Station US-8089 · recording
The Dark Side
Online NA · us5 91.229.114.57:28015 checked 10m ago
- Players now
- 0/ 25
- 0% full
- Motion · 24 h
- M0.0■steady
- +0 players on the day
- 7-day average
- 0
- peak 1
- Rank
- #8,089
- top 36% · #1175 in NA
- Last wipe
- 27d ago
- no schedule published
- Next wipe
- –
- no rhythm it keeps
The last 48 hours, hour by hour
hourly average players · UTC- Now
- 0of 25 slots
- Motion · 24 h
- M0.0■steady+0 players
- Sharpest hour
- +0into Tue 12:00 UTC
- Peak · 48 h
- 1most players in any hour
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily 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 bestTop 36% of all ranked servers, top 63% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
no rhythm it keepsIts wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
- usual gap
- 1.8 daysbetween real wipes
- on rhythm
- 33%of its recent wipes
- wipe-day peak
- 1players, last three wipes
- crowd held
- 0%else halves by day 1
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 1 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | M | Peak | First 48 h | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 20:45 UTC FW27d ago | M0.0▲rising | 1 | – | running | 0 | |
| Fri 25 Sep, 21:28 UTC33d ago | M0.0■steady | 1 | halved by day 1 | 6 days | 1 | |
| Thu 24 Sep, 01:17 UTC34d ago | M0.0▲rising | 1 | – | 1.8 days | 0 | |
| Wed 23 Sep, 14:25 UTC35d ago | M0.0▲rising | 1 | – | 0.5 days | 0 |
Peak: the most players in the first 48 hours. M: the magnitude of the wipe, log10 of the rise from the players before it to that peak. First 48 h: its players hour by hour from the wipe. 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
the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipesQuick answers
from the figures on this pageMap and rules
Which map is running on The Dark Side?
The procedural map on The Dark Side is size 4,000 with seed 1337, generated by the game. From this page you can look at it on RustMaps, since the same size and seed give the same map. Its map carries the name Custom Map.
Which settings and rules apply on The Dark Side?
The name of The Dark Side gives no gather rate. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. In survival mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players are both allowed. The server browser lists it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. Its plugins are run through Carbon. The server has VAC on, Valve's anti-cheat.
Player counts
How many players are recorded on The Dark Side right now?
A reading taken now shows 0 players on The Dark Side, which has 25 slots. Averaged across the last seven days the population was 0 players, reaching a peak of 1. The last 48 hours show their highest activity at 12:00 UTC, averaging 0 players.
How does The Dark Side rank against other Rust servers?
The Dark Side is #1,175 in North America and #8,089 worldwide on the past week's player hours, within the top 36% of ranked servers.
Operator and location
How reliably does The Dark Side stay online?
As recorded now, The Dark Side is running. Going by the uptime figure it reports, it restarted about 5 days 11 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time across the last 7 full days: 168 of 168 hours. Its earliest appearance in the records of Rust Server Trends dates to 13 September 2026.
How well does The Dark Side perform under load?
Its average server fps over the last 48 hours was 60, and it never dropped below 60. At its highest, it carried 88,916 entities: buildings, deployables and the world's other contents. Its highest memory use was 11,614 MB. Low fps together with a growing entity count is what players experience as lag.
Where in the world is The Dark Side hosted?
Its region code is us5, and The Dark Side lists itself in North America with the NA tag. Rust Server Trends does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You reach it at 91.229.114.57:28015.
Which Rust version is The Dark Side running?
The Dark Side is running Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on a machine with Linux. You can only join when your game is on the same protocol, which Steam updates for you.
Wipe schedule
What does wipe day look like on The Dark Side?
On average, the busiest point of its recent wipes drew 1 players. The peak on the most recent wipe came 1 hours after the wipe. Half that peak was held until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. By day 1 it fell below half in the wipes where it didn't hold.
How often does The Dark Side wipe, and on which days?
There is no next wipe to predict at The Dark Side, since its wipes fall at irregular times. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe comes round, and every Rust server wipes with it. 27 days 1 hours is how long the current world has been running.
Tags
What do the server tags on The Dark Side mean?
Tags published by The Dark Side and read by the game's server browser include gmrust (Game mode): Survival in standard Rust; mp25 (Max players): Slots: 25; ts8 (Group limit): Teams max out at 8, the default set by the game; v2635 (Protocol): Game protocol 2635: to join, your game must match this version; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the standard network layer for the game, and it's used here; $rus5 (Region code): Region code: us5; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, placing it under Modded; ^y (Carbon): A plugin framework, Carbon, runs here; NA (North America): In the server browser it appears under North America. You will find its current players, queue and world creation time among the tags, displayed at the top of this page.
On which Rust Server Trends lists does The Dark Side appear?
You will find The Dark Side on the following Rust Server Trends lists: Modded Rust servers, tracked live and North America Rust servers. You will find it under these filters on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more.
Who is behind The Dark Side?
Both The Dark Side and 19 other servers we track publish a joinmyga.me hostname, so the same operator most likely runs them.
Connecting
What steps get you onto The Dark Side?
You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and typing client.connect 91.229.114.57:28015 into the console. Another route is to use Launch Rust and join from this page, which opens the game through Steam and connects you.
Magnitude scale. M = log10 of the absolute the change in players over 24 hours: M1.0 is 10 players, M2.0 is 100, M3.0 is 1,000. Classes: micro under 1, minor 1–2, light 2–3, moderate 3–4, strong 4 and over. ▲ rising, ▼ falling.