Offline 97.171.185.161:28015 checked 19h ago
Hello Darkness PVE
By the numbersMatch stats
against its 100 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 27 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
FormRank
daily · 1 is bestTop 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
FixturesWipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
ResultsWipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No wipe seen yet. | ||||
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 Hello Darkness PVE online, and how reliable is it?
Offline right now, with a last sighting 19 hours ago: Hello Darkness PVE. The reported uptime puts the last restart at roughly 11 hours ago. On 27 October 2026, Rust Player Stats saw it for the first time.
Does Hello Darkness PVE run smoothly?
Averaging 64 server fps across the last 48 hours, it held a floor of 52. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world pushed the entity count to 121,515. 3,223 MB of memory was the high point. Lag, to a player, is these two together: low fps and a rising entity count.
Which Rust version is Hello Darkness PVE on?
On Windows, Hello Darkness PVE runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. To get in, your game needs the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Where is Hello Darkness PVE located?
There is no region published on Hello Darkness PVE. What a server says about itself is what Rust Player Stats shows; no check is made of where the machine actually stands. The address you connect to is 97.171.185.161:28015.
Lists and filters
What do the server tags on Hello Darkness PVE mean?
The game's server browser reads these tags from Hello Darkness PVE: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp100 (Max players): Slot count: 100; ts8 (Group limit): No more than 8 to a team, as the game sets by default; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game has to run protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Build number: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's standard layer; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^o (Oxide): It uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): Modded is its category: plugins or settings change how it plays. The tags carry more besides: present players, queue length and when the world was made, all displayed at the top of this page.
Which Rust Player Stats lists and filters include Hello Darkness PVE?
You will find Hello Darkness PVE on the following Rust Player Stats lists: Modded Rust servers, live. These filters on the server list bring it up: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Map and rules
Which map is running on Hello Darkness PVE?
Hello Darkness PVE runs a game-generated procedural map: size 4,500, seed 1470027. The map repeats with that size and seed, and you can view it on RustMaps from here.
What are the rules and settings on Hello Darkness PVE?
Nothing in the name of Hello Darkness PVE states a gather rate. The cap is 8 players per group, the game's default. It plays as survival, build, gather and raid in the standard game. PvP is on, and so is raiding. Under Modded in the server browser: the game is changed by plugins or settings. It runs plugins: Oxide. Anti-cheat is on: VAC.
Population
What is the population on Hello Darkness PVE at the moment?
Down at the moment, Hello Darkness PVE was last seen 19 hours ago. Averaged out across the past week, the count is 0 players.
Where does Hello Darkness PVE sit in the rankings?
Ranked #15,411 on seven-day player hours, Hello Darkness PVE is in the top 69% of all ranked servers.
Wipe days
What is the wipe schedule on Hello Darkness PVE?
To tell its rhythm, more of Hello Darkness PVE's wipes need to be on record. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe lands, and every Rust server wipes. The world it runs now was made 8 days 8 hours ago.
Joining the server
How do I join Hello Darkness PVE?
Press F1 in Rust, bring up the console and enter client.connect 97.171.185.161:28015. The Launch Rust button here does the same, opening Rust via Steam and connecting you.
GlossaryServer tags
what each one meansPublished as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z
Game
gmrust
mp100
ts8
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
Mods and access
^o
^z
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.