TheDarkZone
Offline 173.249.63.164:28015 checked 25d 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 70% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Bx1Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
Bx2Wipes
newest first · each peak a flare-up, on one √ span to its biggest| 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.
Bx6Similar servers
the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipesLogQuick answers
from the figures on this pageWipe day
What is the wipe schedule on TheDarkZone?
Its rhythm cannot yet be told: too few of TheDarkZone's wipes are on record. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the next monthly force wipe, when every Rust server wipes. The world it runs now dates from 54 days 9 hours ago.
Population
How busy is TheDarkZone?
TheDarkZone went quiet 25 days 23 hours ago and is offline right now.
How does TheDarkZone rank against other Rust servers?
The top 70% of ranked servers includes TheDarkZone, at #15,954 for player hours over the last seven days.
Settings and rules
Which map does TheDarkZone run?
The map on TheDarkZone is procedural, size 4,000 with seed 378793338, 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 TheDarkZone?
No gather rate appears in the name TheDarkZone. 8 players is the default group size, and that is the limit here. survival is the game mode, standard play: gathering, building and raiding. Combat between players and raiding are both possible. Plugins or settings change the game, and it is listed under Modded in the server browser. Oxide plugins run on this server. VAC is on, which is Valve's anti-cheat.
Server details
Which version of Rust does TheDarkZone run?
Rust network protocol 2633 and build 163794 is the build TheDarkZone runs, on Linux. Steam updates your game for you, and the protocol has to match for you to join.
Is TheDarkZone online, and how reliable is it?
TheDarkZone is down just now; the last sighting was 25 days 23 hours ago. It was up 0 of 168 hours across the last 7 full days, or 0% of the time. Rust Heatmap has had it on record since 13 September 2026.
Where is TheDarkZone located?
Nothing about a region comes from TheDarkZone. Rust Heatmap shows the location a server states. It does not look up the machine's location. To connect, use 173.249.63.164:28015.
Tags
Which Rust Heatmap lists and filters include TheDarkZone?
These Rust Heatmap lists include TheDarkZone: Modded Rust servers, by live population. Filtering the list by Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more brings it up.
What do the server tags on TheDarkZone mean?
These are the tags TheDarkZone publishes for the game's server browser to read: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust form; mp10 (Max players): Slot count: 10; ts8 (Group limit): The game default applies: 8 per team at most; v2633 (Protocol): Your game must match protocol 2633 to get in; cs163794 (Build): This build is 163794; ptrak (Networking): Standard game networking here, which is RakNet; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here; ^z (Modded): Listed as Modded, since settings or plugins change the game. Players now, the queue and the world's creation time sit in the tags as well and appear at the top of this page.
How to join
How do I join TheDarkZone?
Enter client.connect 173.249.63.164:28015 in the console, opened with F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here, which opens the game through Steam and connects you.