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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 37% of all ranked servers, top 63% in NA. 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 1, 1 hours in.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 20:45 UTC FW
Wipe
Friday 25 September 2026, 21:28 UTC
Wipe
Thursday 24 September 2026, 01:17 UTC
Wipe
Wednesday 23 September 2026, 14:25 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.
At their busiest, its recent wipes averaged 1 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 1 hours in. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. On those occasions it fell below half by day 1.
No next wipe can be predicted for The Dark Side, 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. 27 days 12 hours have passed since this world was generated.
The joinmyga.me hostname The Dark Side publishes is shared with 18 other tracked servers, which points to one operator.
On Rust Live Stats, The Dark Side is listed under Modded Rust servers live now and North America Rust servers, live. These filters on the server list bring it up: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more.
gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival, in the Rust style; mp25 (Max players): The slot count is 25; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team at most, the game's default setting; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2635, so match that version to join; cs168909 (Build): Build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard the game uses; $rus5 (Region code): us5 is the region code this server carries; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings changes put this under Modded; ^y (Carbon): The plugins run through Carbon; NA (North America): In the server browser it sits under North America: that is the tag list The Dark Side publishes for the game's server browser. The current player count, the queue and the world's creation time also sit in the tags, shown at the top of this page.
0 of The Dark Side's 25 slots are filled right now. The seven-day average is 0 players, with a peak of 1. Peak hour over 48 hours: 12:00 UTC, at 0 players on average.
Seven-day player hours place The Dark Side at #8,127 overall, in the top 37% of ranked servers and #1,176 in North America.
Nothing in the name of The Dark Side states a gather rate. The default applies: 8 players to a group. 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 Carbon. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
A procedural map of 4,000 with seed 1337, generated by the game, runs on The Dark Side. Same size, same seed, same map: RustMaps has it, reachable from this page. Map name, as listed: Custom Map.
The NA tag puts The Dark Side in North America, and us5 is its region code. Where the machine stands is not checked by Rust Live Stats; only the location a server states is shown. Connect to 91.229.114.57:28015.
The average server fps was 60 over the last 48 hours; the lowest was 60. Entity count reached 88,916: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Up to 12,240 MB of memory was used. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.
The setup on The Dark Side 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.
The Dark Side is up and running at this moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 6 hours ago. It was online for 167 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, or 99% of the time. Rust Live Stats has tracked it since 13 September 2026.
Enter client.connect 91.229.114.57:28015 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
