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Dark Continent

Online 157.85.88.206:25426 checked 11m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 40 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 1
Rank#12,294top 56%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe7d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe8d 23hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123420:0005:0014:0000:0009:0018:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

010020030040020:0005:0014:0000:0009:0018:00

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 19 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.

Climbing the charts

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k19 Oct21 Oct22 Oct24 Oct25 Oct27 Oct

Top 56% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 23h. The force wipe · high confidence

1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

8d 23hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
36d 23hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

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

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Tue 20 Oct, 03:50 UTC7d ago 1 – running 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.

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The interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Dark Continent?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include Dark Continent: Community servers, by the numbers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Monthly ^m; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

What do the server tags on Dark Continent mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from Dark Continent: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp40 (Max players): There are 40 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2634; cs167781 (Build): Game build: 167781; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

The players

How does Dark Continent rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #12,294 puts Dark Continent in the top 56% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on Dark Continent right now?

Dark Continent is holding 0 players, with 40 slots in total. Peak for the week was 1, against an average of 0 players.

About the server

Is Dark Continent online, and how reliable is it?

Dark Continent is live at the moment. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 31 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 132, a 79% uptime. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 19 October 2026.

Does Dark Continent run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 240, and it never went below 239. Entities reached a maximum of 17,318: buildings, deployables and everything else. The highest memory usage was 2,953 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is Dark Continent located?

No region is published by Dark Continent. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 157.85.88.206:25426.

Which Rust version is Dark Continent on?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 is the version Dark Continent runs on Linux. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

The wipe schedule

What happens on Dark Continent when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 1 players at their busiest. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 1 hours after it began.

What is the wipe schedule on Dark Continent?

Once a month is the whole wipe story for Dark Continent, tied to the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 7 days 15 hours is when the present world was made. Its tags commit to wipes each month.

The rules

Which map does Dark Continent run?

The procedural map on Dark Continent measures 2,000 and comes from the game with seed 50000. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map.

What are the rules and settings on Dark Continent?

Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on Dark Continent. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Players can raid and fight one another. Community is its listing in the server browser. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Join up

How do I join Dark Continent?

Enter client.connect 157.85.88.206:25426 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically. For more, see https://www.facebook.com/NEKOPH.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,gmrust,cs167781,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp40
Max players There are 40 slots.
ts8
Group limit The default team size of 8 applies here.
v2634
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2634.
cs167781
Build Game build: 167781.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code Region code left blank.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe.

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.