Darkstar 5X Experimental
Online 172.240.229.71:28065 checked 10m 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 63% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 14h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 22:30 UTC FW26d ago | 0 | – | 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.
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 Darkstar 5X Experimental?
These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include Darkstar 5X Experimental: The 5x scene, live and Modded Rust servers, live. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Gather rate: 5x.
What do the server tags on Darkstar 5X Experimental mean?
For the server browser, Darkstar 5X Experimental lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Plain vanilla Rust survival, nothing bolted on; mp50 (Max players): It has 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; 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; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.
Population
How does Darkstar 5X Experimental rank against other Rust servers?
The last seven days of player hours place Darkstar 5X Experimental at #13,940, in the top 63% of all ranked servers.
How many players are on Darkstar 5X Experimental right now?
Darkstar 5X Experimental is holding 0 players, with 50 slots in total. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 1.
About the server
Is Darkstar 5X Experimental online, and how reliable is it?
As of now, Darkstar 5X Experimental is online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 16 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 168, a 100% uptime. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.
Does Darkstar 5X Experimental run smoothly?
The 48-hour average was 121 server fps, with a low of 95. The world carried as many as 72,774 entities, including buildings and deployables. The highest memory usage was 2,322 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Where is Darkstar 5X Experimental located?
There is no region from Darkstar 5X Experimental. 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 172.240.229.71:28065.
Which Rust version is Darkstar 5X Experimental on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version Darkstar 5X Experimental runs on Windows. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe days
What happens on Darkstar 5X Experimental when wipe day comes around?
The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 0 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 0 hours in.
What is the wipe schedule on Darkstar 5X Experimental?
Once a month is the whole wipe story for Darkstar 5X Experimental, tied to the force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. 26 days 6 hours is when the present world was made. Its tags commit to wipes each month.
Map and rules
Which map does Darkstar 5X Experimental run?
Generated by the game with seed 1162579596, the map on Darkstar 5X Experimental is procedural and 3,500 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 Darkstar 5X Experimental?
Gather comes at 5x on Darkstar 5X Experimental, according to its name. 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. Plugins or settings alter the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. The plugin count is Oxide. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.
How to join
How do I join Darkstar 5X Experimental?
Enter client.connect 172.240.229.71:28065 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically.