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, 20h 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.
Too few wipes are recorded for Hello Darkness PVE to establish a pattern. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe arrives, and every Rust server wipes with it. This world dates from 8 days 20 hours.
On Rust Live Stats, Hello Darkness PVE is listed under Modded Rust servers live now. Under the filters Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks it appears on the server list.
The server browser reads gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival, in the Rust style; mp100 (Max players): The slot count is 100; 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): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's usual network layer, carries this server; $r? (Region code): Region code: none set; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, runs on this server; ^z (Modded): Modded: plugins or changed settings alter the game, which Hello Darkness PVE publishes. The current player count, the queue and the world's creation time also sit in the tags, shown at the top of this page.
Hello Darkness PVE reads offline at the moment; the last sighting was 20 hours ago. Across the past week the average was 0 players.
Ranked by seven-day player hours, Hello Darkness PVE is #15,344, placing it in 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. It runs survival, 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. Oxide plugins are in use. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 1470027, generated by the game, runs on Hello Darkness PVE. Same size, same seed, same map: RustMaps has it, reachable from this page.
There is no region from Hello Darkness PVE. A server's stated location is what Rust Live Stats shows; the machine's actual position is not looked up. Connect to 97.247.33.103:28015.
It never went below 43 server fps in the last 48 hours, averaging 61. It supported up to 121,620 entities, covering buildings, deployables and all other objects. Up to 3,410 MB of memory was used. Players experience lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.
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 20 hours ago. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 22 hours ago. Rust Live Stats has tracked it since 27 October 2026.
Use Launch Rust and join on this page to open Rust through Steam and connect, or start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 97.247.33.103:28015.