Darkstar 5X Experimental
172.240.229.71:28065 checked 12m ago
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
daily · 1 is bestTop 71% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 22d 18h. 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
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 22:30 UTC FW12d 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
Quick answers
Server rules
What settings does Darkstar 5X Experimental run?
Darkstar 5X Experimental goes by 5x gather, as its name says. That is the game's default: groups of up to 8 players. survival is its mode, gather, build, raid: the regular game. Other players can be fought and raided. This one sits under Modded in the browser: the game is changed by plugins or settings. The plugins it runs number Oxide. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, from Valve.
What is the map on Darkstar 5X Experimental?
A procedural map, size 3,500 with seed 1162579596, generated by the game, is what Darkstar 5X Experimental runs. Same size and seed, same map: RustMaps shows it from this page.
Population
What is the population like on Darkstar 5X Experimental?
Right now, 0 players are on Darkstar 5X Experimental, which has 50 slots. Averaging 0 players over seven days, it peaked at 1.
What is Darkstar 5X Experimental's ranking?
For player hours over the last week, Darkstar 5X Experimental is #15,807, which puts it in the top 71% of all ranked servers.
Tags and filters
What is the meaning of the tags on Darkstar 5X Experimental?
What the game's server browser gets from Darkstar 5X Experimental is this tag list: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust mode; mp50 (Max players): The server has 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams max out at 8—the default setting for Rust; v2634 (Protocol): You'll need protocol 2634 on your game to join; cs166652 (Build): Build number: 166652; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is standard; $r? (Region code): There's no region code here; ^m (Monthly): You get a wipe once a month, together with the force wipe; ^o (Oxide): Plugins run through Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Modded category: the game is altered by plugins or settings. The tags carry its players now, its queue and the time its world was made as well, and the top of this page displays them.
Where does Darkstar 5X Experimental appear in Rust Zerg Life lists?
5x Rust servers for clans and Modded Rust servers for clans and zergs: that is where you will find Darkstar 5X Experimental among the Rust Zerg Life rankings. Under these filters it shows on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks; Gather rate: 5x.
Server details
How reliable is Darkstar 5X Experimental, and is it up?
Right now, Darkstar 5X Experimental is online. It reports an uptime that puts the last restart at roughly 12 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, uptime was 86%: 144 hours up out of 168. Rust Zerg Life has been tracking it since 13 September 2026.
What is the performance like on Darkstar 5X Experimental?
Server fps held an average of 130 for the last 48 hours, with a minimum of 100. The world held as many as 70,623 entities, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use peaked at 2,207 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is caused by low fps and an increasing number of entities.
What version is Darkstar 5X Experimental using?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652 is what Darkstar 5X Experimental runs, on Windows. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam will update your game to that protocol.
What location does Darkstar 5X Experimental use?
There is no region published by Darkstar 5X Experimental. Rust Zerg Life displays the location a server claims, not where the machine actually stands. You can reach it at 172.240.229.71:28065.
Wipe cycle
What can you expect on wipe day on Darkstar 5X Experimental?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew an average of 0 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked.
How often does Darkstar 5X Experimental wipe, and on what days?
Its only wipe is the monthly force wipe for Darkstar 5X Experimental. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, when all Rust servers wipe. The world it is running now dates from 12 days 2 hours ago. The tags carry a monthly wipe schedule.
How to join
How can I connect to Darkstar 5X Experimental?
Enter client.connect 172.240.229.71:28065 in the F1 console. Another way: use Launch Rust on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
Server tags
Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,gmrust,cs166652,ts8,^o^z
Game
gmrust
mp50
ts8
v2634
cs166652
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Mods and access
^o
^z
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.