The server's own banner, as it publishes it
Exhibit no. 5,563Acc. 2026.5563
[US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |
Rust server, NA · in the archive since 19 October 2026
Online NA 98.2.204.240:28015 checked 12m ago
The timeline
Wipes
Every wipe on record as a dated marker, the force wipes among them, and the wipes expected next. Newest first in the record below.
The record of each wipe
No wipe seen yet.
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 rhythm
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 20h. The force wipe
The record
Population, performance and rank
Kept in folders: players every five minutes, every hour and every day; the server answering for itself; its rank among every server ranked.
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server 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 19 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 25% of all ranked servers, top 50% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Related exhibits
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Visitors' questions about this exhibit
Quick answers
Answered from the figures on this page.
Tags, lists
What do the server tags on [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | mean?
You can see the tags [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | publishes, read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp20 (Max players): 20 slots are set on this server; ts8 (Group limit): The game default caps teams at 8; v2635 (Protocol): Your game must run protocol 2635 to join; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): A monthly wipe applies here, as does the force wipe from Facepunch; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's release, unchanged: rates, kits and rules stand as shipped; ^c (Creative): Build what you like in a sandbox, with no gathering; ^z (Modded): Under Modded: the game is changed by plugins or settings; ^y (Carbon): Plugins run through Carbon here; NA (North America): The server browser lists it under North America. The tags also carry the current player count, the queue and the world's creation time, shown at the top of this page.
Which Rust Server History lists and filters include [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |?
These Rust Server History lists include [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |: 5x Rust servers, Modded Rust servers: the record, Rust build servers: the record, Creative Rust servers: the record and North America Rust servers. It appears under these filters on the server list: 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.
Server entry
Does [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | run smoothly?
Across the last 48 hours it averaged 151 server fps; the low was 56. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world came to as many as 90,246 entities. Memory use peaked at 3,524 MB. What players feel as lag comes from low fps and a climbing entity count.
Which version of Rust does [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | run?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the build [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | runs, on Windows. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam keeps it updated for you.
Is [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | online, and how reliable is it?
At this moment [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | is online. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 4 hours ago. 96 of 168 hours, or 57% of the time, over the last 7 full days. The first sighting by Rust Server History was on 19 October 2026.
Where is [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | located?
In North America, [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | lists itself with its NA tag. Rust Server History does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You will find it at 98.2.204.240:28015.
Wipe record
What is the wipe schedule on [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |?
Drawn from the force wipe, [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |'s next wipe is an estimate. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. The world it runs now dates from 24 days 23 hours ago. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
Player counts
How does [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | rank against other Rust servers?
[US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | takes #929 in North America on seven-day player hours, with #5,563 overall and a place in the top 25% of all ranked servers.
How busy is [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |?
1 players are on [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | at present, from 20 slots. A seven-day average of 0 players is recorded, with a peak of 2. An average of 1 players at 03:00 UTC made that the busiest hour of the last 48.
Rules and settings
What are the rules and settings on [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |?
You can read a 5x gather rate in the name of [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |. The limit of 8 players per group is the game's default. build & creative is the game mode, building in a sandbox, no gathering needed. Under Modded in the server browser, the game is changed by plugins or settings. Plugins in use: Carbon. Vanilla is its own description: facepunch's release, unchanged: rates, kits and rules stand as shipped. VAC from Valve is switched on.
Which map does [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | run?
Generated by the game at size 4,500 with seed 1337, the map on [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | is procedural. From this page you can view the map on RustMaps: the same size and seed give the same map. Under map name, the entry reads: Custom Map.
How to join
How do I join [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console, then enter client.connect 98.2.204.240:28015 to connect. Launch Rust from this page instead and you join through Steam with the connect already made.
The label explained
Server tags
What each tag this server publishes means.
Published as mp20,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^z,^y,^m,^v,^c,NA,gmrust,cs168909,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp20
ts8
v2635
cs168909
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.