RS-8832Community server
The Dark Carnival
Online 157.85.86.2:28015 checked 7m 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 39% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 22d 22h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- T− 22d 22hThu 5 Nov, 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
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 23:41 UTC FW11d 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.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Player count
How populated is The Dark Carnival?
The Dark Carnival is showing 0 players on 75 slots right now. Its seven-day average is 0 players, with a peak of 1. The busiest point in the last 48 hours was 00:00 UTC, when it averaged 0 players.
How is The Dark Carnival ranked?
The last seven days of player hours place The Dark Carnival at #8,832, in the top 39% of ranked servers.
Tags and filters
Where does The Dark Carnival appear among the Top Rust Servers lists and filters?
These Top Rust Servers lists include The Dark Carnival: Best Rust community servers. It appears under these filters 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.
What is the meaning of the tags on The Dark Carnival?
Published by The Dark Carnival for the game's server browser to read: gmrust (Game mode): Survival follows the standard Rust ruleset; mp75 (Max players): There are 75 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on protocol 2634; cs167584 (Build): The game build is 167584; ptrak (Networking): This uses RakNet, Rust's default network layer; $r? (Region code): No region code is assigned. At the top of this page you also see its players now, its queue, and the time its world was made, taken from the tags.
Settings and map
What is the map on The Dark Carnival?
The Dark Carnival runs a procedural map of size 4,500 with seed 1201455836, generated by the game. Viewing it on RustMaps is possible from this page: the same size and seed give the same map.
Which settings and rules apply on The Dark Carnival?
You will not find a gather rate in the name The Dark Carnival. Up to 8 players per group, as the game defaults. It runs survival, standard survival: gathering, building and raiding. Combat and raiding between players are allowed. The server browser shows it under Community. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
Server info
What version is The Dark Carnival running?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167584 is what The Dark Carnival runs, on Linux. The protocol must match for you to join; Steam will update your game.
How well does The Dark Carnival perform?
Over the last two days, it ran at an average of 111 server fps, minimum 35. Its entity count reached 118,360, including buildings, deployables and all other objects. Memory usage peaked at 4,221 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are the source of the lag players feel.
What is the server location for The Dark Carnival?
No region is published by The Dark Carnival. What Top Rust Servers shows is where a server says it is, not where the machine stands, which it does not look up. 157.85.86.2:28015 is its address.
How reliable is The Dark Carnival?
The server The Dark Carnival is currently online. Going by its reported uptime, it restarted about 12 hours ago. It spent 168 of the last 168 hours online across 7 days, giving 100% uptime. The first time Top Rust Servers saw it was on 13 September 2026.
Wipe cycle
What happens on wipe day on The Dark Carnival?
Across recent wipes, the busiest times averaged 1 players. The peak of the latest wipe came 0 hours after it began.
On what schedule does The Dark Carnival wipe?
A single monthly wipe, the force wipe, is all The Dark Carnival does. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives, which is the next wipe for this server and all Rust servers. Its world was last replaced 11 days 20 hours ago.
Joining the server
What are the steps to join The Dark Carnival?
To connect manually, open the console with F1 and type client.connect 157.85.86.2:28015. Or click Launch Rust on this page to open Rust through Steam and connect directly.