Online157.85.86.2:28015checked 9m ago
The Dark Carnival
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 42% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 22d 2h. 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
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 23:41 UTC FW12d 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.
Similar servers
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What are the server rules for The Dark Carnival?
A gather rate is absent from the name of The Dark Carnival. Groups are capped at 8 players, the default in the game. The server runs survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Under Community in the server browser, it is a community server. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.
Which map is running on The Dark Carnival?
A procedural map of size 4,500 is what The Dark Carnival runs, generated by the game with seed 1201455836. The map is identical for the same size and seed, so it can be viewed on RustMaps from this page.
Tags, lists and filters
Where can The Dark Carnival be found in Rust Player Count lists and filters?
The Rust Player Count lists that The Dark Carnival fits are: Best Rust PvE servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
What is the meaning of the tags on The Dark Carnival?
For the game's server browser, The Dark Carnival publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as standard in Rust; mp75 (Max players): The server has 75 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, which is what the game sets by default; v2634 (Protocol): Joining requires the same protocol: 2634; cs167781 (Build): It runs on game build 167781; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard one; $r? (Region code): The region code field is empty. At the top of this page, its tags show its current players, queue and world creation time as well.
Player numbers
How full is The Dark Carnival?
Right now, 0 players are on The Dark Carnival, which has 75 slots. With a peak of 1, the average over seven days is 0 players. The busiest time in the last 48 hours was 00:00 UTC, with an average of 0 players.
How does The Dark Carnival compare in server rankings?
For player hours in the last seven days, The Dark Carnival ranks #9,333 and is in the top 42% of all ranked servers.
Server details
What is the online status and reliability of The Dark Carnival?
The Dark Carnival is currently online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 8 hours ago. In the last 7 full days, it was up for 168 of 168 hours, which is 100% uptime. 13 September 2026 is when Rust Player Count first saw it.
What Rust version is used on The Dark Carnival?
On Linux, The Dark Carnival runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. The protocol has to match for you to join, but Steam updates it without any action from you.
What region does The Dark Carnival serve?
No region is published by The Dark Carnival. Rust Player Count displays the location a server claims, not the physical location of the machine. You can reach it at 157.85.86.2:28015.
What is the performance like on The Dark Carnival?
Over the last 48 hours, the average server fps was 110, and it never dropped below 45. The maximum number of entities it carried was 118,378, which includes buildings, deployables and everything else. At its highest, it used 4,445 MB of memory. Lag, as players experience it, is caused by low fps and increasing entities.
Wipe schedule
What happens on The Dark Carnival when a wipe occurs?
Recent wipes saw an average peak of 1 players. The latest wipe saw its biggest crowd 0 hours in.
How often does The Dark Carnival wipe?
The only wipes for The Dark Carnival are monthly, tied to the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives as its next wipe, wiping all Rust servers. The world in play was created 12 days 16 hours ago.
How to join
What steps are needed to join The Dark Carnival?
Joining is done by opening the console (F1) and running client.connect 157.85.86.2:28015. Another way is the Launch Rust option on this page, which uses Steam to start Rust and put you in.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished as mp75,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp75
ts8
v2634
cs167781
ptrak
$r?
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.