Online NA 98.2.204.240:28015 checked 9m ago
[US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |
Connect
srv = rust.server("98.2.204.240:28017")
print(srv.connect_command)Right now
srv.summary()display(Image(srv.banner))
Players
srv.players.plot(range="48h")Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
srv.performance.plot(measure="fps", range="48h")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 · daily · 1 is best
srv.rank.plot(invert=True) # 1 is bestTop 25% of all ranked servers, top 49% in NA. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
srv.wipe_schedule()Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 22h. # The force wipe
Wipes · newest first
srv.wipes.head(20)| wiped | peak | crowd | lasted | players_before | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Empty DataFrame · 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.
display(srv.map, srv.info())Map
4500 · seed 1337![Map of [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |](https://files.facepunch.com/rust/map-images/502db32bb3bcac3ae2cbcd53dc356df13a2b344d46f3b7b5d1980a98e90b8a2a/skips_rad_peak102.4500.1790976462794.289_502db32bb3bcac3ae2cbcd53dc356df1.jpg)
- map
- Custom Map
- size
- 4500
- seed
- 1337
Server
srv.info()- address
- 98.2.204.240:28015
- region
- NA
- max players
- 20
- group limit
- 8, the default
- wipe schedule
- monthly
- last wipe
- 2 Oct 2026, 23:12 UTC
- hostname
- –
- first seen
- 19 Oct 2026
About this server · in its own words
print(srv.description)Similar servers · the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes
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|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | HELIOS - NA 10x | NA · groups of 10+ · 10x · monthly · 2 on average | 2/600 |
| 1 | RGB Creative Build | US Sandbox | Save/Load, Symmetry, BGrade | NA · groups of 100+ · monthly · 7 on average | 7/200 |
| 2 | AnythingGoes | 100x PvP | No BP | Kits | MyMini | NA · groups of 16+ · 100x · monthly · 4 on average | 4/50 |
| 3 | Builders Like Us | NA · groups of 32+ · monthly · 2 on average | 1/100 |
| 4 | TURBOSBLAST! US PVP | MONTHLY | ZOMBIES | Deep Sea Build | NEW! | NA · groups of 8+ · monthly · 1 on average | 2/200 |
| 5 | [NA] Builders Sanctuary 3.0 Creative | Sandbox | Minigames | | NA · groups of 8+ · 88 on average | 105/999 |
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Population data
Against other Rust servers, how does [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | rank?
Ranked #5,491 on seven-day player hours, [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | is #921 in North America and in the top 25% of all ranked servers.
How full does [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | run?
The sample now reads 0 players for [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |, out of 20 slots. Over the last seven days it averaged 0 players and peaked at 2. Averaged by hour over 48 hours, 03:00 UTC is the busiest, at 1 players.
Server facts
How smoothly does [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | run?
The 48-hour average is 157 server fps, with a low of 56. Entity numbers reached 90,246, and that includes buildings, deployables and the rest. A high of 3,524 MB of memory used. Lag, as players feel it, comes from an entity count that climbs and fps that falls.
What Rust version does [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | run?
The build is Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows, run by [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |. Steam updates your game for you, but the protocol must match to join.
How reliable is [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |, and is it online now?
[US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | reports itself online at the current refresh. A restart about 2 hours ago is what its reported uptime implies. Over the last 7 full days the hours up number 96 of 168, 57%. Rust Data logged it first on 19 October 2026.
Which location does [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | run from?
The NA tag is what [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | uses to list itself in North America. Rust Data does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. 98.2.204.240:28015 is its address.
Map and rules
Which settings and rules does [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | run?
The name carries the figure: [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | runs 5x gather. The group limit sits at the default of 8 players. Game mode build & creative, with this note: no gathering, just sandbox building. It appears under Modded, where plugins or settings change how the game plays. Carbon plugins run on it. Its own label is vanilla: no changed rates, kits or rules: the game as Facepunch ships it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
Which map has [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | selected?
Size 4,500, seed 1337: the procedural map on [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |, generated by the game. The same size and seed produce the same map; this page links to RustMaps so it can be viewed. Custom Map is what the map name field says.
Wipes and dates
When does [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | wipe, and on what schedule?
The next wipe for [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | is an estimate, drawn from the force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. The world it runs now was generated 24 days 21 hours ago. Its tags carry a monthly wipe schedule.
Lists and tags
Where does [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | appear among Rust Data lists and filters?
These Rust Data lists include [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |: Modded Rust servers, Rust servers filtered by gather rate: 5x, Servers with build or creative tags, Rust creative servers, listed and North America Rust servers. These filters bring it up 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.
How should you read the server tags on [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |?
Read by the game's server browser, the tags [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE | publishes are: gmrust (Game mode): Survival play, standard Rust; mp20 (Max players): 20 slots in total; ts8 (Group limit): Team limit of 8, as shipped by default; v2635 (Protocol): The server speaks protocol 2635, so match your game version; cs168909 (Build): The server runs build 168909; ptrak (Networking): Standard network layer for Rust: RakNet; $r? (Region code): The region field is empty; ^m (Monthly): Monthly: the wipe lands with Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules: the game as Facepunch ships it; ^c (Creative): Creative sandbox: gathering is off, building is open; ^z (Modded): The Modded section lists it, because plugins or settings change the game; ^y (Carbon): The plugin framework in use is Carbon; NA (North America): North America is its listing in the server browser. The tags also hold the current player count, the queue and when the world was made; these appear at the top of this page.
Connecting
What is the way to join [US] Skippy's Test Lab | 5x | PVE |?
Enter client.connect 98.2.204.240:28015 in the console (F1 in Rust). Or press Launch Rust here, which opens Rust through Steam and makes the connection.