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NoobFriendly 5x

Online 157.85.85.252:23858 checked 9m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 40 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 1
Rank#9,605top 43%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe23d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75123:0008:0017:0002:0011:0021:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

05010015020023:0008:0017:0002:0011:0021:00

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 2 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
15k10k15k20k3 Oct8 Oct13 Oct18 Oct23 Oct28 Oct

Top 43% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

too few wipes seen yet

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

2.7 days
usual gap
between real wipes
1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 1

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Mon 5 OctFri 2 Oct
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
Mon 5 Oct, 17:09 UTC23d ago 1 – running 0
Fri 2 Oct, 23:52 UTC25d ago 1 halved by day 1 2.7 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.

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The interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include NoobFriendly 5x?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include NoobFriendly 5x: Who's hot: beginner Rust servers, The 5x scene, live and Modded Rust servers, live. It appears under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Gather rate: 5x.

What do the server tags on NoobFriendly 5x mean?

For the server browser, NoobFriendly 5x lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp40 (Max players): Slots: 40; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs167781 (Build): The game build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

The players

How does NoobFriendly 5x rank against other Rust servers?

A seven-day player-hours placing of #9,605 puts NoobFriendly 5x in the top 43% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on NoobFriendly 5x right now?

The current tally at NoobFriendly 5x: 0 players across 40 slots. Peak for the week was 1, against an average of 0 players. Over the last 48 hours, the fullest hour was 10:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.

About the server

Is NoobFriendly 5x online, and how reliable is it?

NoobFriendly 5x is live at the moment. About 21 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. 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 2 October 2026.

Does NoobFriendly 5x run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 105, and it never went below 77. The world carried as many as 66,806 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 4,258 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is NoobFriendly 5x located?

There is no region from NoobFriendly 5x. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 157.85.85.252:23858.

Which Rust version is NoobFriendly 5x on?

On Linux, NoobFriendly 5x runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 167781. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

Wipe days

What happens on NoobFriendly 5x when wipe day comes around?

Recent wipes averaged a peak of 1 players at their busiest. 1 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that happened in 0% of its recent wipes. If it did not hold, half the peak was gone by day 1.

What is the wipe schedule on NoobFriendly 5x?

Too few wipes are on record for NoobFriendly 5x to reveal its rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives, and every Rust server wipes with it at monthly intervals. 23 days 5 hours is when the present world was made.

The rules

Which map does NoobFriendly 5x run?

Generated by the game with seed 471471404, the map on NoobFriendly 5x is procedural and 3,500 in size. 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 NoobFriendly 5x?

The name says it: NoobFriendly 5x gathers at 5x. Groups go up to 8 players, which is the default. It runs survival, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Players can raid and fight one another. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Oxide plugins power it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

How to join

How do I join NoobFriendly 5x?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 157.85.85.252:23858. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs167781,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp40
Max players Slots: 40.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635.
cs167781
Build The game build is 167781.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs.
^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing.

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.