OnlineNA74.79.73.121:28015checked 10m ago
[US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |
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. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 56% of all ranked servers, top 76% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 18d 20h. The force wipe
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No wipe seen yet. | ||||
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 [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |?
[US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | sets its gather rate to 5x, as its name states. Groups are capped at 8 players, the default in the game. The server runs build & creative, no gathering, just sandbox building. The server browser lists it as Modded, with plugins or settings that alter the game. Plugins: Carbon. Vanilla is its own description: unmodified Rust: no changed rates, no kits, no extra rules. Anti-cheat VAC from Valve is on.
What map is used on [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |?
The game generates a procedural map of size 4,500 with seed 1337 for [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, because the same size and seed give the same map. Its map is called: Custom Map.
Tags, lists and filters
Where can [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | be found in Rust Player Count lists and filters?
These Rust Player Count lists include [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |: Rust build and creative servers, 5x Rust servers, Modded Rust servers, Rust creative servers and North American Rust servers. You can find it on the server list using these filters: Region: North America; Type: Vanilla and Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, Creative ^c, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Gather rate: 5x.
How should you interpret the tags on [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |?
These are the tags [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | publishes for the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as standard in Rust; mp20 (Max players): 20 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): Teams max out at 8, the standard game limit; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs167781 (Build): It runs on game build 167781; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the game's default networking; $r? (Region code): A region code is not present; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, timed with Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Unmodified Rust: no changed rates, no kits, no extra rules; ^c (Creative): Sandbox mode: build freely, without gathering resources; ^z (Modded): The Modded category: plugins or configuration change gameplay; ^y (Carbon): The Carbon plugin framework is running; NA (North America): It appears under North America when browsing servers. The tags also include its current players, its queue and when its world was made, shown at the top of this page.
Population
What is the player count on [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |?
With 20 slots, [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | has 1 players at the moment. The seven-day average is 0 players, with a peak of 1. The highest average in the last 48 hours was 1 players at 08:00 UTC.
Where does [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | sit in the rankings?
In the last seven days, [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | is #12,328 for player hours, #1,413 in North America, and within the top 56% of ranked servers.
About the server
How reliable is [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |, and is it online?
You can find [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | online at the moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 17 hours ago. Its first appearance in Rust Player Count was on 17 October 2026.
What is the Rust version for [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |?
On Windows, [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam updates it for you.
Where can you find [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |?
Its NA tag shows [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | lists itself in North America. Where a server says it is, that is what Rust Player Count shows; it does not check the machine's actual location. It is located at 74.79.73.121:28015.
Is [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | lag-free?
In the last 48 hours, it averaged 106 server fps, with a low of 94. The maximum number of entities it carried was 85,527, which includes buildings, deployables and everything else. Peak memory use was 3,384 MB. What players perceive as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Wipe schedule
How often does [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | wipe?
The next wipe for [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | is an estimate based on the force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. It has been running its current world for 14 days 22 hours. Its tags declare wipes on a monthly schedule.
Connect to the server
What steps are needed to join [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |?
Joining is done by opening the console (F1) and running client.connect 74.79.73.121:28015. Another way is the Launch Rust option on this page, which uses Steam to start Rust and put you in.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished as mp20,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^z,^y,^m,^v,^c,NA,gmrust,cs167781,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp20
ts8
v2634
cs167781
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Difficulty
^v
Gameplay
^c
Mods and access
^z
^y
Region
NA
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.