Players
The Old Man Server (5X Weekly)
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 19 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 10% of all ranked servers, top 20% in NA, and #134 of the quad servers (top 16%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 29 October, 19:43 UTC, in 10h. Its weekly schedule tag · low confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 7, 3 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 22 Oct, 19:43 UTC6d ago | 7 | – | running | 1 |
| Tue 20 Oct, 01:38 UTC9d ago | 3 | held half | 2.8 days | 0 |
| Sun 18 Oct, 14:34 UTC10d ago | 2 | – | 1.5 days | 0 |
| Sat 19 Sep, 16:48 UTC39d ago | 1 | halved by day 4 | 28.9 days | 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
Host and version
Is The Old Man Server (5X Weekly) online, and how reliable is it?
The Old Man Server (5X Weekly) is up as you read this. About 3 days 18 hours ago is when it last restarted, to go by the uptime it reports. It stayed up 99% of the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours. Its earliest entry with Rust Charts dates from 18 September 2026.
Where is The Old Man Server (5X Weekly) located?
The Old Man Server (5X Weekly) gives its location as North America, using the NA tag. Rust Charts doesn't look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. 66.51.99.23:28015 is its address.
Which version of Rust does The Old Man Server (5X Weekly) run?
The build behind The Old Man Server (5X Weekly) is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909, hosted on Linux. Steam updates your game for you; all you need is the same protocol to join.
Does The Old Man Server (5X Weekly) run smoothly?
Never under 5, and 26 server fps on average, is how the last 48 hours went. Buildings, deployables and all the rest of the world came to as many as 101,231 entities. Memory use peaked at 4,255 MB. Lag, as players experience it, is low fps plus entities piling up.
Player counts
How busy is The Old Man Server (5X Weekly)?
On The Old Man Server (5X Weekly), 0 players are in and 50 slots are the ceiling. Over the last week it averaged 2 players; the high point was 7. 19:00 UTC was the peak of the last 48 hours, with 6 players on average.
How does The Old Man Server (5X Weekly) rank against other Rust servers?
The last seven days of player hours put The Old Man Server (5X Weekly) at #2,332, top 10% of ranked servers, and #373 in North America. In the quad group, this one holds rank #134.
Wipe schedule
What does wipe day look like on The Old Man Server (5X Weekly)?
At their busiest, its recent wipes averaged 4 players. 3 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 50% of its recent wipes. By day 4 it had fallen below half in the wipes that did not hold.
What is the wipe schedule on The Old Man Server (5X Weekly)?
The tag sets the prediction for The Old Man Server (5X Weekly), as too few of its wipes are on record to confirm the schedule. The wipe after this one is due Thursday 29 October at 19:43 UTC. The world in play was made 6 days 13 hours. A weekly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
How it is set up
What are the rules and settings on The Old Man Server (5X Weekly)?
A gather rate of 5x is what The Old Man Server (5X Weekly) advertises in its name. quad gives a group limit of 4 players. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. Community is where it appears in the server browser; it is a community server. Oxide plugins are running on it. VAC is on: that is Valve's anti-cheat.
Which map does The Old Man Server (5X Weekly) run?
The map on The Old Man Server (5X Weekly) is procedural, size 4,000, seed 548428453, made by the game. You can view it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed produce the same map.
Lists and filters
Which Rust Charts lists and filters include The Old Man Server (5X Weekly)?
These Rust Charts lists include The Old Man Server (5X Weekly): Best 5x Rust servers, Rust community servers, unmodded and Region: North America. It appears under these filters on the server list: Region: North America; Type: Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Weekly ^w and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Weekly; Last wipe: In the last week; Gather rate: 5x.
What do the server tags on The Old Man Server (5X Weekly) mean?
gmrust (Game mode): Survival, in the standard Rust form; mp50 (Max players): 50 slots are available; ts4 (Group limit): The team cap is 4; v2635 (Protocol): The server speaks protocol 2635, so your game needs the same version; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, the game's default; $r? (Region code): The region code is unset; ^w (Weekly): Wipes happen every week; ^o (Oxide): This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; NA (North America): The server browser files this one under North America — that's the set of tags The Old Man Server (5X Weekly) publishes for the server browser. Player numbers now, queue size and world creation time sit in the tags as well, shown at the top of this page.
Getting in
How do I join The Old Man Server (5X Weekly)?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and type client.connect 66.51.99.23:28015. Joining on this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you.
