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CryptLab

Online 165.73.228.166:28015 checked 11m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 2 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,341top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe11d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe7d 12hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123407:0016:0001:0010:0020:0005:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

025507510007:0016:0001:0010:0020:0005:00

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 26 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.

Climbing the charts

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k26 Oct27 Oct28 Oct29 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 12h. The force wipe

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
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.

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The interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include CryptLab?

You'll find CryptLab on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Community servers, by the numbers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Monthly ^m; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

What do the server tags on CryptLab mean?

For the server browser, CryptLab lists these tags: gmvanilla (Game mode): Survival in vanilla form; mp2 (Max players): Slots: 2; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2634 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2634; cs167781 (Build): It's on game build 167781; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

Population

How does CryptLab rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over the last week rank CryptLab at #15,341, within the top 69% of ranked servers.

How many players are on CryptLab right now?

The current tally at CryptLab: 0 players across 2 slots. Across the past week it drew an average of 0 players.

Server facts

Is CryptLab online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, CryptLab is up and running. About 11 days 16 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. Out of 48 hours in the last 2 full days, it was online for 47, a 98% uptime. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 26 October 2026.

Does CryptLab run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 74, and it never went below 34. Entities reached a maximum of 70,857: buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 3,459 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is CryptLab located?

No region is published by CryptLab. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. You'll find it at 165.73.228.166:28015.

Which Rust version is CryptLab on?

On Windows, CryptLab runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.

The wipe schedule

What is the wipe schedule on CryptLab?

From the force wipe comes the estimate for CryptLab's next wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. The world it is running now dates from 11 days 18 hours. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.

The rules

Which map does CryptLab run?

Generated by the game with seed 410879794, the map on CryptLab is procedural and 3,500 in size. Matching size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.

What are the rules and settings on CryptLab?

No gather rate appears in the name of CryptLab. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. survival is the game mode, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. It appears under Community in the browser. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

Join up

How do I join CryptLab?

Enter client.connect 165.73.228.166:28015 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp2,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,gmvanilla,cs167781,ts8

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode Survival in vanilla form.
mp2
Max players Slots: 2.
ts8
Group limit The default team size of 8 applies here.
v2634
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2634.
cs167781
Build It's on game build 167781.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe.

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.