The Dark Side
Online NA · us5 91.229.114.57:28015 checked 6m 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 37% of all ranked servers, top 63% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Its wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
- usual gap
- 1.8 daysbetween real wipes
- on rhythm
- 33%of its recent wipes
- wipe-day peak
- 1players, last three wipes
- crowd held
- 0%else halves by day 1
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 1 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 OCT 2026Thu 1 Oct, 20:45 UTC FW27d ago |
1 | – | running | 0 |
25 SEP 2026Fri 25 Sep, 21:28 UTC33d ago |
1 | halved by day 1 | 6 days | 1 |
24 SEP 2026Thu 24 Sep, 01:17 UTC35d ago |
1 | – | 1.8 days | 0 |
23 SEP 2026Wed 23 Sep, 14:25 UTC35d ago |
1 | – | 0.5 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
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Settings and map
On The Dark Side, which rules and settings apply?
You will find no gather rate in the name of The Dark Side. 8 players per group is the default limit. The server runs survival, building, gathering and raiding in the standard game. Fighting and raiding other players is permitted. Plugins or settings change the game; it is listed under Modded in the server browser. Carbon plugins are run on it. VAC is on: Valve's anti-cheat is enabled.
Which map is in use on The Dark Side?
The Dark Side runs a procedural map of size 4,000 with seed 1337, generated by the game. The map can be seen on RustMaps from this page, because the same size and seed give the same map. Filed under map name: Custom Map.
Tags and filters
On Rust Server Index, which lists and filters carry The Dark Side?
These lists on Rust Server Index take The Dark Side: Modded Rust servers, filed by play style and North American Rust servers. Filed under these filters on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more.
Whose server is The Dark Side?
The same operator most likely runs The Dark Side and 18 other tracked servers, since all publish a joinmyga.me hostname.
Which tags are attached to The Dark Side, and what do they stand for?
These are the tags The Dark Side publishes; the game's server browser reads this list: gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival, as standard; mp25 (Max players): The queue ceiling sits at 25; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, the default setting; v2635 (Protocol): Your client must run protocol 2635 to connect; cs168909 (Build): The game build here is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, as standard for Rust; $rus5 (Region code): Region code on file: us5; ^z (Modded): Plugins or changed settings put this under Modded; ^y (Carbon): Carbon provides the plugin framework; NA (North America): North America is the region shown in the server browser. Current players, queue length and when the world was made appear in the tags, set out at the top of this page.
Wipe dates
How does a wipe day run on The Dark Side?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew 1 players on average. 1 hours into the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak. The crowd held above half the peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. By day 1 the crowd had fallen below half when it didn't hold.
How often is The Dark Side wiped, and on what schedule?
No next wipe can be predicted for The Dark Side: its wipes fall at irregular times. The next monthly force wipe is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, and it wipes every Rust server. Its present world dates from 27 days 4 hours.
Players and ranking
How is The Dark Side ranked compared with the rest?
The seven-day player-hours ranking places The Dark Side at #8,148 and #1,177 in North America, among the top 37% of ranked servers.
Is The Dark Side quiet or crowded?
The Dark Side is currently showing 0 players on 25 slots. Averaged across seven days: 0 players, peaking at 1. The busiest point in the last 48 hours was 12:00 UTC, averaging 0 players.
Server details
What version does The Dark Side use?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909, on Linux, is what The Dark Side runs. Steam keeps your game updated, but the protocol must match for you to join.
How reliable is The Dark Side, and is it online now?
Right now The Dark Side is up and running. About 5 days 14 hours ago, by its own uptime figure, is when it last restarted. Of the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were up, 99% of the time. The earliest sighting at Rust Server Index is 13 September 2026.
What is performance like on The Dark Side?
Averaged over the last 48 hours, server fps was 60, with a low of 60. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world came to as many as 88,916 entities. Memory use reached as much as 12,240 MB. Lag, to players, is low fps and an entity count that climbs.
What is the location of The Dark Side?
The Dark Side gives North America as its location, the tag NA and the region code us5. What Rust Server Index shows is the stated location, not the machine's actual position, which it does not look up. You will reach it at 91.229.114.57:28015.
Joining the server
What is the way onto The Dark Side?
If you would rather use the console, press F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 91.229.114.57:28015. You can also choose Launch Rust and join here; that opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
Server tags
What each one means.
Published as mp25,ptrak,$rus5,v2635,NA,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^z,^y
Game
gmrust
mp25
ts8
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$rus5
Mods and access
^z
^y
Region
NA
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.