Rust Server Score · Report for the term · marked 28 October 2026 Pupil no. 157.85.86.2:28015

Name of server

The Dark Carnival

RegisterPresent

Region–

Address157.85.86.2:28015

Last checked1h ago

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Overall grade

Steady

60 out of 100, the average of 5 subjects

On the class lists: D (50), with population over 48 hours and no performance mark.

Players now 0/ 75 0% full

7-day average0peak 1

Rank#11,126top 50%

Last wipe26d agono schedule published

Next wipe8d 0hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW

Subject	Mark	Teacher's comment
Populationplayers against slots, 7-day average	0/ 100	A quiet classroom so far: 0 of 75 on average. Plenty of space to grow.
Standingrank on player hours	50/ 100	Working its way up from the back of the class: #11,126 on player hours.
Uptimehours on the list, last 48	96/ 100	Excellent attendance: on the list 46 of the last 48 hours.
Performanceserver fps, last 48 hours	100/ 100	Runs smoothly: 122 server fps on average.
Wipeskeeping the crowd after a wipe	unmarked	Too few wipes seen to mark this yet.
Momentumrank now against a week ago	52/ 100	Moving up: up 556 places this week.

A fair term, with more to come. Strongest in performance (A+); population is the one to work on (F).

How it is marked: each subject is out of 100 from the figures on this page (population is the 7-day average against the slots, standing is 100 less the top share, uptime the hours of the last 48 it was seen, performance its fps against 60, wipes the share of its wipes that kept half their crowd, momentum its rank against a week ago with 50 for no change). The grade is their average: 95 and over is an A+, 90 an A, 85 an A−, 80 a B+, 75 a B, 70 a B−, 65 a C+, 60 a C, 55 a C−, 45 a D, under 45 an F.

Progress through the term

Its players, its performance and its rank, hour by hour and day by day. Dashed red lines are its wipes.

Players

AveragePeak

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

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

RankRank in region

Top 50% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Attendance: the wipe record

1 wipe day in the last 16 weeks

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W wiped that day F the force wipe · today. From the wipes in the table below.

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 0h. The force wipe · high confidence

wipe-day peak1players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

8d 0hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
36d 0hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

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

Wiped	Peak	Crowd	Lasted	Players before
Thu 1 Oct, 23:41 UTC FW26d ago	1	–	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.

Similar servers

classmates: the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes

Rusty Moose |EU Mondays|

EU · groups of 12+ · weekly · 550 on average

636 / 675

Rustoria.co - EU East Long

EU · groups of 12+ · monthly · 318 on average

485 / 525

Rusty Moose |EU Main|

EU · groups of 12+ · weekly · 300 on average

59 / 250

Rustoria.co - EU Main

EU · groups of 16+ · weekly · 300 on average

36 / 250

Rustafied.com - EU Friday

EU · groups of 16+ · weekly · 269 on average

138 / 200

Rustoria.co - EU East Medium

EU · groups of 12+ · biweekly · 257 on average

255 / 300

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

About the server

Which region is The Dark Carnival based in?

The Dark Carnival leaves the region unpublished. Rust Server Score reports the location a server gives; it does not check where the machine actually is. 157.85.86.2:28015 is the address to use.

Is The Dark Carnival up, and how steady is its uptime?

The server is up: The Dark Carnival is online now. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 9 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours. It was first seen by Rust Server Score on 13 September 2026.

How well does The Dark Carnival run?

The average over the last 48 hours was 122 server fps, and it never went below 103. Up to 119,615 entities were in the world, covering buildings, deployables and the rest. Memory use reached up to 5,013 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and entities pile up.

Which Rust version is The Dark Carnival running?

The server The Dark Carnival is on Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 under Linux. You need the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating your game.

Wipe cycle

How frequently does The Dark Carnival wipe its map?

Once a month, The Dark Carnival wipes with the force wipe. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC brings the force wipe, its next wipe, when every Rust server resets. The world it runs now was created 26 days 18 hours.

What happens on The Dark Carnival when wipe day arrives?

The average peak on its recent wipes was 1 players. The crowd on the latest wipe was largest 0 hours after it began.

Player count

Where does The Dark Carnival place in the wider field of Rust servers?

In the top 50% of all ranked servers, The Dark Carnival sits at #11,126 for player hours over the last seven days.

Is The Dark Carnival a busy server?

The Dark Carnival is showing 0 players right now, with 75 slots in total. It peaked at 1 and averaged 0 players over the last seven days.

Lists and filters

What do The Dark Carnival's tags stand for?

gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival, played by the standard rules; mp75 (Max players): The server holds 75 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the game's standard setting; v2635 (Protocol): To get in, your game needs to be on the same version: the protocol is 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): This is RakNet: the network layer Rust normally uses; $r? (Region code): There is no region code on this server are the tags The Dark Carnival publishes, and the game's server browser reads them. The top of this page also shows its current players, any queue, and when the world was created, all from its tags.

Which Rust Server Score filters and lists feature The Dark Carnival?

These Rust Server Score lists count The Dark Carnival among them: Best community servers, graded. You can find it under these server-list filters: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.

Map and rules

Which rules does The Dark Carnival enforce, and what are its settings?

The name of The Dark Carnival gives no gather rate. With no change from the game default, groups take up to 8 players. survival is the mode here, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Raiding and PvP are both permitted. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.

Which map is in play on The Dark Carnival?

The Dark Carnival runs a game-generated procedural map at size 4,500, seed 1201455836. Because size and seed match, the map is the same each time, and this page links to it on RustMaps.

How to join

What is the way to join The Dark Carnival?

To connect, start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 157.85.86.2:28015. Or click Launch Rust here, which launches Rust through Steam and joins you.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp75,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Players now (cp), the queue (qp) and the wipe time (born) are in the tag string too; they change every few minutes and are shown at the top of the page. Flag meanings are Facepunch's.