The lab
Online 202.36.95.61:28015 checked 14m ago
Li2Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Li3Server 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.
Li4Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 40% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Bx1Wipe 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.
Bx2Wipes
newest first · each peak a flare-up, on one √ span to its biggest| 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.
Bx6Similar servers
the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipesLogQuick answers
from the figures on this pageWipe schedule
What does wipe day look like on The lab?
The average peak across its recent wipes is 1 players. The crowd on the latest wipe reached its peak 0 hours in. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that held in 100% of its recent wipes.
What is the wipe schedule on The lab?
Its rhythm cannot yet be told: too few of The lab's wipes are on record. Next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, the monthly force wipe resets every Rust server. The world in play now was made 26 days 6 hours ago.
Population
How busy is The lab?
The current population of The lab is 0, against 20 slots. The average across the last seven days is 0 players; the peak reached 2. Look at 17:00 UTC for the last 48 hours: that hour averaged 1 players.
How does The lab rank against other Rust servers?
Ranked #8,984 on seven-day player hours, The lab is in the top 40% of all ranked servers.
Rules and settings
Which map does The lab run?
The map on The lab is procedural, size 3,750 with seed 822215108, generated by the game. You can look at the map on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed give the same map.
What are the rules and settings on The lab?
No gather rate appears in the name The lab. Groups can contain up to 8 players, the default in the game. The server runs survival, standard play: gathering, building and raiding. Combat between players and raiding are both possible. Plugins or settings change the game, and it is listed under Modded in the server browser. Oxide plugins run on this server. VAC is on, which is Valve's anti-cheat.
Server details
Which version of Rust does The lab run?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what The lab runs. Steam updates your game for you, and the protocol has to match for you to join.
Is The lab online, and how reliable is it?
Online now: The lab. About 34 hours ago is when it last restarted, by its own uptime figure. It was up 168 of 168 hours across the last 7 full days, or 100% of the time. Rust Heatmap has had it on record since 13 September 2026.
Where is The lab located?
A region is not published for The lab. What Rust Heatmap shows is where a server says it is. Where the machine stands is not looked up. You can reach it at 202.36.95.61:28015.
Does The lab run smoothly?
It averaged 138 server fps over the last 48 hours, with a low of 1. Entities peaked at 82,418, counting buildings, deployables and all the rest of the world. The highest memory use was 4,594 MB. Players feel lag when fps falls and the entity count climbs.
Tags
Which Rust Heatmap lists and filters include The lab?
The Rust Heatmap lists that The lab fits are: Modded Rust servers, by live population. You will find it under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
What do the server tags on The lab mean?
These are the tags The lab publishes for the game's server browser to read: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust form; mp20 (Max players): Slot count: 20; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): Your game must match protocol 2635 to get in; cs168909 (Build): Build 168909; ptrak (Networking): Standard game networking here, which is RakNet; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework in use is Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Listed as Modded, since settings or plugins change the game. Also in the tags, shown at the top of this page: players now, the queue and the time the world was made.
How to join
How do I join The lab?
Enter client.connect 202.36.95.61:28015 in the console, opened with F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here, which opens the game through Steam and connects you.