rust build does The Zen Den have?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494 on Linux: that is The Zen Den. Steam keeps your game updated; you need the same protocol to connect.
Wipe times
How does The Zen Den handle wipe day?
Across recent wipes, the average peak was 1 players. Peak crowd on the latest wipe came 0 hours after it. Half the peak held until the next wipe in 0% of recent wipes. The fall below half came by day 8 when it did not hold.
The Zen Den wipes on what schedule?
Its tag sets the prediction: too few of The Zen Den's wipes are on record to confirm its schedule. Thursday 8 October at 18:10 UTC is when the next wipe comes. The world you are on was made 6 days 10 hours. Its tags say it wipes weekly.
Population
What's The Zen Den's rank among Rust servers?
In the top 70% of all ranked servers, The Zen Den is #16,629 on player hours over the last seven days and #1,658 in North America. It is #489 among trio servers.
How many players are on The Zen Den?
The Zen Den is showing 0 players on 50 slots right now. Averaged 0 players across the last week.
Join the server
How do you connect to The Zen Den?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 66.51.99.76:28030. Or click Launch Rust here, which uses Steam to open the game and join.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^w,NA,gmrust,cs166494,ts3,^o^z.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.