Offline NA 74.79.99.27:28015 checked 11d ago
[US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |
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 65% of all ranked servers, top 80% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
FixturesWipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipeThursday 5 November, 19:00 UTCin 8d 13h The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 8d 13hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 36d 13hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 2 Oct, 23:12 UTC25d ago | 1 | – | running | 1 |
| Thu 1 Oct, 20:00 UTC FW26d ago | 1 | – | 1.1 days | 1 |
| Tue 29 Sep, 22:27 UTC28d ago | 1 | – | 1.9 days | 0 |
| Sun 27 Sep, 20:43 UTC30d ago | 1 | halved by day 1 | 2.1 days | 0 |
| Sat 26 Sep, 22:43 UTC31d ago | 1 | – | 0.9 days | 0 |
| Wed 23 Sep, 03:04 UTC35d ago | 1 | held half | 3.8 days | 1 |
| Sun 20 Sep, 03:45 UTC38d ago | 2 | held half | 3 days | 1 |
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.
Operator and location
Is [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | online, and how reliable is it?
Offline right now, with a last sighting 11 days ago: [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |. The last 7 full days put it at 0 of 168 hours up, 0% uptime. On 13 September 2026, Rust Player Stats saw it for the first time.
Which Rust version is [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | on?
Windows carries Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 at [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |. Same protocol or no entry: your game must match, and Steam keeps it updated for you.
Where is [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | located?
Its NA tag places [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | in North America. Where the machine physically stands is not looked up by Rust Player Stats; it shows only what the server states. You will find it at 74.79.99.27:28015.
Server tags
What do the server tags on [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | mean?
Tags published by [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | and picked up by the in-game browser: gmrust (Game mode): The standard Rust survival rules apply here; mp20 (Max players): The cap is 20 slots; ts8 (Group limit): No more than 8 to a team, as the game sets by default; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game has to run protocol 2634; cs167781 (Build): The game build here is 167781; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard one; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, timed to Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): The game as shipped by Facepunch, with rates, kits and rules untouched; ^c (Creative): No gathering needed: build what you like in the sandbox; ^z (Modded): Modded is its category: plugins or settings change how it plays; ^y (Carbon): Carbon provides the plugin framework here; NA (North America): The server browser files it under North America. You will also find its current players, its queue and the age of its world in the tags, shown at the top of this page.
Which Rust Player Stats lists and filters include [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |?
The Rust Player Stats lists that include [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | are: 5x Rust servers, live and ranked, Modded Rust servers, live, Build and creative servers, live, Rust creative servers, live and North America Rust servers. These filters on the server list bring it up: 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.
Rules and settings
Which map is running on [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |?
[US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | runs a game-generated procedural map: size 4,500, seed 1337. Same size, same seed, same map, so RustMaps shows it from this page. Read the map name off the board: Custom Map.
What are the rules and settings on [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |?
5x gather is what [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | runs, matching its name. Groups top out at 8 players, the default for the game. building in a sandbox, no gathering: that is the build & creative game mode. Plugins or settings change the game, so the server browser lists it as Modded. Plugins in use: Carbon. The word it uses is vanilla: the game as shipped by Facepunch, with rates, kits and rules untouched. Anti-cheat is on: VAC.
Population
How full is [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | right now?
Last seen 11 days ago, [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | is offline right now.
Where does [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | sit in the rankings?
Over the last seven days [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | has logged enough player hours for #14,183, which puts it in the top 65% of ranked servers and at #1,480 in North America.
Wipe days
What is the wipe schedule on [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |?
With the force wipe, [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | wipes once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe comes, and that is its next wipe, when every Rust server wipes. 25 days 6 hours ago is when its current world was made. Its tags carry a monthly wipe schedule.
What does wipe day look like on [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |?
1 players on average is what its recent wipes drew at their busiest. The crowd reached its peak 0 hours after the latest wipe. Until the next wipe, the crowd stayed above half that peak in 50% of its recent wipes. By day 1, it had fallen below half when it didn't hold.
How to join
How do I join [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |?
Console route: F1 in Rust, then client.connect 74.79.99.27:28015. Or use Launch Rust here, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
GlossaryServer 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.