The Dark Carnival
Online 157.85.86.2:28015 checked 10m ago
- Wipedunder 6 hours
- Fillingthe first day
- Peakthe first days
- Settledlater on
- Due againnext wipe close
Players, performance and rank
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
daily · 1 is bestTop 50% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC · 19:00 UK, in 9d 0h.
The force wipe · high confidenceComing wipes
- 9d 0hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC19:00 UKFW
- 37d 0hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC19:00 UKFW
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
every wipe as a delivery, newest first-
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW19:00 UK · in 9d 0hNext wipe expected · the force wipe
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Thu 1 Oct, 23:41 UTC FW 00:41 UK · 25d agoForce wipe delivered
- Peak
- 1
- Crowd
- –
- Lasted
- running
- Players before
- 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.
- Rusty Moose |EU Mondays| 823 / 850
- Rustoria.co - EU Main 58 / 250
- Rusty Moose |EU Main| 134 / 250
- Rustoria.co - EU East Long 524 / 575
- Rustoria.co - EU East Medium 315 / 350
- Rustafied.com - EU Friday 240 / 325
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Population
What is the ranking of The Dark Carnival against other Rust servers?
Over the past seven days, The Dark Carnival has climbed to #11,042 for player hours, putting it in the top 50% of all ranked servers.
Is The Dark Carnival busy at the moment?
The current count is 0 players on 75 slots for The Dark Carnival. Averaged over the past week: 0 players, peaking at 1. The busiest hour over the last 48 hours was 09:00 UTC, averaging 0 players.
Rules and settings
Which map is active on The Dark Carnival?
Generated by the game with seed 1201455836, the procedural map on The Dark Carnival is size 4,500. Identical size and seed give an identical map: view it on RustMaps from this page.
Which settings and rules apply on The Dark Carnival?
The name of The Dark Carnival gives no gather rate. 8 players is the group limit, since the game's default applies. survival is the mode, gather, build and raid, as the standard game goes. You can raid and fight other players. The server browser files it under Community, as a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.
Server details
In which region is The Dark Carnival based?
There is no region published for The Dark Carnival. A server tells Rust Wipe Tracker where it is, and that is what is shown; the machine's real location is not checked. The address to connect to is 157.85.86.2:28015.
Does The Dark Carnival perform well?
Averaged over the last 48 hours, server fps was 123, with a low of 103. Buildings, deployables and all the rest of the world pushed its entity count as high as 119,619. 5,013 MB of memory was its top figure. Players feel a rising entity count and low fps as lag.
Is The Dark Carnival up, and how good is its uptime?
The Dark Carnival is up and online at the moment. The uptime it reports puts its last restart at about 9 hours ago. It was up 168 of 168 hours over the last 7 full days, 100% of the time. It was first seen by Rust Wipe Tracker on 13 September 2026.
On what Rust version does The Dark Carnival operate?
On Linux, The Dark Carnival runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles that update for you.
Map resets
What happens on The Dark Carnival when wipe day arrives?
1 players is the average peak across its recent wipes. After 0 hours the latest wipe's crowd hit its peak.
How often does The Dark Carnival wipe, and at what times?
Once a month is all The Dark Carnival wipes, along with the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 25 days 18 hours have passed since this world was made.
Server tags
On Rust Wipe Tracker, which lists and filters is The Dark Carnival part of?
You will find The Dark Carnival on the following Rust Wipe Tracker lists: Rust community servers, unmodded. These are the filters that bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
How should you read the tags on The Dark Carnival?
Read off the game's server browser, the tags for The Dark Carnival are: gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival is the game mode here; mp75 (Max players): The server has 75 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Team limit: 8, the standard default; v2635 (Protocol): Join only if your game runs protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Build number: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. Players now, the queue and the world's creation time sit at the top of this page and come from the tags as well.
How to join
How do you connect to The Dark Carnival?
Use Launch Rust on this page to join, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you, or start Rust, press F1 and enter client.connect 157.85.86.2:28015.