The Dark Force
168.100.161.129:28039 checked 14m 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 35% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
no rhythm it keepsIts wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 32 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 3 Oct, 09:37 UTC11d ago | 3 | – | running | 0 |
| Thu 24 Sep, 18:41 UTC19d ago | 1 | halved by day 2 | 8.6 days | 0 |
| Wed 16 Sep, 23:36 UTC27d ago | 0 | – | 7.8 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.
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Quick answers
Rules and settings
What is the setup on The Dark Force when it comes to rules and settings?
There is no gather rate in the name The Dark Force. No group limit is published. survival is its mode, gather, build, raid: the regular game. Raiding and fighting other players are allowed. Plugins or settings change the game, and it is listed under Modded in the server browser. The plugins it runs number Oxide. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, from Valve.
Which map is active on The Dark Force?
A procedural map, size 6,000 with seed 825822194, generated by the game, is what The Dark Force runs. You can view it on RustMaps from this page, since the same size and seed give the same map.
Population
How full is The Dark Force?
The server The Dark Force is currently at 0 players out of 80 slots. Averaging 0 players over seven days, it peaked at 1.
Where does The Dark Force sit in the rankings?
For player hours over the last week, The Dark Force is #7,832, which puts it in the top 35% of all ranked servers.
Server tags
What do The Dark Force's tags indicate?
What the game's server browser gets from The Dark Force is this tag list: gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival gameplay; mp80 (Max players): Capacity: 80; ts0 (Group limit): Teams are disabled; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs166652 (Build): It runs build 166652; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is standard; $r? (Region code): There's no region code here; ^o (Oxide): Plugins run through Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Modded category: the game is altered by plugins or settings. 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 Force appear in Rust Zerg Life lists?
Modded Rust servers for clans and zergs: that is where you will find The Dark Force among the Rust Zerg Life rankings. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Server info
What is the uptime and reliability of The Dark Force?
Right now, The Dark Force is online. The uptime figure it gives suggests it restarted around 11 days 1 hours ago. Across the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours were online, which is 100%. The first time Rust Zerg Life saw it was on 13 September 2026.
What is the performance like on The Dark Force?
Over the past 48 hours, server fps averaged 5 and never dropped below 5. The world held as many as 201,259 entities, including buildings, deployables and everything else. The maximum memory it used was 6,339 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are the source of the lag players feel.
Which Rust build does The Dark Force use?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652 is what The Dark Force runs, on Linux. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam will update your game to that protocol.
What is the location of The Dark Force?
There is no region published by The Dark Force. The location shown by Rust Zerg Life is what a server says; it does not check where the machine stands. Connect to it at 168.100.161.129:28039.
Wipe schedule
What can you expect on wipe day on The Dark Force?
Across its recent wipes, the busiest times averaged 1 players. 32 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked. The crowd kept above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. If not, the crowd fell below half by day 2.
When does The Dark Force wipe?
No next wipe can be predicted for The Dark Force because it wipes at irregular times. Come Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, the monthly force wipe arrives for every Rust server. The world it is running now dates from 11 days 2 hours ago.
How to join
What is the process to join The Dark Force?
Enter client.connect 168.100.161.129:28039 in the F1 console. Another way: use Launch Rust on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
Server tags
Published as mp80,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166652,ts0,^o^z
Game
gmrust
mp80
ts0
v2634
cs166652
ptrak
$r?
Mods and access
^o
^z
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.