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The count
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Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
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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.
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Top 50% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Coming up · wipe schedule
force wipes only
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 8h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 0 hours in.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 23:41 UTC FW
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.
At their busiest, its recent wipes averaged 1 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak.
Once a month is all The Dark Carnival wipes, together with the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. The world you are playing on was built 26 days 10 hours.
The Rust Live Stats lists that include The Dark Carnival are Live Rust community servers. You will find it on the server list under Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
gmrust (Game mode): Survival here follows standard Rust; mp75 (Max players): Slots: 75; ts8 (Group limit): Team cap: 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2635, so match that version to join; cs168909 (Build): Build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer — the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): Region code: none set: that is the tag list The Dark Carnival publishes for the game's server browser. Also in the tags: players on now, the queue, and when the world was made. You will find them at the top of this page.
Live now: 0 players on The Dark Carnival, out of 75 slots. Averaged across seven days, 0 players; the peak was 1.
On player hours for the past seven days, The Dark Carnival sits at #11,115, inside the top 50% of ranked servers.
Nothing in the name of The Dark Carnival states a gather rate. No custom limit is set, so groups hold the default 8 players. survival is the mode, with the standard game: gather, build, raid. Raiding and player combat are both permitted. You find it under Community in the server browser. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 1201455836, generated by the game, runs on The Dark Carnival. Size and seed repeat the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
Nothing on The Dark Carnival states a region. Where the machine stands is not checked by Rust Live Stats; only the location a server states is shown. 157.85.86.2:28015 is its address.
The average server fps was 124 over the last 48 hours; the lowest was 103. It supported up to 119,619 entities, covering buildings, deployables and all other objects. The highest memory usage was 5,013 MB. Players experience lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.
The setup on The Dark Carnival is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 with Linux. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
Right now The Dark Carnival is online. About 2 hours ago is when it last restarted, according to its uptime. 168 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 100% uptime. On 13 September 2026, Rust Live Stats saw it for the first time.
Enter client.connect 157.85.86.2:28015 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.