Live coverage · Rust server
Offline Lab is not on the server list right now. The figures below are from when it was last seen, 5d ago.
The count
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Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
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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.
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Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Coming up · wipe schedule
no rhythm it keeps
Its wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.
The current map
Friday 23 October 2026, 09:32 UTC
Wipe
Thursday 22 October 2026, 23:09 UTC
Wipe
Saturday 17 October 2026, 12:48 UTC
Wipe
Thursday 8 October 2026, 03:12 UTC
Wipe
Tuesday 6 October 2026, 23:09 UTC
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.
The average peak across its recent wipes is 0 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 0 hours in.
No next wipe can be predicted for Lab, which wipes at irregular times. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the next monthly force wipe, and no Rust server is spared it. The world you are playing on was built 5 days 18 hours.
The Rust Live Stats lists that include Lab are Modded Rust servers live now. You will find it on the server list under Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.
These are the tags Lab makes public: gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival, in the Rust style; mp5 (Max players): 5 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): Team cap: 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): You need protocol 2635 on your game to get in; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's usual network layer, carries this server; $r? (Region code): Region code: none set; ^o (Oxide): It runs the plugin framework Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Modded: plugins or changed settings alter the game. The current player count, the queue and the world's creation time also sit in the tags, shown at the top of this page.
Lab is not online at the moment, having last been seen 5 days 17 hours ago. Across the past week the average was 0 players.
Player hours over seven days put Lab at #15,341, in the top 69% of all ranked servers.
The name Lab carries no gather rate. The default applies: 8 players to a group. survival is the mode, with the standard game: gather, build, raid. You can raid and fight other players. Modded is its browser category, where plugins or settings change the game. Oxide plugins are in use. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
The map on Lab is procedural, made by the game itself.
There is no region from Lab. The location shown on Rust Live Stats is the one a server gives, not a lookup of the machine's position. 188.186.27.91:28015 is its address.
Lab operates on Windows with Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
As of now, Lab is offline; the last sighting was 5 days 17 hours ago. It was online for 7 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, or 4% of the time. Rust Live Stats has tracked it since 6 October 2026.
Enter client.connect 188.186.27.91:28015 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.