Online202.36.95.61:28015checked 10m ago
The lab
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 37% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
too few wipes seen yetNot enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 0 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 20:45 UTC FW12d ago | 1 | – | running | 0 |
| Mon 28 Sep, 21:00 UTC15d ago | 1 | held half | 3 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
the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipesQuick answers
from the figures on this pageRules, map and settings
What are the server rules for The lab?
A gather rate is absent from the name of The lab. The group limit is the game's default of 8 players. survival is the game mode, gather, build, raid: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser lists it under Modded, because plugins or settings alter the game. Plugins: Oxide. Anti-cheat VAC from Valve is on.
What map is used on The lab?
The lab runs a procedural map of size 3,750 with seed 822215108, generated by the game. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, because the same size and seed give the same map.
Tags, lists and filters
Where can The lab be found in Rust Player Count lists and filters?
These Rust Player Count lists include The lab: Modded Rust servers. You can find it on the server list using these filters: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
What is the meaning of the tags on The lab?
The game's server browser reads these tags from The lab: gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival experience; mp20 (Max players): The server has 20 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default team cap: 8 players; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version needs to be on protocol 2634 to connect; cs167781 (Build): Build number: 167781; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard one; $r? (Region code): A region code is not present; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) is in use; ^z (Modded): The Modded category: plugins or configuration change gameplay. You will also find its current players, its queue and its world creation time in the tags, displayed at the top of this page.
Population
How full is The lab?
Right now, 0 players are on The lab, which has 20 slots. The seven-day average is 0 players, with a peak of 3. In the past 48 hours, the peak activity occurred at 18:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.
What position does The lab hold among Rust servers?
Over the last seven days, The lab is #8,256 for player hours, placing it in the top 37% of ranked servers.
Server details
How reliable is The lab, and is it online?
Right now, The lab is up. The uptime it gives suggests it restarted about 21 hours ago. It was up 97% of the time over the last 7 full days, 163 of 168 hours. Rust Player Count recorded it for the first time on 13 September 2026.
What Rust version is used on The lab?
On Linux, The lab runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. The protocol has to match for you to join, but Steam updates it without any action from you.
What region does The lab serve?
A region is not published by The lab. Rust Player Count displays the location a server claims, not the physical location of the machine. You can reach it at 202.36.95.61:28015.
What is the performance like on The lab?
The server ran at an average of 155 fps over the last 48 hours, never falling below 4. Up to 82,834 entities were present, including buildings, deployables and other world objects. At its highest, it used 4,242 MB of memory. What players perceive as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Wipe days
What changes on The lab on wipe day?
Recent wipes saw an average peak of 1 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 100% of its recent wipes.
When does The lab wipe?
The rhythm of wipes on The lab cannot be told yet, since too few are on record. Next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, the monthly force wipe applies to all Rust servers. The world in play was created 12 days 19 hours ago.
How to join
What is the process to join The lab?
To get in, press F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 202.36.95.61:28015. You can also click Launch Rust here, which opens the game through Steam and brings you onto the server.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished as mp20,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8,^o^z
Game
gmrust
mp20
ts8
v2634
cs167781
ptrak
$r?
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.