Element card · group Modded · atomic number 15,412, its rank
Hello Darkness PVE
Offline 97.171.185.161:28015 checked 15h 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 27 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is best
Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No wipe seen yet. | ||||
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 pageMap and rules
What map is in play on Hello Darkness PVE?
The map on Hello Darkness PVE is procedural at size 4,500 with seed 1470027, made by the game. Same size and seed give the same map, so this page lets you look at it on RustMaps.
What rules has Hello Darkness PVE set, and what settings are in force?
The name of Hello Darkness PVE carries no gather rate. With no change from the default, groups can hold up to 8 players. Play runs as survival, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. You can fight other players and raid them. 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.
Server facts
In what location does Hello Darkness PVE sit?
There is no region on record for Hello Darkness PVE. Rust Data Lab shows a server's stated location, not a verified position of the machine. 97.171.185.161:28015 is the address it uses.
Which Rust version is Hello Darkness PVE on?
On Windows, Hello Darkness PVE is running Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Your game needs to match the protocol to join, and Steam updates it automatically.
How dependable is Hello Darkness PVE for staying online?
Right now Hello Darkness PVE is offline, with its last appearance 15 hours ago. The uptime it reports suggests it restarted roughly 11 hours ago. The first sighting by Rust Data Lab was on 27 October 2026.
How well does Hello Darkness PVE perform?
The last 48 hours show an average of 64 server fps and a minimum of 52. The entity count reached 121,515, including buildings, deployables and all other world items. Memory use peaked at 3,223 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is caused by low fps and an increasing entity count.
Wipes and resets
When does Hello Darkness PVE wipe, and how often?
Hello Darkness PVE's wipe history on record is too thin yet to tell its rhythm. A monthly force wipe happens on every Rust server, and the next one falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 8 days 4 hours ago the current world was made.
Where it appears
How should you read the tags on Hello Darkness PVE?
gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival is the game here; mp100 (Max players): Player slots: 100; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the game's default: 8 per team; v2635 (Protocol): Protocol 2635 is required; join only if your game matches it; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game; $r? (Region code): A region code has not been set here; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework in use is Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it lists under Modded: that is the tag list Hello Darkness PVE publishes, and the game's server browser reads it. The tags carry more as well: current players, the queue and when the world was made, all shown at the top of this page.
Which Rust Data Lab filters and lists does Hello Darkness PVE appear in?
The Rust Data Lab lists that include Hello Darkness PVE are: Modded Rust servers, measured. Applying these filters on the server list returns it: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Player counts
Against other Rust servers, where does Hello Darkness PVE place?
The seven-day player-hours table has Hello Darkness PVE at #15,412, in the top 69% of ranked servers.
How many players does Hello Darkness PVE have at the moment?
Hello Darkness PVE is offline at the moment; the last sighting was 15 hours ago. The seven-day average for this server is 0 players.
Connection
What steps get you onto Hello Darkness PVE?
You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and entering client.connect 97.171.185.161:28015, or by pressing Launch Rust here, which starts the game through Steam and joins for you.