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The Dark Carnival
Online 157.85.86.2:28015 checked 10m ago
- Last week
- No. 11,682
- Peak
- No. 5,406
- Days on chart
- 34
Rank
- 25 Sep11,407
- 7 Oct7,854
- 14 Oct9,298
- 21 Oct11,682
- now11,066
Top 50% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
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.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 13h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 8d 13hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 36d 13hThu 3 Dec, 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 FW26d 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
- 1 Rusty Moose |EU Mondays| 237/ 275
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- 3 Rusty Moose |EU Main| 18/ 250
- 4 Rustoria.co - EU East Long 161/ 200
- 5 Rustoria.co - EU East Medium 63/ 200
- 6 Rustafied.com - EU Friday 31/ 100
Quick answers
Reset schedule
What happens on wipe day at The Dark Carnival?
Averaged over its recent wipes, the crowd reached 1 at the peak. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.
On what schedule does The Dark Carnival wipe?
Once a month, with the force wipe, The Dark Carnival wipes. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, and that is its next wipe. 26 days 5 hours is how long the current world has been up.
Tags
Where does The Dark Carnival appear in Rust Server Rank lists and filters?
These Rust Server Rank lists include The Dark Carnival: Rust community servers, charted. You can find it on the server list by applying these filters: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
What is meant by the tags on The Dark Carnival?
Here are the tags The Dark Carnival publishes, read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp75 (Max players): It holds 75 players; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game default: 8 to a team; v2635 (Protocol): To join, run the same version: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Build number: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code is set here. The tags also hold the players on now, the queue and the world's creation time, all displayed at the top of this page.
Rules, map and settings
Which map is in play on The Dark Carnival?
A procedural map of size 4,500 with seed 1201455836 is what The Dark Carnival runs, generated by the game. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed give the same map.
What rules apply on The Dark Carnival, and what settings does it use?
The name of The Dark Carnival does not state a gather rate. The game's default applies: groups of up to 8 players. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. Raiding and fighting other players are both possible. The server browser lists it under Community: a community server. Valve's VAC anti-cheat is switched on.
About the server
Which Rust build is The Dark Carnival running?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version, Linux the system, and The Dark Carnival the server. The same protocol is required to join, and Steam takes care of the update.
How dependable is The Dark Carnival, and is it online?
Right now The Dark Carnival is up and taking players. Its own uptime figure puts the last restart at roughly 21 hours ago. 168 of 168 hours is 100% of the time over the last 7 full days. The first sighting here was on 13 September 2026, logged by Rust Server Rank.
Is The Dark Carnival smooth to play on?
Never below 103, it averaged 124 server fps across the last 48 hours. Up to 119,619 entities sat in the world: buildings, deployables and the rest. At its highest, memory use hit 5,013 MB. Lag, to players, is those two things together: low fps and a rising entity count.
Where does The Dark Carnival sit?
No region is published by The Dark Carnival. What Rust Server Rank shows is where a server says it is, not where the machine stands, which it does not look up. You'll find it at 157.85.86.2:28015.
Player count
What kind of population does The Dark Carnival carry?
Right now 0 players are on The Dark Carnival, with 75 slots in total. It peaked at 1 players in the last seven days, averaging 0. Its busiest hour in the last 48 hours was 09:00 UTC, when it averaged 0 players.
What position does The Dark Carnival hold among Rust servers?
Over the last seven days, The Dark Carnival has clocked the player hours that put it at #11,076, inside the top 50% of all ranked servers.
How to join
How do you get into The Dark Carnival?
You can type client.connect 157.85.86.2:28015 into the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust on this page to open Rust through Steam and connect.