The Dark Carnival
157.85.86.2:28015 checked 11m 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 19h. The force wipe · high confidence
- wipe-day peak
- 1 players, last three wipes
Coming wipes
- 22d 19hThu 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
Player Numbers
Where does The Dark Carnival sit in the rankings?
Rank #9,358 over the last seven days in player hours: The Dark Carnival, inside the top 42% of ranked servers.
How many players are on The Dark Carnival?
0 of 75 slots are filled on The Dark Carnival at the moment. The seven-day average player count stands at 0, and the highest point was 1. The busiest time in the last 48 hours was 00:00 UTC, when the average player count was 0.
Server Tags
What is the meaning of the tags on The Dark Carnival?
Read by the game's server browser, the tags The Dark Carnival publishes are: gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival, standard; mp75 (Max players): The server has 75 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size: 8; v2634 (Protocol): Game protocol 2634; the same version is required to join; cs167584 (Build): Running build 167584; ptrak (Networking): Network layer: RakNet, the standard; $r? (Region code): Region code not set. At the top of this page you also see its players now, its queue and when its world was made, taken from the tags.
Which lists and filters on BestRustServers.xyz contain The Dark Carnival?
These BestRustServers.xyz lists include The Dark Carnival: Rust community servers, ranked. It appears under these filters 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.
Server Details
What Rust version is The Dark Carnival on?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167584 on Linux is what The Dark Carnival uses. Joining requires the same protocol; Steam updates your game for you.
The Dark Carnival performance: is it smooth?
Its average server fps over the last 48 hours was 109, with a low of 35. The entity count reached 118,360, covering buildings, deployables and all other world objects. At its highest, memory usage was 4,221 MB. Players feel lag when fps is low and entity count climbs.
How reliable is The Dark Carnival and is it online?
At the moment, The Dark Carnival is up. According to its reported uptime, the last restart was about 15 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours. The first time BestRustServers.xyz saw it was on 13 September 2026.
Where can The Dark Carnival be found?
There is no region published by The Dark Carnival. BestRustServers.xyz does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. 157.85.86.2:28015 is its address.
Settings & Map
The Dark Carnival map: which one is it?
Generated by the game, the map on The Dark Carnival is procedural, size 4,500, seed 1201455836. On RustMaps, from this page, the same size and seed show the same map.
What are the settings and rules for The Dark Carnival?
A gather rate is not given in the name The Dark Carnival. With no stated limit, groups default to 8 players. It runs survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. Under Community in the server browser, it is a community server. VAC: on.
Wipe Information
The Dark Carnival wipe schedule: what does it show?
The Dark Carnival wipes at the monthly force wipe only. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes its next wipe: the force wipe that takes every Rust server. The world in play was made 12 days.
On The Dark Carnival, what occurs on wipe day?
An average peak of 1 players was drawn by its recent wipes. 0 hours into the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak.
Connect
How can I connect to The Dark Carnival?
Use the F1 console: client.connect 157.85.86.2:28015. Launch Rust on this page does the same by opening Rust through Steam and connecting.
Server tags
Published as mp75,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167584,ts8
Game
gmrust- Game mode Rust survival, standard.
mp75- Max players The server has 75 slots.
ts8- Group limit Default team size: 8.
v2634- Protocol Game protocol 2634; the same version is required to join.
cs167584- Build Running build 167584.
ptrak- Networking Network layer: RakNet, the standard.
$r?- Region code Region code not set.
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.