Server profile
The Dark Carnival
Online, with 0 of 75 players on; ranked #11,126 of every public Rust server, the top 50%. It last wiped 26d ago.
Online 157.85.86.2:28015 checked 1h ago
The crowd
Players
Who is on it, hour by hour and day by day.
Source: every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Note: hourly average and peak, UTC.
Note: daily average and peak, UTC.
Under the hood
Server performance
Frames per second, entities and memory, asked of the server itself.
Note: 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.
The standings
Rank
Its place among every ranked server, day by day; 1 is best.
Note: Top 50% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
The wipe cycle
Wipe schedule
Force wipes only.
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 0h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 8d 0hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 36d 0hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
The first 48 hours of its last wipesPlayers each hour, from the hour of the wipe
Note: players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 0 hours in.
The record
Wipes
Every wipe we saw, newest first.
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 23:41 UTC FW26d ago | 1 | – | running | 1 |
Note: 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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The short version
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Wipe days
What should you expect on wipe day at The Dark Carnival?
The average busiest point of its recent wipes was 1 players. The peak crowd on this wipe came 0 hours after it started.
How often does The Dark Carnival wipe, and on which day?
The only wipe on The Dark Carnival is the monthly force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. The world you are playing on now was made 26 days 18 hours ago.
About the server
Does The Dark Carnival hold a steady frame rate?
Server fps averaged 122 over 48 hours; the lowest reading was 103. At its highest the entity count reached 119,615: buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 5,013 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are what players experience as lag.
On what version does The Dark Carnival currently run?
The Rust build is network protocol 2635 and build 168909, running on Linux, for The Dark Carnival. The same protocol is required to join, and Steam takes care of updating it.
How reliable is The Dark Carnival, and is it up at the moment?
At the time of this check The Dark Carnival is online. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 9 hours ago. The last 7 full days gave 168 of 168 hours up, or 100% of the time. On 13 September 2026 is when Rust Insights first saw it.
Where does The Dark Carnival run from?
A region is not published by The Dark Carnival. The location shown on Rust Insights is the one a server states, not a lookup of where the machine sits. 157.85.86.2:28015 is where it answers.
Server tags
How should you read the tags listed for The Dark Carnival?
These tags come from The Dark Carnival and are read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as standard Rust plays; mp75 (Max players): It holds 75 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: 8 per team at most; v2635 (Protocol): Your game must run the same version to join: the protocol is 2635; cs168909 (Build): It runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): Rust's standard network layer, RakNet, carries it; $r? (Region code): A region code has not been set. Current players, queue length and the age of the world sit in the tags as well, shown at the top of this page.
Where does The Dark Carnival turn up among the Rust Insights lists and filters?
The Rust Insights lists that carry The Dark Carnival are Best Rust community servers. On the server list, the filters that surface it are Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
Player counts
How many players are on The Dark Carnival right now?
At the time of this refresh, The Dark Carnival holds 0 players on 75 slots. Over the past week it peaked at 1 and averaged 0 players.
In the ranking of Rust servers, where does The Dark Carnival place?
Player hours over seven days put The Dark Carnival at #11,126, within the top 50% of the ranked field.
Settings and rules
What are the settings and rules for The Dark Carnival?
No gather rate appears in the name of The Dark Carnival. No group limit is set, so the game's default of 8 players applies. You get survival as the game mode, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Players may raid and fight one another. You will find it listed under Community in the server browser. The server has Valve's VAC anti-cheat switched on.
Which map is live on The Dark Carnival?
Size 4,500 and seed 1201455836 define the procedural map on The Dark Carnival, generated by the game. You can look at the map on RustMaps from this page, since the same size and seed produce the same map.
How to join
How can you get onto The Dark Carnival?
Type client.connect 157.85.86.2:28015 into the console, which you open with F1 in Rust. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same job by opening Rust through Steam.