Online 172.240.229.71:28065 checked 7m ago
Darkstar 5X Experimental
By the numbersMatch stats
against its 50 slotsThe story of the match
Players, performance and rank, hour by hour and day by day.
CrowdPlayers
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
FitnessServer 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.
FormRank
daily · 1 is bestTop 63% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
FixturesWipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipeThursday 5 November, 19:00 UTCin 8d 5h The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 8d 5hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 36d 5hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
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.
ResultsWipes
newest first| 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.
About the server
Is Darkstar 5X Experimental online, and how reliable is it?
Right now Darkstar 5X Experimental is online. About 1 hours ago is when it restarted, judging by its reported uptime. 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, which is 168 of 168 hours up. Rust Player Stats logged it for the first time on 13 September 2026.
Does Darkstar 5X Experimental run smoothly?
123 server fps on average over 48 hours, and never under 96. Up to 72,774 entities sat in the world, buildings and deployables included. Memory use reached 2,322 MB. What players feel as lag is low fps paired with an entity count on the rise.
Which Rust version is Darkstar 5X Experimental on?
Windows carries Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 at Darkstar 5X Experimental. To get in, your game needs the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Where is Darkstar 5X Experimental located?
No region is published by Darkstar 5X Experimental. Rust Player Stats takes the server's word on where it is and does not look up the machine's real location. The address you connect to is 172.240.229.71:28065.
Lists and filters
What do the server tags on Darkstar 5X Experimental mean?
gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival as standard; mp50 (Max players): The cap is 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): No more than 8 to a team, as the game sets by default; v2635 (Protocol): Your game must be on protocol 2635 to get in; cs168909 (Build): The game build here is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): Facepunch's force wipe is the monthly wipe here; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework is Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Modded is its category: plugins or settings change how it plays are the tags Darkstar 5X Experimental publishes, and the game's server browser reads them. At the top of this page the tags give you its players right now, its queue and the date its world was created.
Which Rust Player Stats lists and filters include Darkstar 5X Experimental?
These Rust Player Stats lists take Darkstar 5X Experimental: 5x Rust servers, live and ranked and Modded Rust servers, live. Under the server list's filters it appears in: Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Gather rate: 5x.
Map and rules
Which map is running on Darkstar 5X Experimental?
Darkstar 5X Experimental runs a game-generated procedural map: size 3,500, seed 1162579596. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page, since size and seed give the same map.
What are the rules and settings on Darkstar 5X Experimental?
The name says it: 5x gather on Darkstar 5X Experimental. Groups top out at 8 players, the default for the game. It plays as survival, build, gather and raid in the standard game. PvP is on, and so is raiding. Plugins or settings change the game, so the server browser lists it as Modded. Oxide plugins are running. VAC is on, so Valve's anti-cheat is watching.
Population
What is the population on Darkstar 5X Experimental at the moment?
The board shows Darkstar 5X Experimental at 0 players, with 50 slots in total. The seven-day average sits at 0 players; the peak reached 1.
Where does Darkstar 5X Experimental sit in the rankings?
Player hours over seven days place Darkstar 5X Experimental at #13,957, among the top 63% of ranked servers.
Wipe schedule
What is the wipe schedule on Darkstar 5X Experimental?
Once a month, Darkstar 5X Experimental wipes with the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe comes, and that is its next wipe, when every Rust server wipes. 26 days 15 hours ago, its current world was made. The wipe schedule in its tags is monthly.
What does wipe day look like on Darkstar 5X Experimental?
0 players on average is what its recent wipes drew at their busiest. 0 hours after the wipe, the crowd peaked on the latest wipe.
Joining the server
How do I join Darkstar 5X Experimental?
Press F1 in Rust, bring up the console and enter client.connect 172.240.229.71:28065. The Launch Rust button here does the same, opening Rust via Steam and connecting you.
GlossaryServer tags
what each one meansPublished as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z
Game
gmrust
mp50
ts8
v2635
cs168909
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.