The Dark Carnival
Key statistics
the figures behind the quote- Players now
- 0/ 75 0% full
- Change · 24h
- ▪+0 no reading a day ago
- 7-day average
- 0 peak 1
- Rank
- #9,399 top 42%
- Rank · 7d ago
- #7,854 ▼1545 places down
- Last wipe
- 12d ago no schedule published
- Next wipe
- 22d 15h Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
- Group limit
- 8 8, the default
- Gather rate
- – no rate in the name
- Score
- 7 player hours, last seven days
- Map
- 4500 Procedural Map · seed 1201455836
- First seen
- 13 Sep 2026 no hostname published
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC. Busiest hour of the two days: 1 players.
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 42% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
force wipes only- wipe-day peak
- 1 players, last three wipes
Coming wipes
- 22d 15hThu 5 Nov, 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 FW12d 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| # | Server | Last | Chg 24h | Players over the last 24 hours24h |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rustoria.co - EU East LongEU · groups of 12+ · monthly · 408 on average | 155/200 | ▲+1+0.8% | |
| 2 | Rusty Moose |EU Monthly|EU · groups of 12+ · monthly · 358 on average | 93/200 | ▲+6+6.7% | |
| 3 | Rusty Moose |US Monthly|NA · groups of 12+ · monthly · 339 on average | 405/450 | ▲+77+23.4% | |
| 4 | Rustoria.co - EU LongEU · groups of 14+ · monthly · 335 on average | 103/200 | ▲+20+24.5% | |
| 5 | Rustoria.co - EU MainEU · groups of 16+ · weekly · 299 on average | 27/250 | ▼−3−8.7% | |
| 6 | Rustafied.com - EU Long - LargeEU · groups of 16+ · monthly · 282 on average | 106/150 | ▲+26+32.8% |
Quick answers
from the figures on this pageMap and Rules
How is The Dark Carnival configured in terms of rules and settings?
The name of The Dark Carnival carries no gather rate. Groups can contain a maximum of 8 players, the default for the game. It runs survival, gather, build and raid in the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. Community is its listing in the server browser. VAC is active.
What is the current map on The Dark Carnival?
The map on The Dark Carnival is procedural, size 4,500, with seed 1201455836, and generated by the game. The map is reproducible from its size and seed; RustMaps shows it from this page.
Player Count
Where does The Dark Carnival sit in the rankings?
In the top 42% of all ranked servers, The Dark Carnival is #9,399 on player hours over the last seven days.
What is the population on The Dark Carnival?
0 of 75 slots on The Dark Carnival are filled right now. Average players over seven days: 0; peak: 1. The busiest hour in the last 48 hours was 00:00 UTC, with an average of 0 players.
Wipe Schedule
How does The Dark Carnival handle wipe day?
The average peak across its recent wipes is 1 players. On the latest wipe, 0 hours after the wipe, the crowd peaked.
On what cycle does The Dark Carnival wipe?
The only wipe at The Dark Carnival is the monthly force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes the force wipe, its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 12 days 3 hours ago the current world was created.
Server Info
What is the location of The Dark Carnival?
There is no region published for The Dark Carnival. Rust Analytics reports the location a server claims, not the machine's actual location. 157.85.86.2:28015 is its address.
What is the performance like on The Dark Carnival?
The last 48 hours average 108 server fps, the low being 35. 118,360 entities is the maximum carried: buildings, deployables and everything else. The memory ceiling reached 4,287 MB. What players feel as lag is low fps together with a rising entity count.
The Dark Carnival is on which Rust version?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167584 on Linux is what The Dark Carnival runs. Joining requires the same protocol on your game, which Steam updates.
How reliable is The Dark Carnival and is it currently online?
The server is live: The Dark Carnival is online. Its own uptime figure dates the last restart to roughly 18 hours ago. 7 full days have passed with 100% uptime, 168 of 168 hours. 13 September 2026 is when Rust Analytics first saw it.
Server Tags
What is the meaning of the tags on The Dark Carnival?
The game's server browser reads gmrust (Game mode): Rust's standard survival mode; mp75 (Max players): Slot count: 75; ts8 (Group limit): Team size stays at the game default of 8; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: matching game versions are required to join; cs167584 (Build): Game build: 167584; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet; $r? (Region code): The region code is absent, which The Dark Carnival publishes. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time; this page shows them at the top.
The Dark Carnival appears in which of the lists and filters on Rust Analytics?
The following Rust Analytics lists feature The Dark Carnival: Rust community servers. It appears under these filters on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
How to Join
What steps do I take to join The Dark Carnival?
The console route: start Rust, press F1, enter client.connect 157.85.86.2:28015. The page's Launch Rust button opens Rust through Steam and connects you instead.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished as mp75,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167584,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp75
ts8
v2634
cs167584
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.