The Dark Carnival
Online 157.85.86.2:28015 checked 10m ago
Li2Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Li3Server 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.
Li4Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 50% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Bx1Wipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 9d 1h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
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.
Bx2Wipes
newest first · each peak a flare-up, on one √ span to its biggest| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 23:41 UTC FW25d 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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What does wipe day look like on The Dark Carnival?
The average peak across its recent wipes is 1 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked.
What is the wipe schedule on The Dark Carnival?
The only wipe on The Dark Carnival is the monthly force wipe. Its next wipe falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC with the force wipe, when all Rust servers wipe. 25 days 17 hours ago the server made the world it is on now.
Population
How busy is The Dark Carnival?
The Dark Carnival currently has 0 of its 75 slots filled. The average across the last seven days is 0 players; the peak reached 1. Look at 09:00 UTC for the last 48 hours: that hour averaged 0 players.
How does The Dark Carnival rank against other Rust servers?
Player hours over seven days put The Dark Carnival at #11,074, in the top 50% of ranked servers.
Settings and rules
Which map does The Dark Carnival run?
The Dark Carnival runs a procedural map of size 4,500 with seed 1201455836, generated by the game. From this page you can view the map on RustMaps, since the same size and seed give the same map.
What are the rules and settings on The Dark Carnival?
No gather rate appears in the name The Dark Carnival. 8 players is the default group size, and that is the limit here. The server runs survival, gather, build and raid in the standard game. Players can fight each other, and raids are allowed. In the server browser it appears under Community, as a community server. The server has VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, turned on.
About the server
Which version of Rust does The Dark Carnival run?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what The Dark Carnival runs. To join, your game must match the protocol; Steam handles the update.
Is The Dark Carnival online, and how reliable is it?
Online now: The Dark Carnival. Its reported uptime dates the last restart to about 9 hours ago. It was up 168 of 168 hours across the last 7 full days, or 100% of the time. Rust Heatmap has had it on record since 13 September 2026.
Where is The Dark Carnival located?
A region is not published for The Dark Carnival. What Rust Heatmap shows is where a server says it is. Where the machine stands is not looked up. You can reach it at 157.85.86.2:28015.
Does The Dark Carnival run smoothly?
It averaged 123 server fps over the last 48 hours, with a low of 103. Buildings, deployables and the rest of the world came to as much as 119,619 entities. At its peak it held 5,013 MB of memory. Players feel lag when fps falls and the entity count climbs.
Lists and filters
Which Rust Heatmap lists and filters include The Dark Carnival?
Best Rust community servers are the Rust Heatmap lists that The Dark Carnival fits. These are the filters that return it on the list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
What do the server tags on The Dark Carnival mean?
gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust form; mp75 (Max players): The slot count is 75; ts8 (Group limit): At most 8 per team: the default the game ships with; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs game protocol 2635, so your game has to match it; cs168909 (Build): The game build here is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): The region code is blank are the tags The Dark Carnival publishes, and the server browser reads them. The top of this page also shows the tags for players now, the queue and when the world was made.
Connect
How do I join The Dark Carnival?
Enter client.connect 157.85.86.2:28015 in the console, opened with F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here, which opens the game through Steam and connects you.