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The Dark Carnival
Online 157.85.86.2:28015 checked 13m 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
daily · 1 is bestTop 50% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 9d 0h.
The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 9d 0hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 37d 0hThu 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
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 23:41 UTC FW25d 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.
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01COMPlayers 827/850
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02COMPlayers 57/250
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03COMPlayers 133/250
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04COMPlayers 517/575
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05COMPlayers 322/350
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06COMPlayers 233/325
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Tags
Which lists and filters on Rust Tracker show The Dark Carnival?
Community servers, no tags — the Rust Tracker lists that include The Dark Carnival. These filters surface it on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
Which tags does The Dark Carnival carry, and what do they mean?
The game's server browser reads these tags from The Dark Carnival: gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival, standard mode; mp75 (Max players): Capacity: 75 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size: 8; v2635 (Protocol): Your game must be on protocol 2635 to connect; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer — the game's standard; $r? (Region code): Region code: not set. Current players, queue length and world creation time sit in the tags as well, shown at the top of this page.
Wipe Times
What happens on The Dark Carnival on wipe day?
Recent wipes averaged a peak of 1 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked.
Which wipe times are confirmed for The Dark Carnival?
One wipe a month for The Dark Carnival: the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. This world has been running 25 days 18 hours.
Server Details
What is the uptime on The Dark Carnival, and is it online?
The Dark Carnival is up and online at this moment. By its own uptime figure, the last restart was roughly 9 hours ago. 168 of 168 hours up over the last 7 full days: 100% uptime. Rust Tracker logged it first on 13 September 2026.
What Rust version is The Dark Carnival on?
Confirmed for The Dark Carnival: Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909, Linux. Steam updates it for you; your game must share the protocol to join.
How smoothly does The Dark Carnival run?
Average server fps over the last 48 hours: 123, with a low of 103. Maximum entities carried: 119,619, from buildings and deployables to everything else. Memory peaked at 5,013 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.
What location is The Dark Carnival hosted in?
Region: none published by The Dark Carnival. The location shown by Rust Tracker is the server's own claim; no lookup of the machine's position is made. You connect at 157.85.86.2:28015.
Population
Is The Dark Carnival busy?
The Dark Carnival is at 0 players, capacity 75. Over seven days: average 0, peak 1 players. At 09:00 UTC it drew its highest average of the last 48 hours: 0 players.
Where does The Dark Carnival sit in the server rankings?
Seven-day player hours put The Dark Carnival at #11,042, within the top 50% of all ranked servers.
Settings
Which settings and rules are confirmed on The Dark Carnival?
Nothing in The Dark Carnival's name states a gather rate. 8 players per group is the game's default, and the cap holds. It runs survival, gather, build and raid: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players are on. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. On: VAC, Valve's anti-cheat.
What map is The Dark Carnival on?
Generated by the game from seed 1201455836, the procedural map on The Dark Carnival measures 4,500. Size and seed match, so the map is the same: view it on RustMaps from this page.
Connect
How do you get onto The Dark Carnival?
Open the console in Rust with F1 after starting the game, then type client.connect 157.85.86.2:28015. Alternatively, Launch Rust here opens Rust via 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.