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Kova AU 5X PVE | Skills | Raidable Bases | Quests

Online 51.161.199.163:25567 checked 6m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 75 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 5
Rank#4,974top 22%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe27d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 8hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
00.250.50.75111:0020:0005:0014:0000:0009:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

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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 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
12k4k6k8k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 22% 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 7d 8h. The force wipe · high confidence

4
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

7d 8hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
35d 8hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 4, 4 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 22:45 UTC FW27d ago 4 – 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

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Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include Kova AU 5X PVE | Skills | Raidable Bases | Quests?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include Kova AU 5X PVE | Skills | Raidable Bases | Quests: The 5x scene, live, Oceania Rust servers, live, Modded Rust servers, live and Rust PvE servers, ranked by who's hot. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: Oceania; Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Monthly ^m, PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Gather rate: 5x.

What do the server tags on Kova AU 5X PVE | Skills | Raidable Bases | Quests mean?

For the server browser, Kova AU 5X PVE | Skills | Raidable Bases | Quests lists these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp75 (Max players): There are 75 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): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^m (Monthly): A monthly wipe, synced to Facepunch's force wipe; ^p (PvE): The danger is the world, not other players: no PvP here; ^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. Current players, queue and world age are in the tags too, displayed at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does Kova AU 5X PVE | Skills | Raidable Bases | Quests rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place Kova AU 5X PVE | Skills | Raidable Bases | Quests at #4,974, in the top 22% of all ranked servers.

How many players are on Kova AU 5X PVE | Skills | Raidable Bases | Quests right now?

The current tally at Kova AU 5X PVE | Skills | Raidable Bases | Quests: 0 players across 75 slots. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 5. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 22:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.

Server facts

Is Kova AU 5X PVE | Skills | Raidable Bases | Quests online, and how reliable is it?

As of now, Kova AU 5X PVE | Skills | Raidable Bases | Quests is online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 21 hours ago. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours in total. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 19 September 2026.

Does Kova AU 5X PVE | Skills | Raidable Bases | Quests run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 213 server fps, with a low of 116. The world carried as many as 57,466 entities, including buildings and deployables. Up to 2,710 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is Kova AU 5X PVE | Skills | Raidable Bases | Quests located?

No region tag comes from Kova AU 5X PVE | Skills | Raidable Bases | Quests, but its name points to Oceania. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 51.161.199.163:25567.

Which Rust version is Kova AU 5X PVE | Skills | Raidable Bases | Quests on?

On Linux, Kova AU 5X PVE | Skills | Raidable Bases | Quests runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

Wipe times

What happens on Kova AU 5X PVE | Skills | Raidable Bases | Quests when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 4 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 4 hours after it began.

What is the wipe schedule on Kova AU 5X PVE | Skills | Raidable Bases | Quests?

Once a month is the whole wipe story for Kova AU 5X PVE | Skills | Raidable Bases | Quests, tied to the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives: its next wipe, and one that hits every Rust server. 27 days 11 hours is when the present world was made. The tags hold a monthly wipe schedule.

Rules and settings

Which map does Kova AU 5X PVE | Skills | Raidable Bases | Quests run?

The procedural map on Kova AU 5X PVE | Skills | Raidable Bases | Quests measures 3,000 and comes from the game with seed 1. 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 Kova AU 5X PVE | Skills | Raidable Bases | Quests?

Going by its name, Kova AU 5X PVE | Skills | Raidable Bases | Quests 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. Oxide plugins power it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Join up

How do I join Kova AU 5X PVE | Skills | Raidable Bases | Quests?

Enter client.connect 51.161.199.163:25567 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://discord.com/invite/kQU2wC2rqD.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp75,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^p,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp75
Max players There are 75 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 Game build: 168909.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly A monthly wipe, synced to Facepunch's force wipe.

Gameplay

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

Mods and access

^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.

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.