This server publishes no banner
Exhibit no. 11,074Acc. 2026.11074
The Dark Carnival
Rust server · in the archive since 13 September 2026
Online 157.85.86.2:28015 checked 9m ago
The timeline
Wipes
Every wipe on record as a dated marker, the force wipes among them, and the wipes expected next. Newest first in the record below.
13 Sep Now 1 Oct23:41 · FW 5 Nov19:00 · FW 3 Dec19:00 · FW
a wipe on recordthe monthly force wipeexpectednow, 27 Oct 2026, 16:45 UTCAll times UTC.
The record of each wipe
-
Thu 1 Oct 202623:41 UTC FW25d ago
- Peak
- 1
- Crowd
- –
- Lasted
- running
- Players before
- 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.
The rhythm
Wipe schedule
force wipes only
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 9d 2h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 9d 2hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 37d 2hThu 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.
The record
Population, performance and rank
Kept in folders: players every five minutes, every hour and every day; the server answering for itself; its rank among every server ranked.
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
Top 50% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Related exhibits
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Visitors' questions about this exhibit
Quick answers
Answered from the figures on this page.
Tags, lists
What do the server tags on The Dark Carnival mean?
You can see the tags The Dark Carnival publishes, read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): This server runs standard Rust survival; mp75 (Max players): The server holds 75 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default cap of 8 per team applies here; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game has to be on protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network layer, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. Shown at the top of this page are the current players, the queue and the world's age, also taken from the tags.
Which Rust Server History lists and filters include The Dark Carnival?
The Rust Server History lists that feature The Dark Carnival are: Rust community servers. It appears under these filters on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
Server record
Does The Dark Carnival run smoothly?
Across the last 48 hours it averaged 123 server fps; the low was 103. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world came to as many as 119,619 entities. Memory use peaked at 5,013 MB. Players feel lag when fps drop and the entity count climbs.
Which version of Rust does The Dark Carnival run?
On Linux, The Dark Carnival runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. The protocol must match to join, and Steam handles that update.
Is The Dark Carnival online, and how reliable is it?
At this moment The Dark Carnival is online. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 8 hours ago. Of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, 168 were up: 100% of the time. The first sighting by Rust Server History was on 13 September 2026.
Where is The Dark Carnival located?
You will find no region published by The Dark Carnival. The location on Rust Server History is what a server says, not a lookup of where the machine stands. You will find it at 157.85.86.2:28015.
Wipe history
What does wipe day look like on The Dark Carnival?
An average peak of 1 players was drawn by its recent wipes. 0 hours into the latest wipe the crowd peaked.
What is the wipe schedule on The Dark Carnival?
The Dark Carnival wipes with the force wipe, once a month. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. Made 25 days 17 hours ago, the current world is what it runs now.
Player record
How does The Dark Carnival rank against other Rust servers?
Player hours over the last seven days put The Dark Carnival at #11,074: a place in the top 50% of all ranked servers.
How busy is The Dark Carnival?
Against 75 slots, The Dark Carnival records 0 players right now. Stored history gives a seven-day average of 0 players and a peak of 1. The busiest hour of the last 48 was 09:00 UTC, averaging 0 players.
Rules, map
What are the rules and settings on The Dark Carnival?
You will not find a gather rate in the name of The Dark Carnival. At 8 players, the group limit matches the game's default. Recorded as survival, with this note: gather, build, raid: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players are permitted. Under Community in the server browser, this community server is listed. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is active.
Which map does The Dark Carnival run?
Generated by the game at size 4,500 with seed 1201455836, the map on The Dark Carnival is procedural. One size and seed produce one map, which RustMaps can show you from this page.
Joining the server
How do I join The Dark Carnival?
Enter client.connect 157.85.86.2:28015 in the console, opened with F1 in Rust. Launch Rust and join on this page also works: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
The label explained
Server tags
What each tag this server publishes means.
Published as mp75,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp75
ts8
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
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.