The lab
Online 202.36.95.61:28015 checked 13m ago
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
Top 44% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
- usual gap
- 3 daysbetween real wipes
- wipe-day peak
- 1players, last three wipes
- crowd held
- 100%of its cycles kept half the crowd
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
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
1 OCT 2026Thu 1 Oct, 20:45 UTC FW27d ago |
1 | – | running | 0 |
28 SEP 2026Mon 28 Sep, 21:00 UTC30d 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 wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Rules and settings
On The lab, which rules and settings apply?
The name of The lab does not state a gather rate. The default group limit of 8 players applies. The server runs survival, building, gathering and raiding in the standard game. Combat and raiding between players are possible. The server browser lists it under Modded; plugins or settings alter the game. Plugins in use: Oxide. VAC is on: Valve's anti-cheat is enabled.
What is the map on The lab?
Generated by the game, the procedural map of The lab has size 3,750 and seed 822215108. From this page you can view the map on RustMaps; the same size and seed give the same map.
Tags and filters
Which lists and filters on Rust Server Index is The lab filed under?
The Rust Server Index lists that include The lab are Modded Rust servers, filed by play style. It appears under the following filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
What is meant by the tags on The lab?
Filed under these tags, as published by The lab and read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival, as standard; mp20 (Max players): 20 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): The team limit is 8, as in the standard game; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; older or newer clients cannot join; cs168909 (Build): The game build here is 168909; ptrak (Networking): Networking runs on RakNet, the game's default layer; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^o (Oxide): This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): This one is Modded, since plugins or settings change how it plays. The top of this page shows three items from the tags: players at present, queue and world creation time.
Wipe dates
How does a wipe day run on The lab?
The average peak across its recent wipes is 1 players. The latest wipe peaked 0 hours in. Half that peak was held until the next wipe in 100% of its recent wipes.
When does The lab wipe?
Its rhythm is not yet clear, since the record holds too few of The lab's wipes. The monthly force wipe reaches every Rust server, and the next one falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Its present world dates from 27 days 1 hours.
Player counts
How is The lab ranked compared with the rest?
Filed under rankings: #9,725 for The lab on seven-day player hours, top 44% overall.
How many players are on The lab at the moment?
The lab is currently showing 0 players on 20 slots. Averaged across seven days: 0 players, peaking at 2. Over the last 48 hours, 17:00 UTC drew the highest average: 1 players.
Server facts
What Rust version is The lab on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909, on Linux, is what The lab runs. The protocol must match before you can join, and Steam takes care of updating it.
Is The lab reachable, and does it stay up?
Right now The lab is up and running. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 2 days 4 hours ago. It was up 168 of 168 hours across the last 7 full days, or 100% of the time. The earliest sighting at Rust Server Index is 13 September 2026.
Is the performance on The lab good?
The last 48 hours give an average of 176 server fps and a floor of 89. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world came to as many as 82,071 entities. The peak memory figure stood at 4,089 MB. Lag, to players, is low fps and an entity count that climbs.
Which region is The lab in?
There is no region on record for The lab; it publishes none. Rust Server Index takes the server's word for its location and does not look up the machine's position. You will reach it at 202.36.95.61:28015.
How to join
What is the way onto The lab?
If you would rather use the console, press F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 202.36.95.61:28015. You can also choose Launch Rust and join here; that opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
Server tags
What each one means.
Published as mp20,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z
Game
gmrust
mp20
ts8
v2635
cs168909
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.