[US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |
Offline NA 74.79.99.27:28015 checked 11d ago
Vital stats
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 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 65% of all ranked servers, top 80% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 23h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
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.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 2 Oct, 23:12 UTC25d ago | 1 | – | running | 1 |
| Thu 1 Oct, 20:00 UTC FW26d ago | 1 | – | 1.1 days | 1 |
| Tue 29 Sep, 22:27 UTC28d ago | 1 | – | 1.9 days | 0 |
| Sun 27 Sep, 20:43 UTC30d ago | 1 | halved by day 1 | 2.1 days | 0 |
| Sat 26 Sep, 22:43 UTC31d ago | 1 | – | 0.9 days | 0 |
| Wed 23 Sep, 03:04 UTC35d ago | 1 | held half | 3.8 days | 1 |
| Sun 20 Sep, 03:45 UTC38d ago | 2 | held half | 3 days | 1 |
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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Server tags
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |?
These Rust Pop Watch lists include [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |: The 5x scene, live, Modded Rust servers, live, Build and creative servers, live, Rust creative servers, watched and North America: who's hot right now. These are the filters that list it 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.
What do the server tags on [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | mean?
The game's server browser picks up these tags from [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp20 (Max players): It has 20 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2634 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2634, so your client has to match it to join; cs167781 (Build): It's on game build 167781; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules; ^c (Creative): Build what you like in this sandbox, with no gathering; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it's listed under Modded; ^y (Carbon): This server uses Carbon for plugins; NA (North America): Its place in the server browser is under North America. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.
Population
How does [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | rank against other Rust servers?
For the last seven days of player hours, [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | sits at #14,183, inside the top 65% of ranked servers and at #1,480 in North America.
How many players are on [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | right now?
[US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | went quiet 11 days 14 hours ago and is offline at the moment.
About the server
Is [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | online, and how reliable is it?
[US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | shows as offline, last spotted 11 days 14 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 0%, with 0 out of 168 hours online. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 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. 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 74.79.99.27:28015.
Which Rust version is [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | on?
On Windows, [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.
Wipe days
What happens on [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | when wipe day comes around?
The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 1 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak. Its recent wipes kept the crowd above half the peak until the next one 50% of the time. If it did not hold, half the peak was gone by day 1.
What is the wipe schedule on [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |?
[US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | wipes with the force wipe and at no other time, once a month. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 25 days 20 hours is when the present world was made. The tags hold a monthly wipe schedule.
Map and rules
Which map does [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | run?
Generated by the game with seed 1337, the map on [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | is procedural and 4,500 in size. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map. Custom Map is how the map name reads.
What are the rules and settings on [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |?
The name says it: [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | gathers at 5x. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. no gathering, just sandbox building: that is the build & creative mode. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Carbon plugins are running on it. The server's own word for it is vanilla: facepunch's game, unchanged: no modified rates, kits or rules. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.
Getting in
How do I join [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |?
The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 74.79.99.27:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.