Offline173.249.63.164:28015checked 11d ago
TheDarkZone
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 70% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No wipe seen yet. | ||||
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.
Similar servers
the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipesQuick answers
from the figures on this pageMap and rules
What are the rules and settings on TheDarkZone?
A gather rate is not given in the name of TheDarkZone. Up to 8 players form a group, which is the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build, raid: the standard game. Players may raid and fight one another. Plugins or settings change the game, so the server browser puts it under Modded. Plugins number Oxide on this server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What map is used on TheDarkZone?
A procedural map of size 4,000 with seed 378793338 runs on TheDarkZone, generated by the game. From this page, RustMaps can display it: the same size and seed give the same map.
Population
How populated is TheDarkZone?
At the moment TheDarkZone is offline, and it was last online 11 days 13 hours ago.
What position does TheDarkZone hold in the Rust server rankings?
Over the last seven days, TheDarkZone ranks #15,954 for player hours, placing it in the top 70% of all ranked servers.
Tags
What are the tags on TheDarkZone and what do they mean?
The server browser reads gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival gameplay; mp10 (Max players): The slot count is 10; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, as in the standard game; v2633 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on protocol 2633; cs163794 (Build): It runs on game build 163794; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for Rust; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework is Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): The Modded category applies: plugins or settings alter the game from the tags TheDarkZone publishes. The top of this page also shows its current players, queue, and world creation time, all from the tags.
Where does TheDarkZone appear in When Is Rust Force Wipe lists and filters?
On When Is Rust Force Wipe, TheDarkZone is placed in these lists: Rust modded servers, listed live. Its filters on the server list are Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
Server info
What is the location of TheDarkZone?
No region is published by TheDarkZone. The location on When Is Rust Force Wipe is what the server claims; the actual machine location is not checked. You can reach it at 173.249.63.164:28015.
How reliable is TheDarkZone, and is it currently online?
The last time TheDarkZone was seen was 11 days 13 hours ago; it is offline right now. The last 7 full days saw it up 0 of 168 hours, 0% of the time. First seen by When Is Rust Force Wipe on 13 September 2026.
What Rust version is TheDarkZone on?
On Linux, TheDarkZone runs Rust network protocol 2633 and build 163794. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam updates it for you.
Wipe days
When does TheDarkZone wipe?
Its rhythm cannot be told from the wipes of TheDarkZone on record, which are too few. Next force wipe: Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Every Rust server wipes at that point in the month. The world in play now was built 39 days 22 hours ago.
Connect
How can you connect to TheDarkZone?
Use the console: press F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 173.249.63.164:28015. Another option is Launch Rust on this page, which launches Rust via Steam and connects you.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished as mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs163794,ts8,^o^z
Game
gmrust
mp10
ts8
v2633
cs163794
ptrak
$r?
Mods and access
^o
^z
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.