The Dark Carnival
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 33%.
Power level
Players on it, from the Steam server list.
Every five minutes.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Tale of the tape
Against its closest rival: the most similar server we track.
Wipe receipt
157.85.86.2:28015
THANK YOU · COME AGAIN NEXT WIPE
The map
Under the hood
Asked of the server directly. Low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
The ranking
Top 33% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- 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
Other contenders
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Map and rules
What are The Dark Carnival's rules and configuration?
No gather rate appears in the name of The Dark Carnival. It uses the default group size of 8 players. It plays as survival, the default game of gathering, building and raiding. You can fight and raid other players. The server browser lists it under Community as a community server. The server has VAC on.
What's the map on The Dark Carnival?
A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 1201455836 is in use on The Dark Carnival, made by the game. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, as the same size and seed make the same map.
Tags
How should you read the tags on The Dark Carnival?
These tags come from The Dark Carnival and go straight into the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival setup; mp75 (Max players): Slot count: 75; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, as Facepunch ships it; v2634 (Protocol): Get on protocol 2634 or the door stays shut; cs166652 (Build): Running build 166652; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's usual choice; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank. The top of this page also shows its current players, its queue and when its world was made, all taken from the tags.
Which Boongarust filters show The Dark Carnival?
On these Boongarust lists you will find The Dark Carnival: The busiest community servers in Rust. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server details
Is The Dark Carnival laggy?
The 48-hour average was 115 server fps; the floor was 40. At its peak, it held 118,073 entities, including buildings and deployables. At its highest, memory consumption was 3,523 MB. What players call lag is low fps plus a rising entity count.
Where can you find The Dark Carnival?
No region comes from The Dark Carnival. Where a server says it is, that is what Boongarust shows. Where the machine actually stands is not looked up. You can reach it at 157.85.86.2:28015.
How often is The Dark Carnival online?
Online: The Dark Carnival, at this moment. A restart happened about 15 hours ago, based on the uptime figure. 121 hours out of 168 across the last 7 full days. 72% uptime. 13 September 2026 is when Boongarust first spotted it.
What Rust version is The Dark Carnival using?
On Linux, The Dark Carnival runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652. You must match the protocol to join; Steam updates it automatically.
Wipe info
How does The Dark Carnival handle wipe day?
Across recent wipes, the average peak was 1 players. Peak crowd on the latest wipe came 0 hours after it.
The Dark Carnival wipes on what schedule?
The Dark Carnival wipes with the force wipe, once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes the force wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. Its world is 5 days 23 hours old.
Population
Ranking wise, where does The Dark Carnival place?
Player hours over seven days put The Dark Carnival at #7,854, in the top 33% of all ranked servers.
What's the player count on The Dark Carnival?
Right now, 0 players are on The Dark Carnival, which has 75 slots. It averaged 0 players over the last seven days and peaked at 1. Over the last 48 hours, the busiest hour was 22:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.
How to join
How do you connect to The Dark Carnival?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 157.85.86.2:28015. You can also use Launch Rust on this page to open Rust via Steam and connect.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp75,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166652,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.