Darkstar 5X Experimental

Online 172.240.229.71:28065 checked 12m ago

5x monthly wipes moddedoxide
0/ 50
players now
0% full
0
7-day average
peak 1
#14,322
rank
top 65%
27d ago
last wipe
monthly schedule
4h
next wipe
Thu 1 Oct, 18:00 UTC FW

Players

AveragePeak
0123414:0023:0008:0018:0003:0012:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

05010015020014:0023:0008:0018:0003:0012:00

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.

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k20 Sep22 Sep24 Sep27 Sep29 Sep1 Oct

Top 65% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Wipe schedule

Next wipe Thursday 1 October, 18:00 UTC, in 4h. The force wipe

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
No wipe seen yet.

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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Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Wipes

What is the wipe schedule on Darkstar 5X Experimental?

Darkstar 5X Experimental's next wipe is an estimate from the force wipe. Its next wipe is the force wipe on Thursday 1 October at 18:00 UTC, when every Rust server wipes. Its current world was made 27 days 14 hours ago. It publishes a monthly wipe schedule in its tags.

Players

How busy is Darkstar 5X Experimental?

Right now Darkstar 5X Experimental has 0 players on 50 slots. Over the last seven days it averaged 0 players and peaked at 1.

How does Darkstar 5X Experimental rank against other Rust servers?

Darkstar 5X Experimental is #14,322 on player hours over the last seven days, in the top 65% of all ranked servers.

Rules and map

What are the rules and settings on Darkstar 5X Experimental?

Darkstar 5X Experimental runs 5x gather, going by its name. Groups can have up to 8 players, the game's default. Its game mode is survival, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Players can fight and raid each other. It is listed under Modded in the server browser: plugins or settings change the game. It runs Oxide plugins. Valve's anti-cheat, VAC, is on.

Which map does Darkstar 5X Experimental run?

Darkstar 5X Experimental runs a procedural map, generated by the game, of size 3,500 with seed 1162579596. The same size and seed give the same map, so it can be looked at on RustMaps from this page.

Tags and lists

What do the server tags on Darkstar 5X Experimental mean?

Darkstar 5X Experimental publishes these tags, which the game's server browser reads: gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival; mp50 (Max players): 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): At most 8 per team, the game default; v2633 (Protocol): Game protocol 2633: your game has to be on the same version to join; cs162929 (Build): Game build 162929; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's standard network layer; $r? (Region code): No region code set; ^m (Monthly): Wipes once a month, with Facepunch's force wipe; ^o (Oxide): Runs Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework; ^z (Modded): Listed under Modded: plugins or settings change the game. Its players now, its queue and the time its world was made are in the tags too, and are shown at the top of this page.

Which Zongarust lists and filters include Darkstar 5X Experimental?

Darkstar 5X Experimental fits these Zongarust lists: Best 5x Rust servers and Best modded Rust servers. On the server list it comes up under these filters: Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Gather rate: 5x.

The server

Where is Darkstar 5X Experimental located?

Darkstar 5X Experimental publishes no region. Zongarust shows where a server says it is; it does not look up where the machine stands. Its address is 172.240.229.71:28065.

Is Darkstar 5X Experimental online, and how reliable is it?

Darkstar 5X Experimental is online right now. It last restarted about 2 hours ago, going by the uptime it reports. Over the last 7 full days it was up 100% of the time, 168 of 168 hours. Zongarust first saw it on 13 September 2026.

Does Darkstar 5X Experimental run smoothly?

Over the last 48 hours it ran at 135 server fps on average, never below 116. It carried up to 71,929 entities: buildings, deployables and everything else in the world. It used up to 2,140 MB of memory. Low fps and a climbing entity count are what players feel as lag.

Which version of Rust does Darkstar 5X Experimental run?

Darkstar 5X Experimental runs Rust network protocol 2633 and build 162929 on Windows. Your game has to be on the same protocol to join; Steam updates it for you.

Joining

How do I join Darkstar 5X Experimental?

Start Rust, press F1 to open the console and enter client.connect 172.240.229.71:28065. Or use Launch Rust and join on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2633,^m,gmrust,cs162929,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Standard Rust survival.
mp50
Max players 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit At most 8 per team, the game default.
v2633
Protocol Game protocol 2633: your game has to be on the same version to join.
cs162929
Build Game build 162929.
ptrak
Networking RakNet, the game's standard network layer.
$r?
Region code No region code set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Wipes once a month, with Facepunch's force wipe.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Runs Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework.
^z
Modded Listed under Modded: plugins or settings change the game.

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.