The Dark Carnival
157.85.86.2:28015 checked 8m 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 42% 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 22d 15h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
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 FW12d 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
Quick answers
Server rules
What settings does The Dark Carnival run?
No gather rate appears in the name The Dark Carnival. Up to 8 players can group, which is the game's default. It runs survival, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Raiding and fighting other players are allowed. Community is its section in the server browser. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.
Which map is active on The Dark Carnival?
The game generates the procedural map of size 4,500 on The Dark Carnival with seed 1201455836. From this page, RustMaps can show it: size and seed produce the same map each time.
Server population
What is the population like on The Dark Carnival?
Right now, 0 players are on The Dark Carnival, which has 75 slots. Its weekly average is 0 players and its highest point was 1. The busiest time in the last 48 hours was 00:00 UTC, when it averaged 0 players.
What is The Dark Carnival's ranking?
In the top 42% of ranked servers, The Dark Carnival holds #9,399 for player hours over the last seven days.
Tags and filters
How should you read the tags on The Dark Carnival?
The game's server browser reads these tags from The Dark Carnival: gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival gameplay; mp75 (Max players): The server has 75 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams max out at 8—the default setting for Rust; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634—only players on that version can get in; cs167584 (Build): It runs build 167584; ptrak (Networking): Standard RakNet networking is in use here; $r? (Region code): Region code left unset. At the top of this page you see its players now, its queue and the time its world was made, which are in the tags too.
Where does The Dark Carnival appear in Rust Zerg Life lists?
Rust community servers for clans: that is where you will find The Dark Carnival among the Rust Zerg Life rankings. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
About the server
How reliable is The Dark Carnival, and is it up?
The Dark Carnival is up and running as you read this. It reports an uptime that puts the last restart at roughly 19 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time across the last 7 full days: 168 of 168 hours. Its first appearance in Rust Zerg Life records is 13 September 2026.
What is the performance like on The Dark Carnival?
It averaged 108 server fps over the last 48 hours, and the lowest it got was 35. It reached a maximum of 118,360 entities, covering buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. At its highest, memory usage hit 4,287 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is caused by low fps and an increasing number of entities.
What version is The Dark Carnival using?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167584 is what The Dark Carnival runs, on Linux. You can only join if your game uses the same protocol, and Steam takes care of updating it.
What is the location of The Dark Carnival?
No region is published by The Dark Carnival. Rust Zerg Life displays the location a server claims, not where the machine actually stands. You can reach it at 157.85.86.2:28015.
Wipe days
What can you expect on wipe day on The Dark Carnival?
Across its recent wipes, the busiest times averaged 1 players. On the latest wipe, 0 hours after the wipe, the crowd hit its peak.
When does The Dark Carnival wipe?
The force wipe is the only wipe for The Dark Carnival, coming once a month. Its next wipe falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC with the force wipe, which every Rust server takes. 12 days 3 hours ago is when its present world was created.
Join the server
What is the process to join The Dark Carnival?
Join by entering client.connect 157.85.86.2:28015 in the console (press F1 first). Or use Launch Rust on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
Server tags
Published as mp75,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167584,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp75
ts8
v2634
cs167584
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.