Dark Light
Offline 157.228.152.22:28015 checked 13d ago
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. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 70% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
- usual gap
- 5.8 daysbetween real wipes
- wipe-day peak
- 0players, last three wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 35 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
14 OCT 2026Wed 14 Oct, 08:04 UTC14d ago |
0 | – | running | 1 |
8 OCT 2026Thu 8 Oct, 12:28 UTC20d ago |
1 | – | 5.8 days | 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
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Map and rules
What settings and rules does Dark Light run?
No gather rate appears in the name Dark Light. The default group limit of 8 players applies. The server runs survival, gather, build and raid: the standard game. Fighting and raiding other players is permitted. The server browser lists it under Modded; plugins or settings alter the game. Filed under plugins: Carbon. The server has VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, turned on.
Which map is in use on Dark Light?
Dark Light runs a procedural map, which the game generates.
Tags
Where does Dark Light appear among the Rust Server Index lists and filters?
The Rust Server Index lists that include Dark Light are Modded Rust servers, filed by play style. It appears under the following filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more.
How should you read the tags listed for Dark Light?
These are the tags Dark Light publishes; the game's server browser reads this list: gmrust (Game mode): Survival on standard Rust rules; mp120 (Max players): 120 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, the default setting; v2634 (Protocol): The protocol is 2634; older or newer clients cannot join; cs167231 (Build): The game build here is 167231; ptrak (Networking): Networking runs on RakNet, the game's default layer; $r? (Region code): The region code field is left empty; ^z (Modded): This one is Modded, since plugins or settings change how it plays; ^y (Carbon): Plugins run through Carbon. The top of this page shows three items from the tags: players at present, queue and world creation time.
Wipe schedule
How does a wipe day run on Dark Light?
The average peak across its recent wipes is 0 players. 35 hours into the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak.
Which wipe timetable does Dark Light follow?
Dark Light's rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of its wipes are on record. The next monthly force wipe is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, and it wipes every Rust server. 14 days 20 hours is when its current world was made.
Player counts
Where does Dark Light sit in the rankings?
The seven-day player-hours ranking places Dark Light at #15,088, among the top 70% of ranked servers.
How many players are on Dark Light at the moment?
Filed under offline: Dark Light, last seen 13 days 9 hours ago.
Server facts
What Rust version is Dark Light on?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167231 on Windows is what you will find on Dark Light. To join you need the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Is Dark Light reachable, and does it stay up?
Last seen 13 days 9 hours ago, Dark Light is offline right now. Uptime for the last 7 full days came to 0%, 0 hours out of 168. The earliest sighting at Rust Server Index is 8 October 2026.
Which region is Dark Light in?
No region is published by Dark Light. No lookup of the machine's position is made by Rust Server Index; it shows where the server says it is. Connection details: 157.228.152.22:28015.
Connecting
What steps lead onto Dark Light?
Two ways in. Type client.connect 157.228.152.22:28015 into the Rust console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust and join on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
Server tags
What each one means.
Published as mp120,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167231,ts8,^z,^y
Game
gmrust
mp120
ts8
v2634
cs167231
ptrak
$r?
Mods and access
^z
^y
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.