Element card · group Modded · atomic number 8,089, its rank
The Dark Side
Online NA · us5 91.229.114.57:28015 checked 8m ago
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 best
Top 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.
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 | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players 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 UTC34d 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.
Similar servers
the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipesQuick answers
from the figures on this pageMap and rules
What map is in play on The Dark Side?
The map on The Dark Side is procedural at size 4,000 with seed 1337, made by the game. You can view it on RustMaps from this page, since matching size and seed produce the same map. Its map carries the name: Custom Map.
How is The Dark Side configured, and what rules apply?
No gather rate appears in the name of The Dark Side. Eight players per group is the limit, the game's default. Play runs as survival, raiding, building and gathering: the standard game. Raids and player fights are part of play here. Plugins or settings change the game, so the browser lists it under Modded. Carbon plugins are running on it. Anti-cheat is on: Valve's VAC.
About the server
In what location does The Dark Side sit?
The NA tag puts The Dark Side in North America, and its region code is us5. Rust Data Lab shows a server's stated location, not a verified position of the machine. 91.229.114.57:28015 is the address it uses.
What Rust version does The Dark Side currently run?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what The Dark Side uses. Your game needs to match the protocol to join, and Steam updates it automatically.
Does The Dark Side stay up, and how reliable is its uptime?
The Dark Side is live as of now. The uptime it reports suggests it restarted roughly 5 days 11 hours ago. It was online for 168 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, which is 100% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Data Lab was on 13 September 2026.
Is The Dark Side known for smooth running?
Server fps averaged 60 over the last 48 hours, with 60 as the lowest. The maximum entity count was 88,916, covering buildings, deployables and all else in the world. Memory use peaked at 11,614 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is caused by low fps and an increasing entity count.
Wipe days
What is the wiping pattern on The Dark Side?
There is no next wipe to predict for The Dark Side, which wipes at irregular times. The next monthly force wipe, which wipes all Rust servers, is scheduled for Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Counting back, the current world began 27 days 1 hours ago.
What does a typical wipe day on The Dark Side involve?
Recent wipes on average reached 1 players at their busiest. 1 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that held in 0% of its recent wipes. The crowd fell below half by day 1 when it didn't hold.
Tags, lists
Which meanings sit behind the tags on The Dark Side?
The game's server browser reads the tags The Dark Side publishes, which are gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival is the game here; mp25 (Max players): It has 25 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2635, so your game needs the same version; cs168909 (Build): Build number: 168909; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the standard layer; $rus5 (Region code): Its region code reads us5; ^z (Modded): You will find it under Modded: the game is altered by plugins or settings; ^y (Carbon): This server uses the Carbon plugin framework; NA (North America): The server browser files it under North America. Also in the tags are the players on now, the queue length and the world's creation time, and you can see them at the top of this page.
Where among the Rust Data Lab lists and filters does The Dark Side come up?
You will find The Dark Side on the following Rust Data Lab lists: Modded Rust servers, measured and North American Rust servers: the sample. Applying these filters on the server list returns it: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more.
Whose server is The Dark Side?
Sharing its joinmyga.me hostname with 19 other servers we track, The Dark Side is most likely run by the same operator as those.
Player numbers
How does The Dark Side compare with other servers in the rankings?
Player hours for the past seven days give The Dark Side #8,089, #1,175 in North America, and a place in the top 36% of ranked servers.
How full is The Dark Side right now?
At the moment The Dark Side has 0 of its 25 slots filled. The week's figures average 0 players and top out at 1. The busiest point in the last 48 hours came at 12:00 UTC, averaging 0 players.
How to join
How can you connect to The Dark Side?
In Rust, press F1 and enter client.connect 91.229.114.57:28015. Or click Launch Rust here to open Rust via Steam and connect automatically.