The Dark Carnival
Online 157.85.86.2:28015 checked 12m 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, measured since 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 50% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 6h. The force wipe · high confidence
- wipe-day peak
- 1players, last three wipes
Coming wipes
- in 8d 6hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- in 36d 6hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
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
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 OCT 2026Thu 1 Oct, 23:41 UTC FW26d 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
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Map and rules
Where can you read the rules and settings that apply on The Dark Carnival?
No gather rate appears in the name The Dark Carnival. The default group limit of 8 players applies. The server runs survival, building, gathering and raiding in the standard game. Fighting and raiding other players is permitted. It is listed under Community in the server browser and is a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What is the map on The Dark Carnival?
Generated by the game, the procedural map of The Dark Carnival has size 4,500 and seed 1201455836. You can view the map on RustMaps from this page, as the same size and seed give the same map.
Lists and filters
Where does The Dark Carnival appear among the Rust Server Index lists and filters?
Filed under these Rust Server Index lists is The Dark Carnival: Community Rust servers, indexed. Filed under these filters on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
How should you read the tags listed for The Dark Carnival?
Filed under these tags, as published by The Dark Carnival and read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival, as standard; mp75 (Max players): Player cap: 75; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, the default setting; v2635 (Protocol): Your client must run protocol 2635 to connect; cs168909 (Build): Build on file: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The standard RakNet layer carries the connection; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set. The top of this page shows three items from the tags: players at present, queue and world creation time.
Wipe dates
How does a wipe day run on The Dark Carnival?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew 1 players on average. The latest wipe peaked 0 hours in.
How often is The Dark Carnival wiped, and on what schedule?
The only wipe on The Dark Carnival is the monthly force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes its next wipe: the force wipe, taken by every Rust server. 26 days 12 hours is when its current world was made.
Player counts
Where does The Dark Carnival sit in the rankings?
Filed under rankings: #11,110 for The Dark Carnival on seven-day player hours, top 50% overall.
How many players are on The Dark Carnival at the moment?
The live count for The Dark Carnival stands at 0 players, out of 75 slots. Averaged across seven days: 0 players, peaking at 1.
Operator and status
What version does The Dark Carnival use?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what you will find on The Dark Carnival. The protocol must match before you can join, and Steam takes care of updating it.
How reliable is The Dark Carnival, and is it online now?
Right now The Dark Carnival is up and running. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 4 hours ago. Uptime for the last 7 full days came to 100%, 168 hours out of 168. On 13 September 2026 it was first seen by Rust Server Index.
Is the performance on The Dark Carnival good?
The last 48 hours give an average of 124 server fps and a floor of 103. The entity count reached 119,615, covering buildings, deployables and all else in the world. The peak memory figure stood at 5,013 MB. What players feel as lag is low fps together with a rising entity count.
Which region is The Dark Carnival in?
No region is published by The Dark Carnival. No lookup of the machine's position is made by Rust Server Index; it shows where the server says it is. Connection details: 157.85.86.2:28015.
Connecting
How can you connect to The Dark Carnival?
Enter client.connect 157.85.86.2:28015 in the console, opened with F1. Or join on this page with Launch Rust, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
Server tags
What each one means.
Published as mp75,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp75
ts8
v2635
cs168909
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.