Online 157.85.86.2:28015 checked 9m ago
The Dark Carnival
Connect
srv = rust.server("157.85.86.2:28016")
print(srv.connect_command)
Right now
srv.summary()
Players
srv.players.plot(range="48h")
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
srv.performance.plot(measure="fps", range="48h")
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.
Rank · daily · 1 is best
srv.rank.plot(invert=True) # 1 is best
Top 50% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule · force wipes only
srv.wipe_schedule()
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 8h. # The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
| in | at | kind | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 8d 8h | Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC | FW force wipe |
| 1 | 36d 8h | Thu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTC | FW force wipe |
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 0 hours in.
Wipes · newest first
srv.wipes.head(20)
| wiped | peak | crowd | lasted | players_before | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Thu 1 Oct, 23:41 UTC FW26d ago | 1 | NaN | running | 1 |
# 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.
display(srv.map, srv.info())
Map
4500 · seed 1201455836
- map
- Procedural Map
- size
- 4500
- seed
- 1201455836
Server
srv.info()- address
- 157.85.86.2:28015
- region
- –
- max players
- 75
- group limit
- 8, the default
- wipe schedule
- –
- last wipe
- 1 Oct 2026, 23:41 UTC
- hostname
- –
- first seen
- 13 Sep 2026
Similar servers · the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes
rust.similar(srv).head(6)
| server | like_this | players | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Rusty Moose |EU Mondays| | EU · groups of 12+ · weekly · 540 on average | 609/575 |
| 1 | Rustoria.co - EU East Long | EU · groups of 12+ · monthly · 318 on average | 389/400 |
| 2 | Rustoria.co - EU Main | EU · groups of 16+ · weekly · 312 on average | 38/250 |
| 3 | Rusty Moose |EU Main| | EU · groups of 12+ · weekly · 311 on average | 47/250 |
| 4 | Rustoria.co - EU East Medium | EU · groups of 12+ · biweekly · 272 on average | 157/200 |
| 5 | Rustafied.com - EU Friday | EU · groups of 16+ · weekly · 265 on average | 84/100 |
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Population data
What position does The Dark Carnival take in the server rankings?
Over the last seven days The Dark Carnival sits at #11,103 on player hours, in the top 50% of ranked servers.
How full does The Dark Carnival run?
The sample now reads 0 players for The Dark Carnival, out of 75 slots. Over the last seven days it averaged 0 players and peaked at 1.
Server data
How well does The Dark Carnival perform?
Averaged over 48 hours: 124 server fps, never under 103. Buildings, deployables and all else in the world took the count as high as 119,619 entities. A high of 5,013 MB of memory used. Lag, as players feel it, comes from an entity count that climbs and fps that falls.
What Rust version does The Dark Carnival run?
The build is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux, run by The Dark Carnival. Joining needs the same protocol on your game; Steam handles the update.
How reliable is The Dark Carnival, and is it online now?
The current sample puts The Dark Carnival online. The uptime it reports puts the last restart about 2 hours ago. Uptime of 100% across the last 7 full days: 168 hours of 168. Its earliest recorded date in Rust Data is 13 September 2026.
Where does The Dark Carnival sit?
No region is published by The Dark Carnival. The location shown by Rust Data is what a server says, not a lookup of where the machine stands. 157.85.86.2:28015 is its address.
Settings and map
Which rules apply on The Dark Carnival, and what settings?
The name The Dark Carnival carries no gather rate. No custom cap; the default of 8 players per group stands. survival is the game mode here, and the usual game, with gathering, building and raiding. Combat and raiding between players: both allowed. It is a community server, and the browser files it under Community. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
Which map has The Dark Carnival loaded?
The Dark Carnival runs a procedural map of size 4,500 with seed 1201455836, generated by the game. Because size and seed determine the map, it can be viewed on RustMaps via this page.
Wipe schedule
When does The Dark Carnival wipe, and how often?
A single wipe each month, the force wipe, is all The Dark Carnival does. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe comes; that is the next wipe, and every Rust server takes it. The world it runs now was generated 26 days 11 hours ago.
What is wipe day on The Dark Carnival like?
The average peak over recent wipes is 1 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 0 hours after it began.
Tags, lists
Where does The Dark Carnival appear among Rust Data lists and filters?
The Rust Data lists that The Dark Carnival fits are: Rust community servers, unfiltered. It appears under these filters on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
How should you read the server tags on The Dark Carnival?
Read by the game's server browser, the tags The Dark Carnival publishes are: gmrust (Game mode): Survival play, standard Rust; mp75 (Max players): Slot count: 75; ts8 (Group limit): Unchanged from default, teams hold up to 8; v2635 (Protocol): The server speaks protocol 2635, so match your game version; cs168909 (Build): Recorded game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): Standard network layer for Rust: RakNet; $r? (Region code): The region field is empty. At the top of this page you will also find the current players, the queue and the world creation time, all taken from the tags.
Connecting
How can I connect to The Dark Carnival?
In Rust, F1 opens the console: type client.connect 157.85.86.2:28015. Launch Rust on this page does the same by opening the game through Steam and connecting.