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Specimen recordcat. no. 13,675habitat unknownfirst seen 20 Oct 2026

[EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX

Offline 77.20.252.68:28035 checked 7d ago

Measurements

Players now
1/ 4
= 1 player
25% full
7-day average
0
peak –
Rank
#13,675
top 62%
Last wipe
7d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe
–
too few wipes 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
15k10k15k20k20 Oct21 Oct23 Oct24 Oct26 Oct27 Oct

Top 62% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Obs. 4 · the wipe cycle

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.

1
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 0 hours in.

Log · wipes seen

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Tue 20 Oct, 20:31 UTC7d ago 1 – running 0

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

Population

How does [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX rank against other Rust servers?

By player hours over the last seven days, [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX places at #13,675, within the top 62% of ranked servers.

How busy is [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX?

We have no live count for [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX right now. It was last seen 7 days 21 hours ago.

Lists and tags

What do the server tags on [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX mean?

What the game's server browser reads from [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp4 (Max players): The server has 4 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2634 (Protocol): The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect; cs167781 (Build): This server runs game build 167781; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): This server has no region code. You will see the player count, queue and world creation time at the top of this page, because the tags carry them too.

Which Rust Population lists and filters include [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX?

[EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Rust servers in Europe, Build and creative servers, Community servers, field-listed and Rust creative servers, counted live. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Region: Europe; Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

Wipe notes

What does wipe day look like on [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX?

Averaged over recent wipes, 1 players were counted at the busiest point. 0 hours after the latest wipe the crowd peaked.

What is the wipe schedule on [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX?

Its rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX'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. Counted from 7 days 21 hours ago, that is how long the current world has stood.

Map and rules

What are the rules and settings on [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX?

Nothing in [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX's name says how gather works. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. This server runs survival, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is enabled.

Server details

Which version of Rust does [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX run?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 on Windows is what [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX uses. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.

Is [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX online, and how reliable is it?

We last saw [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX 7 days 21 hours ago, and it is offline now. It was up 0% of the time over the last 7 full days, 0 out of 168 hours. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 20 October 2026.

Where is [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX located?

Nothing in the tags says where [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX is, but its name points to Europe. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. 77.20.252.68:28035 is where it lives.

Getting in

How do I join [EU] The Lab | CREATIVE | BUILD | SANDBOX?

Either enter client.connect 77.20.252.68:28035 in Rust's console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and be connected.

Key to its markings

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp4,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp4
Max players The server has 4 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams are capped at 8, the default setting.
v2634
Protocol The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect.
cs167781
Build This server runs game build 167781.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$r?
Region code This server has no region code.

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.