The Dark Force
Online 168.100.161.129:28039 checked 11m ago
Vital stats
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
Top 29% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Its 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 2, 3 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 25 Oct, 04:35 UTC3d ago | 2 | – | running | 1 |
| Sat 3 Oct, 09:37 UTC25d ago | 3 | halved by day 3 | 21.8 days | 0 |
| Thu 24 Sep, 18:41 UTC34d ago | 1 | halved by day 2 | 8.6 days | 0 |
| Wed 16 Sep, 23:36 UTC41d ago | 0 | – | 7.8 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 wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Lists and tags
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include The Dark Force?
These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include The Dark Force: Modded Rust servers, live. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Last wipe: In the last week.
What do the server tags on The Dark Force mean?
For the server browser, The Dark Force lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp80 (Max players): Slots: 80; ts0 (Group limit): No teams here; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): It's on game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.
Player counts
How does The Dark Force rank against other Rust servers?
Player hours over the last week rank The Dark Force at #6,409, within the top 29% of ranked servers.
How many players are on The Dark Force right now?
The current tally at The Dark Force: 0 players across 80 slots. Peak for the week was 2, against an average of 0 players. Look at 16:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 1 players on average.
Server details
Is The Dark Force online, and how reliable is it?
The Dark Force is live at the moment. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 3 days 16 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 100%, with 168 out of 168 hours online. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.
Does The Dark Force run smoothly?
Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 11, and it never went below 5. Entities reached a maximum of 203,327: buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 5,243 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Where is The Dark Force located?
No region is published by The Dark Force. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 168.100.161.129:28039.
Which Rust version is The Dark Force on?
On Linux, The Dark Force runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.
Wipe days
What happens on The Dark Force when wipe day comes around?
Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 2 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 3 hours in. Its recent wipes kept the crowd above half the peak until the next one 0% of the time. If it did not hold, half the peak was gone by day 2.5.
What is the wipe schedule on The Dark Force?
There is no next wipe to predict on The Dark Force, because wipes come at irregular times. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives, and every Rust server wipes with it at monthly intervals. The world it is running now dates from 3 days 18 hours.
Rules and settings
Which map does The Dark Force run?
Generated by the game with seed 825822194, the map on The Dark Force is procedural and 6,000 in size. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
What are the rules and settings on The Dark Force?
The name of The Dark Force says nothing about gather rate. The group limit goes unpublished. It runs survival, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. Oxide plugins are running on it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.
Join up
How do I join The Dark Force?
The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 168.100.161.129:28039. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.