On air · chart position #6,406
The Dark Force
Online 168.100.161.129:28039 checked 10m ago
Players
The Dark Force
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 29% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Its wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 3 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 25 Oct, 04:35 UTC3d ago | 2 | – | running | 1 |
| Sat 3 Oct, 09:37 UTC25d ago | 3 | halved by day 3 | 21.8 days | 0 |
| Thu 24 Sep, 18:41 UTC34d ago | 1 | halved by day 2 | 8.6 days | 0 |
| Wed 16 Sep, 23:36 UTC41d ago | 0 | – | 7.8 days | 0 |
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 Force online, and how reliable is it?
Right now The Dark Force is running. Going by the reported uptime, it restarted roughly 3 days 16 hours ago. It stayed up 100% of the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours. Rust Charts has tracked it since 13 September 2026.
Where is The Dark Force located?
From The Dark Force, no region is published. Rust Charts doesn't look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. Connect at 168.100.161.129:28039.
Which version of Rust does The Dark Force run?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what The Dark Force runs. Joining needs the same protocol on your game; Steam handles the update.
Does The Dark Force run smoothly?
Never under 5, and 11 server fps on average, is how the last 48 hours went. Buildings, deployables and all the rest of the world came to as many as 203,327 entities. At most it took 5,243 MB of memory. Rising entity counts and low fps are the source of the lag players report.
Population
How busy is The Dark Force?
The Dark Force has 0 of its 80 slots filled right now. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it reached 2 at most. Over the past 48 hours, 16:00 UTC drew the most, at 1 players on average.
How does The Dark Force rank against other Rust servers?
The top 29% of ranked servers includes The Dark Force, at #6,406 on player hours for the last week.
Wipe days
What does wipe day look like on The Dark Force?
Its recent wipes peaked at an average of 2 players. The crowd on the latest wipe hit its peak 3 hours in. Half the peak was the floor until the next wipe in 0% of recent wipes. By day 2.5 it had fallen below half in the wipes that did not hold.
What is the wipe schedule on The Dark Force?
The wipes on The Dark Force come at irregular times, so no next one can be predicted. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC brings the next monthly force wipe, which reaches every Rust server. The world it runs now dates from 3 days 18 hours.
Rules and world
What are the rules and settings on The Dark Force?
No gather rate appears in the name The Dark Force. No group limit is published. You play survival, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. PvP is on: players fight and raid. Modded in the server browser is where it sits; plugins or settings alter the game. You will find Oxide plugins running. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is on.
Which map does The Dark Force run?
The Dark Force runs a procedural map of size 6,000 with seed 825822194, generated by the game. You can view it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed produce the same map.
Tags explained
Which Rust Charts lists and filters include The Dark Force?
The Rust Charts lists that carry The Dark Force are: Modded Rust servers. It appears under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Last wipe: In the last week.
What do the server tags on The Dark Force mean?
The game's server browser sees these tags from The Dark Force: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp80 (Max players): The server holds 80 slots; ts0 (Group limit): Team play is off; v2635 (Protocol): The server speaks protocol 2635, so your game needs the same version; cs168909 (Build): Build 168909 is what runs here; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's usual one; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code; ^o (Oxide): Plugins are handled by Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Listed as modded because plugins or settings differ from the base game. Player numbers now, queue size and world creation time sit in the tags as well, shown at the top of this page.
Join details
How do I join The Dark Force?
Enter client.connect 168.100.161.129:28039 in the console, which F1 opens once Rust is running. Launch Rust and join on this page is the other way: Rust opens through Steam and connects you.