Online 202.36.95.61:28015 checked 14m ago
The lab
By the numbersMatch stats
against its 20 slotsThe story of the match
Players, performance and rank, hour by hour and day by day.
CrowdPlayers
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
FitnessServer 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.
FormRank
daily · 1 is bestTop 40% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
FixturesWipe 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.
ResultsWipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 20:45 UTC FW26d ago | 1 | – | running | 0 |
| Mon 28 Sep, 21:00 UTC29d 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.
Server details
Is The lab online, and how reliable is it?
Right now The lab is online. Going by the uptime it reports, the last restart came about 39 hours ago. 168 of 168 hours were up over the last 7 full days, 100% of the time. On 13 September 2026, Rust Player Stats saw it for the first time.
Does The lab run smoothly?
Averaging 147 server fps across the last 48 hours, it held a floor of 1. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world pushed the entity count to 82,418. 4,363 MB of memory was the high point. Lag, to a player, is these two together: low fps and a rising entity count.
Which Rust version is The lab on?
On Linux, The lab runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. To get in, your game needs the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Where is The lab located?
No region is published by The lab. What a server says about itself is what Rust Player Stats shows; no check is made of where the machine actually stands. 202.36.95.61:28015 is the address.
Tags
What do the server tags on The lab mean?
gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival as standard; mp20 (Max players): The cap is 20 slots; ts8 (Group limit): No more than 8 to a team, as the game sets by default; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game has to run protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Build number: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's standard layer; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^o (Oxide): It uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): The game changes here through plugins or settings, so it's listed under Modded are the tags The lab publishes, and the game's server browser reads them. At the top of this page the tags give you its players right now, its queue and the date its world was created.
Which Rust Player Stats lists and filters include The lab?
These Rust Player Stats lists take The lab: Modded Rust servers, live. Under the server list's filters it appears in: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
Server rules
Which map is running on The lab?
The procedural map on The lab is size 3,750, generated by the game from seed 822215108. The map repeats with that size and seed, and you can view it on RustMaps from here.
What are the rules and settings on The lab?
Nothing in the name of The lab states a gather rate. Groups top out at 8 players, the default for the game. build, gather and raid in the standard game: that is the survival game mode. You can fight and raid other players here. The server browser files it under Modded: plugins or settings change the game. Plugins in use: Oxide. VAC is on, so Valve's anti-cheat is watching.
Player counts
How full is The lab right now?
The board shows The lab at 0 players, with 20 slots in total. Seven days back gives an average of 0 players and a peak of 2. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 17:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.
Where does The lab sit in the rankings?
Player hours over seven days place The lab at #8,986, among the top 40% of ranked servers.
Wipe schedule
What is the wipe schedule on The lab?
To tell its rhythm, more of The lab's wipes need to be on record. Next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the monthly force wipe, when every Rust server wipes. 26 days 12 hours ago, its current world was made.
What does wipe day look like on The lab?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew 1 players on average. 0 hours after the wipe, the crowd peaked on the latest wipe. Until the next wipe, the crowd stayed above half that peak in 100% of its recent wipes.
How to join
How do I join The lab?
In the Rust console (F1) type client.connect 202.36.95.61:28015. Alternatively, Launch Rust on this page opens Rust through Steam and drops you straight in.
GlossaryServer tags
what each one meansPublished 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.