Live coverage · Rust server
Offline lux testing grounds is not on the server list right now. The figures below are from when it was last seen, 27d 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 65% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Coming up · wipe schedule
too few wipes seen yet
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 0 hours in.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 21:24 UTC FW
Wipe
Thursday 24 September 2026, 13:55 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.
Recent wipes on this server averaged a peak of 1 players at their busiest. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 0 hours in.
lux testing grounds's wipe history is too thin on record to show a rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe arrives, and every Rust server wipes with it. 27 days 16 hours have passed since this world was generated.
The Rust Live Stats lists that include lux testing grounds are Live Rust community servers. You will find it on the server list under Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival, in the Rust style; mp3 (Max players): Slots: 3; ts8 (Group limit): Team cap: 8, which is the game default; v2634 (Protocol): Join only if your game is on protocol 2634; cs166494 (Build): Build: 166494; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer — the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): The server sets no region code: that is the tag list lux testing grounds publishes for the game's server browser. The current player count, the queue and the world's creation time also sit in the tags, shown at the top of this page.
Last seen 27 days 16 hours ago, lux testing grounds is offline right now.
Player hours over seven days put lux testing grounds at #15,047, in the top 65% of all ranked servers.
The name lux testing grounds carries no gather rate. Eight players per group, which is the game's default. survival is the mode, with the standard game: gather, build, raid. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. You find it under Community in the server browser. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
lux testing grounds uses a procedural map, which the game generates.
No region is published by lux testing grounds. The location shown on Rust Live Stats is the one a server gives, not a lookup of the machine's position. 73.44.106.172:28015 is its address.
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494 on Windows is what lux testing grounds runs. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.
As of now, lux testing grounds is offline; the last sighting was 27 days 16 hours ago. 0 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 0% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Live Stats was on 17 September 2026.
Use Launch Rust and join on this page to open Rust through Steam and connect, or start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 73.44.106.172:28015.