On air · chart position #10,973
The Dark Carnival
Online 157.85.86.2:28015 checked 9m ago
Players
The Dark Carnival
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 49% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 6d 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 FW27d 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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Quick answers
About the server
Is The Dark Carnival online, and how reliable is it?
You will find The Dark Carnival online at this moment. About 1 hours ago is when it last restarted, to go by the uptime it reports. 167 of 168 hours is what it managed over the past 7 full days, 99% of the time. Rust Charts has tracked it since 13 September 2026.
Where is The Dark Carnival located?
There's no region listed for The Dark Carnival. Where a server says it is — that's what Rust Charts shows, without checking the machine's real location. Connect at 157.85.86.2:28015.
Which version of Rust does The Dark Carnival run?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what The Dark Carnival runs. Your game must match the protocol to get in, and Steam keeps it updated for you.
Does The Dark Carnival run smoothly?
It averaged 121 server fps over the last 48 hours, with a floor of 84. Buildings, deployables and all the rest of the world came to as many as 119,365 entities. At most it took 5,252 MB of memory. Lag, as players experience it, is low fps plus entities piling up.
Population
How busy is The Dark Carnival?
On The Dark Carnival, 0 players are in and 75 slots are the ceiling. Over the last week it averaged 0 players; the high point was 1.
How does The Dark Carnival rank against other Rust servers?
The top 49% of ranked servers includes The Dark Carnival, at #10,973 on player hours for the last week.
Wipe schedule
What does wipe day look like on The Dark Carnival?
Its recent wipes peaked at an average of 1 players. The crowd on the latest wipe hit its peak 0 hours in.
What is the wipe schedule on The Dark Carnival?
The force wipe is the only wipe on The Dark Carnival, once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe lands, its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes with it. The world it runs now dates from 27 days 21 hours.
Rules and world
What are the rules and settings on The Dark Carnival?
You will not find a gather rate in the name The Dark Carnival. 8 players is the group limit, the default for the game. You play survival, gather, build and raid in the standard game. PvP is on: players fight and raid. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is on.
Which map does The Dark Carnival run?
The map on The Dark Carnival is procedural, size 4,500, seed 1201455836, made by the game. Since the same size and seed give the same map, this page links to it on RustMaps.
Tags explained
Which Rust Charts lists and filters include The Dark Carnival?
The Rust Charts lists that carry The Dark Carnival are: Rust community servers, unmodded. It appears under these filters on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
What do the server tags on The Dark Carnival mean?
The game's server browser sees these tags from The Dark Carnival: gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival rules apply; mp75 (Max players): The server holds 75 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The game default applies: teams of up to 8; v2635 (Protocol): The server speaks protocol 2635, so your game needs the same version; cs168909 (Build): This server reports build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set. At the top of this page you'll see the tags' extra details: players now, the queue, and the age of the world.
How to join
How do I join The Dark Carnival?
The console is behind F1 in Rust: enter client.connect 157.85.86.2:28015 there. Or join on this page with Launch Rust, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.