The Dark Carnival
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
Top 42% 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 13h. The force wipe · high confidence
- wipe-day peak
- 1 players, last three wipes
Coming wipes
- 22d 13hThu 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 UTCFW 12d 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.
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Quick answers
Population
How busy is The Dark Carnival?
The current population of The Dark Carnival is 0 out of 75 slots. A seven-day average of 0 players, with a peak of 1. Over the past 48 hours, the peak period was 00:00 UTC with an average of 0 players.
How does The Dark Carnival rank against other Rust servers?
For player hours in the last seven days, The Dark Carnival holds rank #9,408 and is in the top 42% of all ranked servers.
Wipe schedule
What does wipe day look like on The Dark Carnival?
Its recent wipes drew an average busiest crowd of 1 players. The crowd reaches its peak 0 hours after the latest wipe.
What is the wipe schedule on The Dark Carnival?
A single monthly wipe, the force wipe, is all The Dark Carnival runs. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the next wipe arrives: the force wipe, when all Rust servers wipe. 12 days 6 hours ago the current world was made.
Server
Is The Dark Carnival online, and how reliable is it?
Right now The Dark Carnival is up and online. It reports an uptime that puts the last restart at about 21 hours ago. In the last 7 full days, it was up for 168 of 168 hours, or 100% of the time. When Is Wipe has tracked it since 13 September 2026.
Performance of The Dark Carnival: does it run smoothly?
The last 48 hours saw an average of 107 server fps and a low of 35. At its peak it held 118,360 entities, which covers buildings, deployables and all other objects in the world. The peak memory usage was 4,371 MB. Low fps together with an increasing entity count is what players call lag.
Which version of Rust does The Dark Carnival run?
On The Dark Carnival, the Rust version is network protocol 2634 and build 167584 and the OS is Linux. Joining needs the same protocol version; Steam handles that update for you.
Where is The Dark Carnival located?
There is no region published for The Dark Carnival. What When Is Wipe 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.
Tags, lists
Which When Is Wipe lists include The Dark Carnival? And filters?
These When Is Wipe lists include The Dark Carnival: Community Rust servers. 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.
What do the server tags on The Dark Carnival mean?
These are the tags The Dark Carnival publishes, read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival is the game mode; mp75 (Max players): Capacity is 75 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, as shipped by default; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version has to be on protocol 2634 to connect; cs167584 (Build): Build 167584; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, Rust's default; $r? (Region code): The server has no region code. Also in the tags, and displayed at the top of this page, are its players now, its queue and when its world was made.
Rules, map
What rules does The Dark Carnival enforce? And settings?
No gather rate appears in The Dark Carnival's name. Under the default setting, groups are limited to 8 players. The game mode for this server is survival, standard survival: gathering, building, raiding. You can fight and raid other players. This is a community server, in the Community list. Anti-cheat VAC from Valve is on.
Which map does The Dark Carnival run?
A procedural map, size 4,500 with seed 1201455836, is used by The Dark Carnival; the game generates it. The map is fixed by size and seed; view it on RustMaps from this page.
How to join
How do I join The Dark Carnival?
Press F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 157.85.86.2:28015 in the console. You can also use Launch Rust here, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
Server tags
Published as mp75,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167584,ts8
Game
gmrust- Game mode Standard survival is the game mode.
mp75- Max players Capacity is 75 slots.
ts8- Group limit Teams are capped at 8, as shipped by default.
v2634- Protocol Your game version has to be on protocol 2634 to connect.
cs167584- Build Build 167584.
ptrak- Networking The network layer is RakNet, Rust's default.
$r?- Region code The server has no region code.
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.