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5X Inventor - Challenging PVE

Online NA 157.85.86.162:25235 checked 7m ago

5x biweekly wipes moddedoxidepve
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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 150 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 1
Rank#11,964top 54% · #1367 in NA
RegionNANA · group 8, the default
Last wipe6d agobiweekly schedule
Next wipe7d 21hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123422:0007:0016:0001:0010:0020:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

05010015020022:0007:0016:0001:0010:0020:00

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 17 Sep. 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
15k10k15k20k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 54% of all ranked servers, top 74% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

from its schedule tag

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 21h. The force wipe · high confidence

13.2 days
usual gap
between real wipes
33%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 2

Coming wipes

7d 21hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
21d 19hThu 19 Nov, 16:33 UTC
35d 21hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 22 OctSat 3 OctSun 20 Sep
00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 26 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 22 Oct, 16:33 UTC6d ago 1 – running 0
Sat 3 Oct, 17:56 UTC25d ago 0 – 18.9 days 0
Sun 20 Sep, 12:57 UTC38d ago 1 halved by day 2 13.2 days 0
Fri 18 Sep, 12:39 UTC40d ago 0 – 2 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.

Server tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include 5X Inventor - Challenging PVE?

These Rust Pop Watch lists include 5X Inventor - Challenging PVE: The 5x scene, live, Modded Rust servers, live, Rust PvE servers, ranked by who's hot and North America: who's hot right now. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Biweekly ^b, PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Every two weeks; Last wipe: In the last week; Gather rate: 5x.

What do the server tags on 5X Inventor - Challenging PVE mean?

These are the tags 5X Inventor - Challenging PVE publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp150 (Max players): There are 150 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs167781 (Build): Game build: 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^b (Biweekly): It wipes on a two-week cycle; ^p (PvE): The danger is the world, not other players: no PvP here; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded; NA (North America): Its place in the server browser is under North America. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

The players

How does 5X Inventor - Challenging PVE rank against other Rust servers?

For the last seven days of player hours, 5X Inventor - Challenging PVE sits at #11,964, inside the top 54% of ranked servers and at #1,367 in North America.

How many players are on 5X Inventor - Challenging PVE right now?

5X Inventor - Challenging PVE is holding 0 players, with 150 slots in total. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 1.

About the server

Is 5X Inventor - Challenging PVE online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, 5X Inventor - Challenging PVE is online. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 5 days 4 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 138, a 82% uptime. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does 5X Inventor - Challenging PVE run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 120 server fps, with a low of 101. At its peak it held 98,501 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Up to 7,076 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is 5X Inventor - Challenging PVE located?

5X Inventor - Challenging PVE uses its NA tag to list itself in North America. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. You'll find it at 157.85.86.162:25235.

Which Rust version is 5X Inventor - Challenging PVE on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 167781 is the version 5X Inventor - Challenging PVE runs on Linux. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

Wipe times

What happens on 5X Inventor - Challenging PVE when wipe day comes around?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 1 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 26 hours after it began. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. In the wipes that didn't hold, the crowd sank below half by day 2.

What is the wipe schedule on 5X Inventor - Challenging PVE?

Its tag sets the prediction, because 5X Inventor - Challenging PVE's recorded wipes are too few to confirm the schedule. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. The world it is running now dates from 6 days 4 hours. Its tags set out a wipe schedule of one wipe every two weeks.

Rules and settings

Which map does 5X Inventor - Challenging PVE run?

The procedural map on 5X Inventor - Challenging PVE measures 4,000 and comes from the game with seed 28103. 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 5X Inventor - Challenging PVE?

Going by its name, 5X Inventor - Challenging PVE runs 5x gather. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. no fighting other players: that is the pve mode. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. The plugin count is Oxide. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Join up

How do I join 5X Inventor - Challenging PVE?

Enter client.connect 157.85.86.162:25235 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp150,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^b,NA,^p,gmrust,cs167781,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on.
mp150
Max players There are 150 slots.
ts8
Group limit The default team size of 8 applies here.
v2635
Protocol To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635.
cs167781
Build Game build: 167781.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region code has been set.

Wipe schedule

^b
Biweekly It wipes on a two-week cycle.

Gameplay

^p
PvE The danger is the world, not other players: no PvP here.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, is what it runs.
^z
Modded Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded.

Region

NA
North America Its place in the server browser is under North America.

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.