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Dark Void | Custom PvE | NPCs + Events | Hardcore

Online 24.235.3.78:28015 checked 8m ago

monthly wipes moddedoxidepvehardcore
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Atomic mass · players now 4/ 100 4% full Room to join
7-day average2peak 7
Rank · atomic number#2,303top 10%
Last wipe26d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe8d 12hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Result 01

Players

Method
Every five minutes for the last two hours, from the Steam server list; hourly average and peak over 48 hours; daily average and peak over 90 days. UTC. Dashed lines are its wipes and the force wipes.
Result
AveragePeak
0246807:0019:0003:0012:0020:0005:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Result 02

Server performance

Method
Asked of the server itself, hour by hour and day by day: its frame rate, the entities in its world and the memory it holds.
Result
05010015020007:0019:0003:0012:0020:0005:00

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.

Result 03

Rank

Result

daily · 1 is best

RankRank in region
11k2k3k4k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 10% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

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Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 12h. The force wipe · high confidence

wipe-day peak20players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

  1. 8d 12hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
  2. 36d 12hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

05101520+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 20, 35 hours in.

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Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 18:16 UTC FW26d ago 20 – 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.

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Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Settings and map

What map is in play on Dark Void | Custom PvE | NPCs + Events | Hardcore?

Dark Void | Custom PvE | NPCs + Events | Hardcore runs a procedural map of size 4,096; the game generates it. Its map carries the name: Custom Map.

What settings and rules apply on Dark Void | Custom PvE | NPCs + Events | Hardcore?

No gather rate appears in the name of Dark Void | Custom PvE | NPCs + Events | Hardcore. With no change from the default, groups can hold up to 8 players. hardcore is the game mode, Facepunch's toughest setting. Raids and player fights are part of play here. The server browser lists it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. Oxide plugins are running on it. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.

About the server

What region hosts Dark Void | Custom PvE | NPCs + Events | Hardcore?

Nothing about a region is published by Dark Void | Custom PvE | NPCs + Events | Hardcore. What a server states is what Rust Data Lab shows for location; no lookup of the machine's whereabouts is made. 24.235.3.78:28015 is the address it uses.

On what Rust version does Dark Void | Custom PvE | NPCs + Events | Hardcore operate?

On Linux, Dark Void | Custom PvE | NPCs + Events | Hardcore is running Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. The protocol must match for you to join; Steam will update your game.

Does Dark Void | Custom PvE | NPCs + Events | Hardcore stay up, and how reliable is its uptime?

Dark Void | Custom PvE | NPCs + Events | Hardcore is live as of now. According to the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 18 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, 165 of 168 hours were online, giving 98% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Data Lab was on 13 September 2026.

Does Dark Void | Custom PvE | NPCs + Events | Hardcore hold a steady performance?

In the last 48 hours, it averaged 104 server fps, with a low of 65. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to as many as 113,397 entities. Up to 3,769 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Wipe days

How often does a wipe happen on Dark Void | Custom PvE | NPCs + Events | Hardcore, and at what time?

The only wipe on Dark Void | Custom PvE | NPCs + Events | Hardcore is the monthly force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, this server wipes again: that is the force wipe that resets all Rust servers. The world it is running now dates from 26 days 12 hours ago. A monthly wipe schedule is what its tags publish.

On Dark Void | Custom PvE | NPCs + Events | Hardcore, what happens when wipe day arrives?

Recent wipes on average reached 20 players at their busiest. 35 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked.

Lists and tags

What should you understand from the tags Dark Void | Custom PvE | NPCs + Events | Hardcore carries?

These are the tags Dark Void | Custom PvE | NPCs + Events | Hardcore makes public for the server browser to read: gmhardcore (Game mode): A harsher ruleset, hardcore; mp100 (Max players): It has 100 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): Protocol 2635 is required; join only if your game matches it; cs168909 (Build): Build number: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game; $r? (Region code): The region field is left blank; ^m (Monthly): Wipes happen monthly, at the force wipe; ^p (PvE): You fight the world, not other players; ^o (Oxide): Plugins run through Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it lists under Modded. The tags carry more as well: current players, the queue and when the world was made, all shown at the top of this page.

Where among the Rust Data Lab lists and filters does Dark Void | Custom PvE | NPCs + Events | Hardcore come up?

You will find Dark Void | Custom PvE | NPCs + Events | Hardcore on the following Rust Data Lab lists: Modded Rust servers, measured and Best Rust PvE servers, measured live. Applying these filters on the server list returns it: Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE and Hardcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m, PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.

Population

How does Dark Void | Custom PvE | NPCs + Events | Hardcore compare with other servers in the rankings?

Player hours over the last week put Dark Void | Custom PvE | NPCs + Events | Hardcore at #2,303, inside the top 10% of ranked servers.

How full is Dark Void | Custom PvE | NPCs + Events | Hardcore right now?

At the moment Dark Void | Custom PvE | NPCs + Events | Hardcore has 4 of its 100 slots filled. The week's figures average 2 players and top out at 7. Over 48 hours, the highest average fell at 04:00 UTC, at 7 players.

How to join

What steps get you onto Dark Void | Custom PvE | NPCs + Events | Hardcore?

In Rust, press F1 and enter client.connect 24.235.3.78:28015. Or click Launch Rust here to open Rust via Steam and connect automatically. For more, visit https://discord.com/invite/mfqMSTTT7k.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp100,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^p,gmhardcore,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmhardcore
Game mode A harsher ruleset, hardcore.
mp100
Max players It has 100 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2635
Protocol Protocol 2635 is required; join only if your game matches it.
cs168909
Build Build number: 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game.
$r?
Region code The region field is left blank.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Wipes happen monthly, at the force wipe.

Gameplay

^p
PvE You fight the world, not other players.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Plugins run through Oxide (uMod).
^z
Modded Plugins or settings alter the game, so it lists under Modded.

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.