The Old Man Server (5X Weekly)
Online NA 66.51.99.23:28015 checked 3h ago
Measurements
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 19 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 11% of all ranked servers, top 21% in NA, and #142 of the quad servers (top 17%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 29 October, 19:43 UTC, in 23h. 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 UTC8d 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.
Quick answers
Player counts
How does The Old Man Server (5X Weekly) rank against other Rust servers?
The Old Man Server (5X Weekly) ranks #2,468 on seven-day player hours, #395 in North America, and sits in the top 11% of all ranked servers. It places #142 among servers of the quad kind.
How busy is The Old Man Server (5X Weekly)?
The Old Man Server (5X Weekly) holds 6 players at the moment, out of 50 slots. We counted an average of 2 players in the past week, with 7 at the busiest. The busiest hour in the last 48 was 17:00 UTC, when an average of 6 players were on.
Lists and tags
What do the server tags on The Old Man Server (5X Weekly) mean?
These are the tags The Old Man Server (5X Weekly) publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp50 (Max players): The server has 50 slots; ts4 (Group limit): You may team with up to 4 players; v2635 (Protocol): Your game needs the same version, protocol 2635, to join; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^w (Weekly): A weekly wipe takes place; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here; NA (North America): Its place in the server browser is under North America. Player count now, queue length and the making of the world all sit in the tags as well, and the top of this page shows them.
Which Rust Population lists and filters include The Old Man Server (5X Weekly)?
The Old Man Server (5X Weekly) appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: 5x Rust server population, Community servers, field-listed and North American Rust servers. Look for it 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.
Wipe notes
What does wipe day look like on The Old Man Server (5X Weekly)?
Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 4 players. Peak came 3 hours into the latest wipe. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 50% of its recent wipes. In those that did not hold, the fall below half came by day 4.
What is the wipe schedule on The Old Man Server (5X Weekly)?
The prediction follows its tag, since too few of The Old Man Server (5X Weekly)'s wipes are on record to confirm the schedule. A wipe is due on Thursday 29 October at 19:43 UTC, the next one. Counted from 6 days ago, that is how long the current world has stood. A weekly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
Map and rules
Which map does The Old Man Server (5X Weekly) run?
The map on The Old Man Server (5X Weekly) is procedural, made by the game at size 4,000 from seed 548428453. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map.
What are the rules and settings on The Old Man Server (5X Weekly)?
The name says it: gathering is multiplied 5x on The Old Man Server (5X Weekly). The cap on groups is 4 players (quad). survival is what it runs, raid, build and gather: the standard game. You can raid and fight other players here. You will find it under Community: it is a community server. Oxide plugins are in use here. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.
Server details
Which version of Rust does The Old Man Server (5X Weekly) run?
The setup is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux for The Old Man Server (5X Weekly). The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.
Does The Old Man Server (5X Weekly) run smoothly?
The last 48 hours saw an average of 25 server fps, with 5 as the lowest. The entity count reached 100,610: buildings, deployables and all other objects. The highest memory usage was 3,846 MB. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.
Is The Old Man Server (5X Weekly) online, and how reliable is it?
You will find The Old Man Server (5X Weekly) online now. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 3 days 3 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours were online, or 100%. It was first seen by Rust Population on 18 September 2026.
Where is The Old Man Server (5X Weekly) located?
By its NA tag, The Old Man Server (5X Weekly) says it is in North America. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. 66.51.99.23:28015 is where it lives.
How to join
How do I join The Old Man Server (5X Weekly)?
Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 66.51.99.23:28015. Joining from this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you.