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The Dark Carnival

Online 157.85.86.2:28015 checked 6m ago

Stats

Players
0/ 75
0% full
Slots
75open
75 max players
7-day avg
0
7-day average · peak 1
FPS
93
server frames a second, the latest hour; the bar fills at 60
Uptime
18h 01m
since its last restart; the bar fills at a day
Rank
#11,054
top 50%
Last wipe · new game
27d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe · continue?
7d 16h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW

Players

AveragePeak
0123403:0012:0021:0006:0015:0001:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

05010015020003:0012:0021:0006:0015:0001:00

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 best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k20 Sep2 Oct9 Oct15 Oct22 Oct29 Oct

Top 50% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 16h. The force wipe · high confidence

1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 16h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
35d 16h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 0 hours in.

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 23:41 UTC FW27d 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
Rusty Moose |EU Mondays|
EU · groups of 12+ · weekly · 555 on average
161 / 250
Rustoria.co - EU East Long
EU · groups of 12+ · monthly · 319 on average
97 / 200
Rusty Moose |EU Main|
EU · groups of 12+ · weekly · 291 on average
15 / 250
Rustoria.co - EU Main
EU · groups of 16+ · weekly · 286 on average
16 / 250
Rustafied.com - EU Friday
EU · groups of 16+ · weekly · 274 on average
14 / 100
Rustoria.co - EU East Medium
EU · groups of 12+ · biweekly · 250 on average
17 / 200

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Rules and settings

Which map is loaded on The Dark Carnival?

The game generates a procedural map for The Dark Carnival: size 4,500, seed 1201455836. Same size, same seed, same map, viewable on RustMaps from this page.

What are the rules and settings on The Dark Carnival?

The Dark Carnival says nothing in its name about a gather rate. 8 players is the group cap, unchanged from the game's default. gather, build and raid in the standard game: that is survival. Raids and player combat are part of the game. Community is its browser listing. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.

Wipe schedule

What is the wipe schedule on The Dark Carnival?

Once a month The Dark Carnival wipes, and the force wipe is the occasion. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, the same date every Rust server wipes. The world it runs now dates from 27 days 3 hours.

What happens on The Dark Carnival when wipe day arrives?

The average peak across its recent wipes is 1 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd was at its highest.

Tag guide

What do the server tags on The Dark Carnival mean?

Read by the game's server browser, gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp75 (Max players): It holds 75 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default cap of 8 per team applies here; v2635 (Protocol): Join only if your game is on protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): It runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the game's standard network layer, and it is what runs here; $r? (Region code): No region code is set are listed under The Dark Carnival. Player count now, queue length and world creation time sit at the top of this page, taken from the tags.

Which Rust Leaderboard lists and filters include The Dark Carnival?

These Rust Leaderboard lists count The Dark Carnival among them: Best Rust community servers. You can find it through these server list filters: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.

About the server

Which Rust version is The Dark Carnival running?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is the version The Dark Carnival runs. Steam updates your game so it sits on the same protocol needed to join.

Is The Dark Carnival online right now, and how steady has it been?

Right now the lights are on at The Dark Carnival. About 18 hours ago is when it last restarted, judged by the uptime it reports. The last 7 full days saw it online for 167 of 168 hours, 99% of the time. 13 September 2026 is when Rust Leaderboard first logged it.

How well does The Dark Carnival perform?

Averaged over the last 48 hours, server fps was 120, with a low of 84. Buildings, deployables and all the rest of the world took the entity count as high as 119,615. Memory use peaked at 5,252 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are the lag players actually notice.

Where in the world is The Dark Carnival hosted?

No region is published by The Dark Carnival. Rust Leaderboard shows the location a server claims and does not look up the machine's real position. You will find it at 157.85.86.2:28015.

Population

Where does The Dark Carnival sit on the leaderboard?

Player hours over seven days put The Dark Carnival at #11,054, among the top 50% of ranked servers.

How many players are on The Dark Carnival right now?

0 players fill 75 slots on The Dark Carnival right now. Its average over the past week is 0 players, peaking at 1.

Connect

How do I join The Dark Carnival?

In the Rust console (F1) enter client.connect 157.85.86.2:28015. Launch Rust from this page instead and it opens the game through Steam and joins for you.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp75,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp75
Max players It holds 75 slots.
ts8
Group limit The default cap of 8 per team applies here.
v2635
Protocol Join only if your game is on protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build It runs game build 168909.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the game's standard network layer, and it is what runs here.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

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.