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Specimen recordcat. no. 11,968habitat unknownfirst seen 23 Oct 2026

Footsteps Lab

Offline 5.255.107.33:28015 checked 5d ago

moddedoxide

Measurements

Players now
1/ 4
= 1 player
25% full
7-day average
1
peak 1
Rank
#11,968
top 54%
Last wipe
5d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
no wipe seen yet
Obs. 1 · sightings

Players

No hourly history yet.

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Obs. 2 · condition

Server performance

This server has not answered a direct query in the last 48 hours.

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.

Obs. 3 · standing

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k23 Oct24 Oct25 Oct26 Oct27 Oct28 Oct

Top 54% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

Log · wipes seen

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.

Field questions

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Player counts

How does Footsteps Lab rank against other Rust servers?

The last seven days of player hours place Footsteps Lab at #11,968, within the top 54% of all ranked servers.

How busy is Footsteps Lab?

At this count Footsteps Lab is offline, with its last sighting 5 days 9 hours ago. Averaged over seven days, it drew 1 players and reached a peak of 1.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on Footsteps Lab mean?

These are the tags Footsteps Lab publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp4 (Max players): You can join up to 4 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) runs on this server; ^z (Modded): This server appears under Modded because plugins or settings alter the game. Player count now, queue length and the making of the world all sit in the tags as well, and the top of this page shows them.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include Footsteps Lab?

Footsteps Lab appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Modded Rust servers, counted. Look for it under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.

Wipe notes

What is the wipe schedule on Footsteps Lab?

Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of Footsteps Lab's wipes are on record. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe comes round, and every Rust server wipes with it. The world it runs now dates from 5 days 10 hours ago.

Map and rules

Which map does Footsteps Lab run?

The map on Footsteps Lab is procedural, made by the game.

What are the rules and settings on Footsteps Lab?

The name tells you nothing about gather rates: Footsteps Lab states none. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. You get survival here, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. Modded is its browser category: plugins or settings change the game. Oxide plugins are in use here. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.

Server details

Which version of Rust does Footsteps Lab run?

On Windows, Footsteps Lab runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Is Footsteps Lab online, and how reliable is it?

Offline at the moment, Footsteps Lab was last seen 5 days 9 hours ago. Over the last 4 full days, 0 of 96 hours were online, or 0%. On 23 October 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.

Where is Footsteps Lab located?

Nothing published by Footsteps Lab states a region. What Rust Population shows is where a server says it is; where the machine actually stands is not looked up. 5.255.107.33:28015 is where it lives.

Getting in

How do I join Footsteps Lab?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 5.255.107.33:28015. Joining from this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp4,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp4
Max players You can join up to 4 slots.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team is the default limit.
v2635
Protocol The protocol is 2635; a different version will not connect.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking The standard network layer, RakNet, is in use.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) runs on this server.
^z
Modded This server appears under Modded because plugins or settings alter the game.

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.