The Dark Force
168.100.161.129:28039 checked 12m 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 35% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Its wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
- usual gap
- 8.2 days between real wipes
- on rhythm
- 100% of its recent wipes
- wipe-day peak
- 1 players, last three wipes
- crowd held
- 0% else halves by day 2
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
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 3 Oct, 09:37 UTC 10d ago | 3 | – | running | 0 |
| Thu 24 Sep, 18:41 UTC 19d ago | 1 | halved by day 2 | 8.6 days | 0 |
| Wed 16 Sep, 23:36 UTC 27d 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
Population
How busy is The Dark Force?
The Dark Force is holding 0 of its 80 slots at the moment. The past seven days show 0 players on average and 1 at peak.
How does The Dark Force rank against other Rust servers?
By player hours over the last seven days, The Dark Force ranks #7,845 worldwide and sits in the top 35% of all ranked servers.
Wipe times
What does wipe day look like on The Dark Force?
Its recent wipes drew an average busiest crowd of 1 players. On the latest wipe, 32 hours passed before the crowd peaked. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. If it did not hold, that half mark was passed by day 2.
What is the wipe schedule on The Dark Force?
No next wipe can be predicted for The Dark Force, which wipes at irregular times. The monthly force wipe, next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, wipes every Rust server. The map has been running for 10 days 21 hours.
Server details
Is The Dark Force online, and how reliable is it?
Live status for The Dark Force: online. The uptime it reports indicates a restart about 10 days 19 hours ago. 168 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, 100% uptime. Its first appearance in When Is Wipe data was 13 September 2026.
Performance of The Dark Force: does it run smoothly?
The last 48 hours saw an average of 5 server fps and a low of 5. The highest entity count was 201,259, including buildings, deployables and everything else. It went as high as 6,339 MB of memory. Low fps together with an increasing entity count is what players call lag.
Which version of Rust does The Dark Force run?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652 on Linux is what The Dark Force runs. Joining needs the same protocol version; Steam handles that update for you.
Where is The Dark Force located?
There is no region published for The Dark Force. What When Is Wipe shows is where a server says it is, not where the machine stands, which it does not look up. 168.100.161.129:28039 is its address.
Lists and tags
Which When Is Wipe lists include The Dark Force? And filters?
Best modded Rust servers are the When Is Wipe lists that The Dark Force fits. It appears under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
What do the server tags on The Dark Force mean?
gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival is the game mode; mp80 (Max players): Capacity is 80 slots; ts0 (Group limit): This server has teams turned off; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version has to be on protocol 2634 to connect; cs166652 (Build): Build 166652; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer in use here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): The server has no region code; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework here is Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Plugins or modified settings put this server in the Modded section are the tags The Dark Force publishes, and the game's server browser reads them. Also in the tags, and displayed at the top of this page, are its players now, its queue and when its world was made.
Map and rules
What rules does The Dark Force enforce? And settings?
The name of The Dark Force does not state a gather rate. The group limit is not published. gather, build and raid, as standard That is the game mode: survival. PvP and raiding are enabled. In the Modded list, the game is changed by plugins or settings. Plugins: Oxide. VAC is on.
Which map does The Dark Force run?
A procedural map, size 6,000 with seed 825822194, is used by The Dark Force; the game generates it. With the same size and seed, the map is identical and can be seen on RustMaps from here.
How to join
How do I join The Dark Force?
Open Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 168.100.161.129:28039 in the console. Alternatively, use Launch Rust on this page to open the game via Steam and connect.
Server tags
Published as mp80,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166652,ts0,^o^z
Game
gmrust- Game mode Standard survival is the game mode.
mp80- Max players Capacity is 80 slots.
ts0- Group limit This server has teams turned off.
v2634- Protocol Your game version has to be on protocol 2634 to connect.
cs166652- Build Build 166652.
ptrak- Networking RakNet is the network layer in use here, as standard for the game.
$r?- Region code The server has no region code.
Mods and access
^o- Oxide The plugin framework here is Oxide (uMod).
^z- Modded Plugins or modified settings put this server in the Modded section.
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.