Online 157.85.86.2:28015 checked 2h ago
The Dark Carnival
By the numbersMatch stats
against its 75 slotsThe story of the match
Players, performance and rank, hour by hour and day by day.
CrowdPlayers
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
FitnessServer 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.
FormRank
daily · 1 is bestTop 50% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
FixturesWipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipeThursday 5 November, 19:00 UTCin 7d 23h The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 7d 23hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 35d 23hThu 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.
ResultsWipes
newest first| 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
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
About the server
Is The Dark Carnival online, and how reliable is it?
The lights are on at The Dark Carnival: online as you read this. The reported uptime puts the last restart at roughly 9 hours ago. The last 7 full days put it at 168 of 168 hours up, 100% uptime. On 13 September 2026, Rust Player Stats saw it for the first time.
Does The Dark Carnival run smoothly?
123 server fps on average over 48 hours, and never under 105. Its entity count reached 119,615: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. 5,013 MB of memory was the high point. A climbing entity count plus low fps: that is lag, as players experience it.
Which Rust version is The Dark Carnival on?
On Linux, The Dark Carnival runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. To get in, your game needs the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Where is The Dark Carnival located?
There is no region published on The Dark Carnival. Rust Player Stats takes the server's word on where it is and does not look up the machine's real location. 157.85.86.2:28015 is the address.
Lists and filters
What do the server tags on The Dark Carnival mean?
gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp75 (Max players): It holds 75 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, the game default; v2635 (Protocol): Your game must be on protocol 2635 to get in; cs168909 (Build): It runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard one; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank are the tags The Dark Carnival publishes, and the game's server browser reads them. At the top of this page the tags give you its players right now, its queue and the date its world was created.
Which Rust Player Stats lists and filters include The Dark Carnival?
You will find The Dark Carnival on the following Rust Player Stats lists: Community servers, ranked live. Under the server list's filters it appears in: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
Server rules
Which map is running on The Dark Carnival?
The Dark Carnival runs a game-generated procedural map: size 4,500, seed 1201455836. Same size, same seed, same map, so RustMaps shows it from this page.
What are the rules and settings on The Dark Carnival?
Nothing in the name of The Dark Carnival states a gather rate. Up to 8 players to a group, which is the default. build, gather and raid in the standard game: that is the survival game mode. PvP is on, and so is raiding. Community is its server browser category. VAC is on, so Valve's anti-cheat is watching.
Player counts
What is the population on The Dark Carnival at the moment?
The board shows The Dark Carnival at 0 players, with 75 slots in total. The seven-day average sits at 0 players; the peak reached 1.
Where does The Dark Carnival sit in the rankings?
Player hours over seven days place The Dark Carnival at #11,113, among the top 50% of ranked servers.
Wipe days
What is the wipe schedule on The Dark Carnival?
The force wipe is the only wipe for The Dark Carnival, once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe comes, and that is its next wipe, when every Rust server wipes. 26 days 19 hours ago, its current world was made.
What does wipe day look like on The Dark Carnival?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew 1 players on average. The crowd reached its peak 0 hours after the latest wipe.
Joining the server
How do I join The Dark Carnival?
Console route: F1 in Rust, then client.connect 157.85.86.2:28015. Or use Launch Rust here, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
GlossaryServer tags
what each one meansPublished as mp75,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp75
ts8
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
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.