Online168.100.161.129:28039checked 8m ago
The Dark Force
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 35% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
no rhythm it keepsIts 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 3, 32 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 3 Oct, 09:37 UTC11d ago | 3 | – | running | 0 |
| Thu 24 Sep, 18:41 UTC19d ago | 1 | halved by day 2 | 8.6 days | 0 |
| Wed 16 Sep, 23:36 UTC27d 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.
Similar servers
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from the figures on this pageRules and settings
What are the server rules for The Dark Force?
No gather rate appears in the name of The Dark Force. A group limit is not published. The server runs survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser lists it as Modded, with plugins or settings that alter the game. Plugins: Oxide. Anti-cheat VAC from Valve is on.
What is the map on The Dark Force?
The game generates a procedural map of size 6,000 with seed 825822194 for The Dark Force. The map is identical for the same size and seed, so it can be viewed on RustMaps from this page.
Server tags
Where can The Dark Force be found in Rust Player Count lists and filters?
These Rust Player Count lists include The Dark Force: Modded Rust servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
How should you interpret the tags on The Dark Force?
These are the tags The Dark Force publishes for the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival experience; mp80 (Max players): The server has 80 slots; ts0 (Group limit): No teams on this server; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs166652 (Build): Build number: 166652; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the game's default networking; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) is in use; ^z (Modded): The Modded category: plugins or configuration change gameplay. The tags also include its current players, its queue and when its world was made, shown at the top of this page.
Player count
What is the player count on The Dark Force?
Right now, 0 players are on The Dark Force, which has 80 slots. With a peak of 1, the average over seven days is 0 players.
How does The Dark Force compare in server rankings?
Over the last seven days, The Dark Force is #7,832 for player hours, placing it in the top 35% of ranked servers.
Server details
How reliable is The Dark Force, and is it online?
Right now, The Dark Force is up. The uptime it gives suggests it restarted about 11 days 1 hours ago. In the last 7 full days, it was up for 168 of 168 hours, which is 100% uptime. Rust Player Count recorded it for the first time on 13 September 2026.
What is the Rust version for The Dark Force?
On Linux, The Dark Force runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam updates it for you.
What region does The Dark Force serve?
No region is published by The Dark Force. Rust Player Count displays the location a server claims, not the physical location of the machine. You can reach it at 168.100.161.129:28039.
How well does The Dark Force perform?
The server ran at an average of 5 fps over the last 48 hours, never falling below 5. The maximum number of entities it carried was 201,259, which includes buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory usage reached up to 6,339 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.
Wipe schedule
What changes on The Dark Force on wipe day?
Recent wipes saw an average peak of 1 players. The latest wipe saw its biggest crowd 32 hours in. Half that peak was maintained until the next wipe in 0% of recent wipes. Otherwise, it dropped below half by day 2.
When does The Dark Force wipe?
Wipes on The Dark Force come at irregular times, leaving no next wipe to forecast. Next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, the monthly force wipe applies to all Rust servers. It has been running its current world for 11 days 3 hours.
Join the server
How can I connect to The Dark Force?
Joining is done by opening the console (F1) and running client.connect 168.100.161.129:28039. 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 mp80,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166652,ts0,^o^z
Game
gmrust
mp80
ts0
v2634
cs166652
ptrak
$r?
Mods and access
^o
^z
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.