The Dark Force
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 29%.
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
168.100.161.129:28039
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
Up 2313 places on last week. Top 29% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 168.100.161.129:28039
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 80
- Group limit
- teams off
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 3 Oct 2026, 09:37 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.
Server rules
What settings does The Dark Force use?
There is no gather rate in the name of The Dark Force. No group limit is published. survival is the game mode, the default game of gathering, building and raiding. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser lists it as Modded: plugins or settings alter the game. You find Oxide plugins in use. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What's the map on The Dark Force?
The map on The Dark Force is procedural, size 6,000, generated with seed 825822194 by the game. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, as the same size and seed make the same map.
Tags
What are the tags on The Dark Force for?
These tags come from The Dark Force and go straight into the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp80 (Max players): 80 players fit in; ts0 (Group limit): No teams on this server; v2634 (Protocol): Get on protocol 2634 or the door stays shut; cs166652 (Build): Game build is 166652; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which the game uses as standard; $r? (Region code): No region code on record; ^o (Oxide): It uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): It is Modded: plugins or settings make the difference. From the tags, this page also pulls its live player count, its queue and its world's creation time, and puts them at the top.
What Boongarust lists feature The Dark Force?
The Boongarust lists that take The Dark Force are: Top modded Rust servers. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server info
How smooth is The Dark Force?
The 48-hour average was 9 server fps; the floor was 5. The entity count reached 202,010: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Memory use peaked at 5,663 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and entities pile up.
What's the location of The Dark Force?
No region is published by The Dark Force. 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 168.100.161.129:28039.
What's the uptime like on The Dark Force?
Right now The Dark Force is live. The uptime it reports suggests a restart around 4 days 22 hours ago. Uptime over the last 7 full days came to 100%, 168 hours from 168. 13 September 2026 is when Boongarust first spotted it.
What Rust version is The Dark Force using?
On Linux, The Dark Force runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652. Steam keeps your game updated; you need the same protocol to connect.
Wipe info
What happens on wipe day at The Dark Force?
1 players was the average peak on recent wipes. 32 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak. In 0% of recent wipes, half the peak was the floor until the next wipe. If it did not hold, half the peak was gone by day 2.
How often does The Dark Force wipe?
There is no predicting the next wipe: The Dark Force wipes at irregular times. The monthly force wipe hits every Rust server, and the next one lands on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 5 days ago this server built its current world.
Player counts
Where does The Dark Force sit in the rankings?
Player hours over seven days put The Dark Force at #6,836, in the top 29% of all ranked servers.
How many players are on The Dark Force?
Right now, 0 players are on The Dark Force, which has 80 slots. The average over the last seven days was 0 players, with a peak of 3. The busiest time in the last 48 hours was 23:00 UTC, with an average of 1 players.
How to join
What's the process to join The Dark Force?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 168.100.161.129:28039. 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 mp80,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166652,ts0,^o^z.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.