Find a Rust team that lasts more than one wipe

A Rust team almost never breaks over PvP skill: it breaks over rhythm. The player farming three hours a night and the one logging in on Saturday are not living the same wipe. Before looking for teammates, state your play hours honestly, whether you'll be there on wipe day, and what you want out of mid-wipe, when the base is up and the map gets tense.

Zlobby doesn't connect to Steam and doesn't verify play hours: information is declared and exists for introductions, not rankings.

Half of all team conflicts come from a server disagreement: vanilla or 2x, group limit, weekly or bi-weekly wipe, modded or not. Agree on those criteria before day one. Zlobby's Rust server directory shows wipe cadence and measured status for listed servers — a shared starting point for the decision.

If you run a server yourself, you can also list it for free.

Create a Lobby with the target server, the wipe cadence, your play hours and the open spots. Applications let you read who's applying before sharing base position or door codes — information you only give to people you chose.

Start by creating your Zlobby account, free and adults-only.

Groups that implode before the wipe ends usually share the same profile: rushed recruiting in a global chat, no rules about loot sharing, and a self-appointed leader treating components like a personal stash. Writing three simple rules — who manages shared loot, who calls raids, what happens when a base is lost — filters out most of it.