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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 29% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Coming up · wipe schedule
no rhythm it keeps
Its wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 3 hours in.
The current map
Sunday 25 October 2026, 04:35 UTC
Wipe
Saturday 3 October 2026, 09:37 UTC
Wipe
Thursday 24 September 2026, 18:41 UTC
Wipe
Wednesday 16 September 2026, 23:36 UTC
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 average peak across its recent wipes is 2 players. 3 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak. Half the peak was held until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. On those occasions it fell below half by day 2.5.
No next wipe can be predicted for The Dark Force, which wipes at irregular times. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the next monthly force wipe, and no Rust server is spared it. This world dates from 3 days 20 hours.
These are the Rust Live Stats lists The Dark Force fits: Modded Rust servers live now. These filters on the server list bring it up: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Last wipe: In the last week.
The server browser reads gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival, in the Rust style; mp80 (Max players): The slot count is 80; ts0 (Group limit): This server switches teams off; v2635 (Protocol): Join only if your game is on protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard the game uses; $r? (Region code): No region code is set here; ^o (Oxide): It runs the plugin framework Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): The game changes here through plugins or settings, so it is Modded, which The Dark Force publishes. 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.
0 of The Dark Force's 80 slots are filled right now. Averaged across seven days, 0 players; the peak was 2. The busiest hour in the past 48 was 16:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.
On player hours for the past seven days, The Dark Force sits at #6,414, inside the top 29% of ranked servers.
No gather rate appears in the name The Dark Force. It lists no limit on group size. survival is the mode, with the standard game: gather, build, raid. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. The server browser files it under Modded: plugins or settings alter the game. The plugin load is Oxide. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
The Dark Force runs a game-generated procedural map: size 6,000, seed 825822194. RustMaps shows it from this page, since equal size and seed give an equal map.
Nothing on The Dark Force states a region. Where the machine stands is not checked by Rust Live Stats; only the location a server states is shown. You can reach it at 168.100.161.129:28039.
Server fps averaged 11 over the last 48 hours, with a low of 5. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to a maximum of 203,327 entities. Up to 5,243 MB of memory was used. Lag, as players feel it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
The Dark Force operates on Linux with Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
The Dark Force is up and running at this moment. About 3 days 18 hours ago is when it last restarted, according to its uptime. 167 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 99% uptime. Rust Live Stats has tracked it since 13 September 2026.
Enter client.connect 168.100.161.129:28039 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
