The Dark Carnival
Online 157.85.86.2:28015 checked 13m ago
Players now
Live- Full
- 0%
- In queue
- 0
- Peak, 48 hours
- 0
- Peak, 7 days
- 1
0% full
Rank
top 50%
7-day average
peak 1
Last wipe
no schedule published
Next wipe
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
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, in 8d 9h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 8d 9hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 36d 9hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
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
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 23:41 UTC FW26d 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.
Similar servers
the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes- 1 156/ 250
- 2 290/ 325
- 3 35/ 250
- 4 20/ 250
- 5 152/ 200
- 6 65/ 100
Quick answers
from the figures on this pageServer
Is The Dark Carnival online, and how reliable is it?
Players can join The Dark Carnival: it is online. The uptime it reports puts its last restart about 5 minutes ago. The last 7 full days show 100% uptime, with 168 hours up out of 168. Rust Dashboard logged it for the first time on 13 September 2026.
Which version of Rust does The Dark Carnival run?
On Linux, The Dark Carnival runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. You need the same protocol as the server to join. Steam updates your game for you.
Where is The Dark Carnival located?
No region is published by The Dark Carnival. Rust Dashboard takes the location a server gives; the machine's real position is not checked. Connect to it at 157.85.86.2:28015.
Does The Dark Carnival run smoothly?
The last 48 hours gave an average of 124 server fps, and it never went under 103. Buildings, deployables and everything else added up to a peak of 119,619 entities. At its highest, it took 5,013 MB of memory. When fps is low and entities keep piling up, players notice it as lag.
Lists
Which Rust Dashboard lists and filters include The Dark Carnival?
You'll find The Dark Carnival on these themed lists at Rust Dashboard: Best Rust community servers. You'll find it under these filters on the server 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?
The browser in the game reads gmrust (Game mode): The game runs on standard Rust survival settings; mp75 (Max players): 75 is the slot count; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default the game ships with; v2635 (Protocol): Your game needs to be on the same version, protocol 2635, to get in; cs168909 (Build): Build 168909 is what it runs; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the standard network layer for the game, and it is what runs here; $r? (Region code): No region code is set from The Dark Carnival as its tags. At the top of this page you'll find the current players, the queue and the world's creation time, which the tags carry too.
Live players
How busy is The Dark Carnival?
The Dark Carnival has 0 of its 75 slots filled at the moment. Averaged across the last seven days: 0 players, peaking at 1.
How does The Dark Carnival rank against other Rust servers?
Player hours over seven days put The Dark Carnival at #11,092, in the top 50% of all ranked servers.
Reset times
What does wipe day look like on The Dark Carnival?
The average busiest point of its recent wipes was 1 players. 0 hours into the latest wipe the crowd peaked.
What is the wipe schedule on The Dark Carnival?
Wipes come once a month on The Dark Carnival, in step with the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe comes, and that is its next wipe, as it is for every Rust server. The world it runs now dates from 26 days 9 hours ago.
Rules
What are the rules and settings on The Dark Carnival?
You will not find a gather rate in the name of The Dark Carnival. The group limit is 8 players, which is the game's default. survival is the mode here, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. You can fight other players and raid their bases. You will find it under Community in the server browser. Valve's VAC anti-cheat runs here.
Which map does The Dark Carnival run?
The game generates the procedural map on The Dark Carnival, size 4,500 with seed 1201455836. This page links to RustMaps, where the map looks the same for its size and seed.
How to join
How do I join The Dark Carnival?
The console in Rust opens with F1, and client.connect 157.85.86.2:28015 goes in there. Launch Rust on this page is the other route, opening Rust through Steam to connect you.