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The count
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Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
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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 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
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Top 63% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Coming up · wipe schedule
force wipes only
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 17h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 22:30 UTC FW
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.
Recent wipes on this server averaged a peak of 0 players at their busiest. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 0 hours in.
Nothing wipes Darkstar 5X Experimental but the force wipe, once a month. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC brings the force wipe, its next wipe and one that hits every Rust server. 26 days 2 hours have passed since this world was generated. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
These are the Rust Live Stats lists Darkstar 5X Experimental fits: 5x Rust servers, live now and Modded Rust servers live now. These filters on the server list bring it up: Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Gather rate: 5x.
gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival, in the Rust style; mp50 (Max players): Slots: 50; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team at most, the game's default setting; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2635, so match that version to join; cs168909 (Build): Build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer — the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code is set here; ^m (Monthly): It wipes with Facepunch's force wipe, once each month; ^o (Oxide): It runs the plugin framework Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Modded: plugins or changed settings alter the game: that is the tag list Darkstar 5X Experimental publishes for the game's server browser. Players now, queue length and world creation time are carried in the tags too, and appear at the top of this page.
0 of Darkstar 5X Experimental's 50 slots are filled right now. The seven-day average is 0 players, with a peak of 1.
Player hours over seven days put Darkstar 5X Experimental at #13,924, in the top 63% of all ranked servers.
Gather rates on Darkstar 5X Experimental are 5x, as its name states. No custom limit is set, so groups hold the default 8 players. It runs survival, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. Modded is its browser category, where plugins or settings change the game. The plugin load is Oxide. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
A procedural map of 3,500 with seed 1162579596, generated by the game, runs on Darkstar 5X Experimental. RustMaps shows it from this page, since equal size and seed give an equal map.
No region is published by Darkstar 5X Experimental. Where the machine stands is not checked by Rust Live Stats; only the location a server states is shown. Connect to 172.240.229.71:28065.
It never went below 88 server fps in the last 48 hours, averaging 120. Entity count reached 72,774: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Up to 2,322 MB of memory was used. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.
The setup on Darkstar 5X Experimental is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 with Windows. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
At the time of this update, Darkstar 5X Experimental is live. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 13 hours ago. 168 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 100% uptime. Rust Live Stats has tracked it since 13 September 2026.
Enter client.connect 172.240.229.71:28065 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.