The Dark Side
Online NA · us5 91.229.114.57:28015 checked 7m 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 36% of all ranked servers, top 63% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Bx1Wipe schedule
no rhythm it keepsIts wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
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| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 20:45 UTC FW27d ago | 1° | – | running | 0 |
| Fri 25 Sep, 21:28 UTC33d ago | 1° | halved by day 1 | 6 days | 1 |
| Thu 24 Sep, 01:17 UTC34d ago | 1° | – | 1.8 days | 0 |
| Wed 23 Sep, 14:25 UTC35d ago | 1° | – | 0.5 days | 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.
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from the figures on this pageWipe schedule
What does wipe day look like on The Dark Side?
Its recent wipes drew an average peak of 1 players. 1 hours into the latest wipe, player numbers topped out. Half the peak was held until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. In the wipes that did not hold, numbers dropped below half by day 1.
What is the wipe schedule on The Dark Side?
There is no next wipe to predict on The Dark Side, which wipes at irregular times. Next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, the monthly force wipe resets every Rust server. 27 days 1 hours ago the server made the world it is on now.
Player counts
How busy is The Dark Side?
Of 25 slots on The Dark Side, 0 are in use right now. Averaged over the past week: 0 players, peaking at 1. Look at 12:00 UTC for the last 48 hours: that hour averaged 0 players.
How does The Dark Side rank against other Rust servers?
Top 36% of ranked servers and #1,175 in North America: that is The Dark Side at #8,089 for player hours over seven days.
Map and rules
Which map does The Dark Side run?
The map on The Dark Side is procedural, size 4,000 with seed 1337, generated by the game. You can look at the map on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed give the same map. The name of the map is: Custom Map.
What are the rules and settings on The Dark Side?
A gather rate is not given in the name The Dark Side. 8 players is the default group size, and that is the limit here. The server runs survival, 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. Plugin count: Carbon. VAC is on, which is Valve's anti-cheat.
About the server
Which version of Rust does The Dark Side run?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what The Dark Side runs. Your game must run the same protocol to join, and Steam takes care of updating it.
Is The Dark Side online, and how reliable is it?
Online now: The Dark Side. Its reported uptime dates the last restart to about 5 days 11 hours ago. 168 of 168 hours up over the last 7 full days, which is 100%. It first appears in Rust Heatmap records on 13 September 2026.
Where is The Dark Side located?
The NA tag places The Dark Side in North America, and us5 is its region code. Rust Heatmap shows the location a server states. It does not look up the machine's location. 91.229.114.57:28015 is its address.
Does The Dark Side run smoothly?
The last 48 hours brought an average of 60 server fps and a floor of 60. Buildings, deployables and the rest of the world came to as much as 88,916 entities. Memory use reached 11,614 MB at most. What players call lag is low fps together with a growing entity count.
Lists and filters
Which Rust Heatmap lists and filters include The Dark Side?
These Rust Heatmap lists include The Dark Side: Modded Rust servers, by live population and North America server heatmap. You will find it under these filters on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more.
What do the server tags on The Dark Side mean?
gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival, standard rules; mp25 (Max players): This server has 25 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs game protocol 2635, so your game has to match it; cs168909 (Build): Build 168909; ptrak (Networking): Standard game networking here, which is RakNet; $rus5 (Region code): This one carries the region code us5; ^z (Modded): Listed as Modded, since settings or plugins change the game; ^y (Carbon): Plugins run through Carbon; NA (North America): North America is where the server browser puts it are the tags The Dark Side 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.
Who runs The Dark Side?
The joinmyga.me hostname published by The Dark Side also appears on 19 other servers we track. The same operator most likely runs them.
Connect
How do I join The Dark Side?
Enter client.connect 91.229.114.57:28015 in the console, opened with F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here, which opens the game through Steam and connects you.