Live coverage · Rust server
Offline Hello Darkness PVE is not on the server list right now. The figures below are from when it was last seen, 21h ago.
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 27 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
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Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Coming up · wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
This server has not put up a new map since the desk started watching it.
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.
Hello Darkness PVE's wipe history is too thin on record to show a rhythm. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the next monthly force wipe, and no Rust server is spared it. 8 days 9 hours have passed since this world was generated.
The Rust Live Stats lists that include Hello Darkness PVE are Modded Rust servers live now. You will find it on the server list under Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival, in the Rust style; mp100 (Max players): 100 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): Team cap: 8, which is the game default; 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): The server sets no region code; ^o (Oxide): Plugin framework: Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings changes put this under Modded: that is the tag list Hello Darkness PVE publishes for the game's server browser. Players now, queue length and world creation time are carried in the tags too, and appear at the top of this page.
Hello Darkness PVE is not online at the moment, having last been seen 21 hours ago. Across the past week the average was 0 players.
On player hours for the past seven days, Hello Darkness PVE sits at #15,423, inside the top 69% of ranked servers.
The name Hello Darkness PVE carries no gather rate. No custom limit is set, so groups hold the default 8 players. survival applies here, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. Plugins or settings change the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. The plugin load is Oxide. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
Hello Darkness PVE runs a game-generated procedural map: size 4,500, seed 1470027. RustMaps shows it from this page, since equal size and seed give an equal map.
No region is published by Hello Darkness PVE. The location shown on Rust Live Stats is the one a server gives, not a lookup of the machine's position. You can reach it at 97.171.185.161:28015.
It never went below 52 server fps in the last 48 hours, averaging 64. Entity count reached 121,515: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Memory use peaked at 3,223 MB. Lag, as players feel it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
The setup on Hello Darkness PVE is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 with Windows. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.
At the time of this update, Hello Darkness PVE is down, last seen 21 hours ago. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 11 hours ago. The first sighting by Rust Live Stats was on 27 October 2026.
Enter client.connect 97.171.185.161:28015 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.