StatusLive Servers online11,713 Players43,388 Populated3,068 Wiped · 3 h103 Interval5 min Date29 OCT 2026

DWG RG-S8148Server sheetchecked 9m ago

The Dark Side

Online NA · us5 91.229.114.57:28015 checked 9m ago

moddedcarbon
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Players now 0/ 25 0% full
7-day average0peak 1
Rank#8,148top 37% · #1177 in NA
Last wipe27d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no rhythm it keeps
Fig. 1

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75102:0011:0020:0004:0013:0023:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Fig. 1Players on The Dark Side
Fig. 2

Server performance

02040608002:0011:0020:0004:0013:0023:00

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.

Fig. 2FPS, entities and memory
Fig. 3

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 37% of all ranked servers, top 63% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Fig. 3Rank on player hours, daily
Schedule

Wipe schedule

no rhythm it keeps

Its wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

usual gap1.8 daysbetween real wipes
on rhythm33%of its recent wipes
wipe-day peak1players, last three wipes
crowd held0%else halves by day 1

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 1 OctFri 25 SepThu 24 Sep
00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h
Fig. 4Players each hour from the hour of the wipe

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 1 hours in.

ScheduleExpected wipes
Log

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 20:45 UTC FW27d ago 1 – running 0
Fri 25 Sep, 21:28 UTC33d ago 1 halved by day 1 6 days 1
Thu 24 Sep, 01:17 UTC35d ago 1 – 1.8 days 0
Wed 23 Sep, 14:25 UTC35d ago 1 – 0.5 days 0

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.

Table 1Wipe log
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General notes

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Server data

Is The Dark Side online, and what uptime has been recorded?

At this moment The Dark Side is online. Counted from its reported uptime, the last restart was about 5 days 13 hours ago. For the last 7 full days the record is 167 of 168 hours up, 99% of the time. The first sighting of it by Rust Graphs was on 13 September 2026.

What does the recorded performance of The Dark Side show?

60 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never under 60. Counted at its highest: 88,916 entities, buildings, deployables and the rest of the world included. The highest memory use recorded is 12,240 MB. Players feel low fps and a climbing entity count as lag.

What location is recorded for The Dark Side?

In North America, The Dark Side appears with the NA tag; the region code given is us5. No lookup of the machine's location is done: Rust Graphs shows where a server says it is. 91.229.114.57:28015 is its address.

What Rust version is recorded for The Dark Side?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux: that is what The Dark Side runs. The same protocol is required for joining, and Steam updates your game to it.

Counts

What does the population history show for The Dark Side?

0 of 25 slots on The Dark Side are taken at the latest refresh. Averaged across seven days, the player count is 0, with a peak of 1. Over the last 48 hours the busiest hour was 12:00 UTC, at an average of 0 players.

What rank has been recorded for The Dark Side?

The same seven-day player-hour count places The Dark Side at #1,177 within North America, #8,148 across all ranked servers and in the top 37% of them.

Schedules

On The Dark Side, what does the data show for wipe day?

The recent wipes averaged a busiest count of 1 players. 1 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked. The crowd stayed above half the peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. On the wipes where it did not hold, the crowd dropped below half by day 1.

What wipe schedule has been recorded for The Dark Side?

The Dark Side wipes at times that follow no pattern, so no next wipe can be predicted. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the date of the next monthly force wipe, when all Rust servers wipe. The current world has been in use since 27 days 4 hours ago.

Rules and settings

Which settings does The Dark Side run, and what rules?

Gather rate for The Dark Side: not stated in the name. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. survival, the standard game: gather, build, raid, is the game mode. PvP and raiding are on. Listed as Modded in the server browser: the game is changed by plugins or settings. Plugins run: Carbon. Anti-cheat: VAC, from Valve, is on.

On which map is The Dark Side played?

Size 4,000 with seed 1337: that is the procedural map The Dark Side runs, generated by the game. Size and seed fix the map, so this page links it on RustMaps for viewing. The name of the map reads: Custom Map.

Filters

On Rust Graphs, which lists and filters contain The Dark Side?

The Rust Graphs lists that carry The Dark Side are: Modded Rust servers and Rust server list: North America. It is returned by these filters on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more.

Which meaning is attached to each tag on The Dark Side?

The game's server browser reads these tags from The Dark Side: gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival, as Rust plays; mp25 (Max players): 25 player slots; ts8 (Group limit): The team limit is 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): Join only if your game is on protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): Standard network layer: RakNet; $rus5 (Region code): us5 is the server's region code; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings; the listing is Modded; ^y (Carbon): Plugin framework: Carbon; NA (North America): The server browser lists it under North America. Current players, queue length and world creation time are in the tags as well, and appear at the top of this page.

Which operator runs The Dark Side?

A joinmyga.me hostname is published by The Dark Side, as it is by 18 other servers we track; the same operator most likely runs them.

Connect

How is The Dark Side joined?

In Rust, press F1 and type client.connect 91.229.114.57:28015 in the console. Launch Rust on this page also works: Rust opens through Steam and connects you.

NotesAnswered from the figures
Key

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp25,ptrak,$rus5,v2635,NA,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^z,^y

Game

gmrust
Game mode Standard survival, as Rust plays.
mp25
Max players 25 player slots.
ts8
Group limit The team limit is 8, which is the game default.
v2635
Protocol Join only if your game is on protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build Build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking Standard network layer: RakNet.
$rus5
Region code us5 is the server's region code.

Mods and access

^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings; the listing is Modded.
^y
Carbon Plugin framework: Carbon.

Region

NA
North America The server browser lists it under North America.

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.

KeyTag string decoded