The Dark Carnival
Online 157.85.86.2:28015 checked 13m ago
Measurements
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
Top 50% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 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
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 23:41 UTC FW26d 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.
Quick answers
Player counts
How does The Dark Carnival rank against other Rust servers?
By player hours over the last seven days, The Dark Carnival places at #11,085, within the top 50% of ranked servers.
How busy is The Dark Carnival?
The Dark Carnival holds 0 players at the moment, out of 75 slots. Seven days of counting give an average of 0 players and a peak of 1.
Tags
What do the server tags on The Dark Carnival mean?
The game's server browser reads the tags The Dark Carnival publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp75 (Max players): The server has 75 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2635 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank. You will see the player count, queue and world creation time at the top of this page, because the tags carry them too.
Which Rust Population lists and filters include The Dark Carnival?
The Dark Carnival appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Community servers, field-listed. Look for it under these filters on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
Wipe notes
What does wipe day look like on The Dark Carnival?
Averaged over recent wipes, 1 players were counted at the busiest point. Peak came 0 hours into the latest wipe.
What is the wipe schedule on The Dark Carnival?
Once a month The Dark Carnival wipes, and that is with the force wipe. Its next wipe falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC with the force wipe, which takes every Rust server. Counted from 26 days 21 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.
Map and rules
Which map does The Dark Carnival run?
The map on The Dark Carnival is procedural, made by the game at size 4,500 from seed 1201455836. The map follows from its size and seed, and RustMaps shows it from this page.
What are the rules and settings on The Dark Carnival?
No gather rate appears in the name of The Dark Carnival. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. You get survival here, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. You will find it under Community: it is a community server. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.
About the server
Which version of Rust does The Dark Carnival run?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what The Dark Carnival uses. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.
Does The Dark Carnival run smoothly?
The last 48 hours saw an average of 123 server fps, with 105 as the lowest. The entity count reached 119,615: buildings, deployables and all other objects. Up to 5,013 MB of memory was used. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.
Is The Dark Carnival online, and how reliable is it?
The Dark Carnival is up and running at the moment. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 9 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 out of 168 hours. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 13 September 2026.
Where is The Dark Carnival located?
A region is not published by The Dark Carnival. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. You will find it at 157.85.86.2:28015.
Getting in
How do I join The Dark Carnival?
To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 157.85.86.2:28015; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you.