Online157.85.86.2:28015checked 10m ago
The Dark Carnival
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
daily · 1 is bestTop 39% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 22d 22h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 0 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 23:41 UTC FW11d ago | 1 | – | running | 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.
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from the figures on this pageMap and rules
What are the rules and settings on The Dark Carnival?
The name of The Dark Carnival gives no gather rate. Up to 8 players form a group, which is the game's default. It runs survival, the normal game, with gather, build and raid. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. Under Community in the server browser, it is a community server. VAC from Valve is active as anti-cheat.
What map is used on The Dark Carnival?
The Dark Carnival uses a procedural map of size 4,500 with seed 1201455836, generated by the game. The same size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
Population
How populated is The Dark Carnival?
On The Dark Carnival, 0 of 75 slots are filled right now. The seven-day average is 0 players, with a peak of 1. The busiest time in the last 48 hours was 00:00 UTC, when the average was 0 players.
Where does The Dark Carnival stand in the rankings of Rust servers?
Over the last seven days, The Dark Carnival ranks #8,832 for player hours, placing it in the top 39% of all ranked servers.
Server tags
What is the meaning of the tags on The Dark Carnival?
The server browser reads gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival gameplay; mp75 (Max players): 75 player slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, which is the default for Rust; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version must match protocol 2634 to connect; cs167584 (Build): It runs on game build 167584; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for Rust; $r? (Region code): The region code is not set from the tags The Dark Carnival publishes. The top of this page also shows its current players, queue, and world creation time, all from the tags.
Where does The Dark Carnival appear in When Is Rust Force Wipe lists and filters?
These themed lists on When Is Rust Force Wipe feature The Dark Carnival: Best Rust community servers. Its filters on the server list are Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Server details
What is the location of The Dark Carnival?
Region: not published by The Dark Carnival. What you see on When Is Rust Force Wipe is the server's own location claim; the machine's real spot is not looked up. Connect using 157.85.86.2:28015.
How smooth is the performance on The Dark Carnival?
It held an average of 111 server fps over the last 48 hours, never below 35. The world held as many as 118,360 entities: buildings, deployables and all other objects. At its peak it used 4,221 MB of memory. Players feel lag when fps drops and entity counts climb.
What is the uptime and reliability of The Dark Carnival?
You can connect to The Dark Carnival at this moment. About 12 hours ago is when it last restarted, based on its reported uptime. It was up for 168 of the last 7 full days' 168 hours, 100% of the time. First seen by When Is Rust Force Wipe on 13 September 2026.
What is the Rust version for The Dark Carnival?
On Linux, The Dark Carnival runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167584. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam updates it for you.
Wipe schedule
How often does The Dark Carnival wipe, and when?
The force wipe is the only wipe The Dark Carnival takes, once a month. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC; that is its next wipe. The world in play now was built 11 days 21 hours ago.
What happens on wipe day for The Dark Carnival?
Its recent wipes averaged 1 players at peak. The peak of the crowd on the latest wipe came 0 hours after the wipe.
Join info
What is the process to join The Dark Carnival?
Open Rust, press F1 for the console, then type client.connect 157.85.86.2:28015. Alternatively, use Launch Rust on this page to start Rust via Steam and join.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished as mp75,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167584,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp75
ts8
v2634
cs167584
ptrak
$r?
Players now (cp), the queue (qp) and the wipe time (born) are in the tag string too; they change every few minutes and are shown at the top of the page. Flag meanings are Facepunch's.