On air · chart position #8,524
The Dark Side
Online NA · us5 91.229.114.57:28015 checked 10m ago
Players
The Dark Side
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 38% of all ranked servers, top 64% in NA. 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 1, 1 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 20:45 UTC FW28d ago | 1 | – | running | 0 |
| Fri 25 Sep, 21:28 UTC34d ago | 1 | halved by day 1 | 6 days | 1 |
| Thu 24 Sep, 01:17 UTC35d ago | 1 | – | 1.8 days | 0 |
| Wed 23 Sep, 14:25 UTC36d ago | 1 | – | 0.5 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
Host and version
Is The Dark Side online, and how reliable is it?
The Dark Side is up as you read this. The uptime it reports puts its last restart about 10 minutes ago. Of the past 7 full days it was running for 143 of 168 hours, or 85% of the time. The first record Rust Charts holds of it is 13 September 2026.
Where is The Dark Side located?
In North America, according to its NA tag, sits The Dark Side, with region code us5. Rust Charts shows the location a server claims, not where the machine actually is. Connect at 91.229.114.57:28015.
Which version of Rust does The Dark Side run?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what The Dark Side runs. Your game must match the protocol to get in, and Steam keeps it updated for you.
Does The Dark Side run smoothly?
The 48-hour average was 60 server fps; the lowest point was 60. At its fullest it held 88,423 entities: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Memory use peaked at 12,240 MB. What players feel as lag comes from low fps and an entity count on the rise.
Player counts
How busy is The Dark Side?
Right now 0 players are on The Dark Side, out of 25 slots. Over the last week it averaged 0 players; the high point was 1.
How does The Dark Side rank against other Rust servers?
The last seven days of player hours put The Dark Side at #8,524, top 38% of ranked servers, and #1,195 in North America.
Wipes and resets
What does wipe day look like on The Dark Side?
At their busiest, its recent wipes averaged 1 players. The crowd on the latest wipe hit its peak 1 hours in. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. By day 1 it had fallen below half in the wipes that did not hold.
What is the wipe schedule on The Dark Side?
The wipes on The Dark Side 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 28 days 3 hours.
Rules and world
What are the rules and settings on The Dark Side?
You will not find a gather rate in the name The Dark Side. The default group size of 8 players applies here. 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. The plugins it runs number Carbon. Valve's VAC anti-cheat is active.
Which map does The Dark Side run?
A procedural map of size 4,000 with seed 1337, generated by the game, is what The Dark Side runs. From this page you can look at it on RustMaps; the same size and seed make the same map. You will see the map name as: Custom Map.
Tag guide
Who runs The Dark Side?
A shared operator is likely for The Dark Side and 18 other tracked servers, all publishing a joinmyga.me hostname.
Which Rust Charts lists and filters include The Dark Side?
These Rust Charts lists include The Dark Side: Modded Rust servers and Region: North America. These filters on the server list bring it up: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more.
What do the server tags on The Dark Side mean?
gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival rules apply; mp25 (Max players): The server holds 25 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, as the game ships it; v2635 (Protocol): Your game must run protocol 2635 to get in; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, the game's default; $rus5 (Region code): us5 is the region code recorded for this server; ^z (Modded): Plugins or changed settings put this server under Modded; ^y (Carbon): Plugins run on Carbon here; NA (North America): The server browser files this one under North America — that's the set of tags The Dark Side publishes for the server browser. The tags also carry the current player count, the queue and when the world was made. You'll find them at the top of this page.
How to join
How do I join The Dark Side?
The console is behind F1 in Rust: enter client.connect 91.229.114.57:28015 there. Or join on this page with Launch Rust, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.