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Dark Continent

Online 157.85.88.206:25426 checked 13m ago

monthly wipes
Sp1 · players now 0/ 40
0% full
Li1 · players, the last 48 hours · hourly average, UTC
Tue 17:00flare: a wipe in that hourThu 14:00
0
7-day average
peak –
#15,341
rank
top 69%
9d ago
last wipe
monthly schedule
7d 2h
next wipe
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
UTC checked 13m ago

Li2Players

AveragePeak
0123417:0002:0011:0020:0005:0014:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Li3Server performance

010020030040017:0002:0011:0020:0005:0014:00

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 19 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.

Li4Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k19 Oct21 Oct23 Oct25 Oct27 Oct29 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Bx1Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 2h. The force wipe · high confidence

1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 2h
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC
FW
35d 2h
Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC
FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 1 hours in.

Bx2Wipes

newest first · each peak a flare-up, on one √ span to its biggest
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Tue 20 Oct, 03:50 UTC9d ago 1 – running 0

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.

Bx6Similar servers

the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes
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EU · groups of 12+ · monthly · 317 on average
463 / 475
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EU · groups of 12+ · monthly · 214 on average
250 / 275
[EU East] Facepunch 4
EU · groups of 8+ · monthly · 165 on average
120 / 350
[EU] Facepunch 1
EU · groups of 8+ · monthly · 160 on average
171 / 400
Rustopia.gg - US Large
NA · groups of 16+ · monthly · 127 on average
62 / 200
Rustafied.com - EU Long - Large
EU · groups of 16+ · monthly · 126 on average
92 / 125

LogQuick answers

from the figures on this page

Wipe day

What does wipe day look like on Dark Continent?

At their busiest, its recent wipes averaged 1 players. 1 hours into the latest wipe, player numbers topped out.

What is the wipe schedule on Dark Continent?

Once a month, with the force wipe, Dark Continent wipes. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe comes, and that is its next wipe, as for every Rust server. The world in play now was made 9 days 12 hours ago. Its tags state a wipe each month.

Population

How busy is Dark Continent?

Of 40 slots on Dark Continent, 0 are in use right now. A seven-day average of 0 players.

How does Dark Continent rank against other Rust servers?

The top 69% of ranked servers includes Dark Continent, at #15,341 for player hours over the last seven days.

Map and rules

Which map does Dark Continent run?

The map on Dark Continent is procedural, size 2,000 with seed 50000, generated by the game. The map is the same for a given size and seed, so RustMaps can show it from this page.

What are the rules and settings on Dark Continent?

No gather rate appears in the name Dark Continent. 8 players is the default group size, and that is the limit here. The server runs survival, standard play: gathering, building and raiding. You can fight other players and raid their bases. You will find it under Community in the server browser; it is a community server. The server has VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, turned on.

About the server

Which version of Rust does Dark Continent run?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 is the build Dark Continent runs, on Linux. Steam updates your game for you, and the protocol has to match for you to join.

Is Dark Continent online, and how reliable is it?

Right now Dark Continent shows as online. About 3 days 3 hours ago is when it last restarted, by its own uptime figure. 167 of 168 hours up over the last 7 full days, which is 99%. It first appears in Rust Heatmap records on 19 October 2026.

Where is Dark Continent located?

No region is published by Dark Continent. What Rust Heatmap shows is where a server says it is. Where the machine stands is not looked up. 157.85.88.206:25426 is its address.

Does Dark Continent run smoothly?

It averaged 239 server fps over the last 48 hours, with a low of 222. Buildings, deployables and the rest of the world came to as much as 17,325 entities. At its peak it held 2,716 MB of memory. Players feel lag when fps falls and the entity count climbs.

Tags

Which Rust Heatmap lists and filters include Dark Continent?

Best Rust community servers are the Rust Heatmap lists that Dark Continent fits. You will find it under these filters on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Monthly ^m; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

What do the server tags on Dark Continent mean?

These are the tags Dark Continent publishes for the game's server browser to read: gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival, standard rules; mp40 (Max players): Slot count: 40; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2634 (Protocol): To join, run the same version: game protocol 2634; cs167781 (Build): This build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): Standard game networking here, which is RakNet; $r? (Region code): The region code is blank; ^m (Monthly): The wipe cycle is monthly and follows Facepunch's force wipe. Also in the tags, shown at the top of this page: players now, the queue and the time the world was made.

Connect

How do I join Dark Continent?

Press F1 in Rust to open the console, then enter client.connect 157.85.88.206:25426. Alternatively, join from this page with Launch Rust: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you. https://www.facebook.com/NEKOPH is where its website is.

KeyServer tags

what each one means

Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,gmrust,cs167781,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Rust survival, standard rules.
mp40
Max players Slot count: 40.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2634
Protocol To join, run the same version: game protocol 2634.
cs167781
Build This build is 167781.
ptrak
Networking Standard game networking here, which is RakNet.
$r?
Region code The region code is blank.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly The wipe cycle is monthly and follows Facepunch's force wipe.

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.