Online 77.20.252.68:28015 checked 9m ago
[EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX
By the numbersMatch stats
against its 4 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. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
FormRank
daily · 1 is bestTop 27% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tue 27 Oct, 23:42 UTC1d ago | – | – | running | 1 |
| Thu 22 Oct, 15:29 UTC6d ago | 1 | halved by day 1 | 5.3 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.
Operator and location
Is [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX online, and how reliable is it?
The lights are on at [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX: online as you read this. 138 of 168 hours were up over the last 7 full days, 82% of the time. Rust Player Stats logged it for the first time on 20 October 2026.
Which Rust version is [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows: that is the setup at [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX. To get in, your game needs the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Where is [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX located?
The name of [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX points to Europe, though it publishes no region tag. What a server says about itself is what Rust Player Stats shows; no check is made of where the machine actually stands. 77.20.252.68:28015 is the address.
Lists and filters
What do the server tags on [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX mean?
gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp4 (Max players): Slot count: 4; ts8 (Group limit): The default 8 per team applies here; v2635 (Protocol): Your game must be on protocol 2635 to get in; cs168909 (Build): The game build here is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard one; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank are the tags [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX publishes, and the game's server browser reads them. The tags carry more besides: present players, queue length and when the world was made, all displayed at the top of this page.
Which Rust Player Stats lists and filters include [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX?
These Rust Player Stats lists take [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX: EU Rust servers, live, Build and creative servers, live, Community servers, ranked live and Rust creative servers, live. Under the server list's filters it appears in: Region: Europe; Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 3 days.
Map and rules
Which map is running on [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX?
The game generates the procedural map on [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX.
What are the rules and settings on [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX?
No gather rate appears in the name of [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX. Up to 8 players to a group, which is the default. It plays as survival, build, gather and raid in the standard game. PvP is on, and so is raiding. You will find it listed as Community. Anti-cheat is on: VAC.
Player counts
What is the population on [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX at the moment?
The board shows [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX at 1 players, with 4 slots in total. Averaged across seven days: 0 players. The high point: 2. The busiest stretch of the last 48 hours came at 19:00 UTC, averaging 2 players.
Where does [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX sit in the rankings?
The last seven days put [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX at #5,934 on player hours: top 27% of all ranked servers.
Wipe timing
What is the wipe schedule on [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX?
The rhythm of [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX's wipes cannot be told yet, because not enough are on record. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe lands, and every Rust server wipes. 27 hours ago is when its current world was made.
What does wipe day look like on [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX?
1 players on average is what its recent wipes drew at their busiest. 0 hours after the wipe, the crowd peaked on the latest wipe. Until the next wipe, the crowd stayed above half that peak in 0% of its recent wipes. It fell below half by day 1 when it didn't hold.
Joining the server
How do I join [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX?
Press F1 in Rust, bring up the console and enter client.connect 77.20.252.68:28015. The Launch Rust button here does the same, opening Rust via Steam and connecting you.
GlossaryServer tags
what each one meansPublished as mp4,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp4
ts8
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
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.