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Element card · group Community · atomic number 15,047, its rank

lux testing grounds

Offline 73.44.106.172:28015 checked 28d ago

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Atomic mass · players now 1/ 3 33% full Room to join
7-day average0peak –
Rank · atomic number#15,047top 65%
Last wipe28d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
Result 01

Players

Method
Every five minutes for the last two hours, from the Steam server list; hourly average and peak over 48 hours; daily average and peak over 90 days. UTC. Dashed lines are its wipes and the force wipes.
Result
No hourly history yet.

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Result 02

Server performance

Method
Asked of the server itself, hour by hour and day by day: its frame rate, the entities in its world and the memory it holds.
Result
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.

Result 03

Rank

Result

daily · 1 is best

RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k20 Sep24 Sep27 Sep1 Oct4 Oct8 Oct

Top 65% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

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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.

usual gap7.3 daysbetween real wipes
wipe-day peak1players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 1 OctThu 24 Sep
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.

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Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 21:24 UTC FW28d ago 1 – running 1
Thu 24 Sep, 13:55 UTC35d ago 1 – 7.3 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.

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Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Server setup

What map is in play on lux testing grounds?

Generated by the game, the map on lux testing grounds is procedural.

How is lux testing grounds configured, and what rules apply?

Nothing in the name of lux testing grounds gives a gather rate. With no change from the default, groups can hold up to 8 players. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. The server browser lists it under Community. Anti-cheat is on: Valve's VAC.

Server details

Which location is lux testing grounds based in?

There is no region on record for lux testing grounds. What a server states is what Rust Data Lab shows for location; no lookup of the machine's whereabouts is made. Connect at 73.44.106.172:28015.

On what Rust version does lux testing grounds operate?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494 on Windows is what lux testing grounds uses. The protocol must match for you to join; Steam will update your game.

Does lux testing grounds stay up, and how reliable is its uptime?

lux testing grounds is not online at the moment; the last sighting was 28 days 9 hours ago. It was online for 0 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, which is 0% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Data Lab was on 17 September 2026.

Wipes and resets

When does lux testing grounds wipe, and how often?

Too few wipes are on record for lux testing grounds to reveal a rhythm. The monthly force wipe resets every Rust server; it next occurs on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Counting back, the current world began 28 days 9 hours ago.

How does lux testing grounds look on the day of a wipe?

At their busiest, recent wipes averaged 1 players. Peak numbers on the latest wipe came 0 hours in.

Lists and tags

How should you read the tags on lux testing grounds?

gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp3 (Max players): It has 3 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the game's default: 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2634, so your game needs the same version; cs166494 (Build): The game build is 166494; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the standard layer; $r? (Region code): The region field is left blank: that is the tag list lux testing grounds publishes, and the game's server browser reads it. Also in the tags are the players on now, the queue length and the world's creation time, and you can see them at the top of this page.

Which Rust Data Lab filters and lists does lux testing grounds appear in?

You will find lux testing grounds on the following Rust Data Lab lists: Rust community servers, measured. You can find it on the server list by applying these filters: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.

Player numbers

How does lux testing grounds compare with other servers in the rankings?

The seven-day player-hours table has lux testing grounds at #15,047, in the top 65% of ranked servers.

What does the current player count on lux testing grounds tell you?

The last recorded sighting of lux testing grounds was 28 days 9 hours ago, and it is offline now.

Connection

How can you connect to lux testing grounds?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 73.44.106.172:28015. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same job through Steam.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp3,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166494,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp3
Max players It has 3 slots.
ts8
Group limit This uses the game's default: 8 per team.
v2634
Protocol The server runs protocol 2634, so your game needs the same version.
cs166494
Build The game build is 166494.
ptrak
Networking This runs on RakNet, the standard layer.
$r?
Region code The region field is left blank.

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.