Online173.237.43.23:20000checked 11m ago
The Rust Bucket
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 4 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 25% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
too few wipes seen yetNot enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 0 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 10 Oct, 00:49 UTC4d ago | 3 | – | running | 3 |
| Mon 5 Oct, 21:50 UTC8d ago | 3 | held half | 4.1 days | 3 |
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
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from the figures on this pageMap and rules
What are the rules and settings on The Rust Bucket?
The name of The Rust Bucket gives no gather rate. Groups can reach 8 players, the default for the game. survival is the game mode, the normal game, with gather, build and raid. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. The server browser lists it under Community. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What map is used on The Rust Bucket?
A procedural map of size 3,000 with seed 42069 runs on The Rust Bucket, generated by the game. From this page, RustMaps can display it: the same size and seed give the same map.
Player stats
What is the player count on The Rust Bucket?
The current population of The Rust Bucket is 0, out of 5 slots. The seven-day average is 0 players, with a peak of 3. The highest average over the last 48 hours occurred at 20:00 UTC, with 2 players.
What is The Rust Bucket's ranking among Rust servers?
Over the last seven days, The Rust Bucket ranks #5,553 for player hours, placing it in the top 25% of all ranked servers.
Tags
How should you interpret the tags on The Rust Bucket?
The game's server browser reads these tags from The Rust Bucket: gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival gameplay; mp5 (Max players): 5 player slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, which is the default for Rust; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version must match protocol 2634 to connect; cs167398 (Build): It runs on game build 167398; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the default network layer for Rust, and this server uses it; $r? (Region code): There is no region code. The top of this page also shows its current players, queue, and world creation time, all from the tags.
Where does The Rust Bucket appear in When Is Rust Force Wipe lists and filters?
On When Is Rust Force Wipe, The Rust Bucket is placed in these lists: Best Rust community servers. Its filters on the server list are Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.
Operator and location
Where can The Rust Bucket be found?
No region is published by The Rust Bucket. When Is Rust Force Wipe displays the location a server reports, not the physical location of the machine. You can reach it at 173.237.43.23:20000.
What is the performance like on The Rust Bucket?
It held an average of 166 server fps over the last 48 hours, never below 111. The world held as many as 50,640 entities: buildings, deployables and all other objects. At its peak it used 3,754 MB of memory. What players call lag is low fps plus a rising entity count.
How stable is The Rust Bucket, and is it online now?
Right now The Rust Bucket is up. Its reported uptime shows a restart roughly 4 days 5 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw it up 165 of 168 hours, 98% of the time. It was first seen by When Is Rust Force Wipe on 4 October 2026.
What Rust version is The Rust Bucket on?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398 on Linux is what The Rust Bucket runs. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe schedule
How often does The Rust Bucket wipe, and when?
The wipes of The Rust Bucket on record are too few to show its rhythm. The next monthly force wipe is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, and every Rust server wipes with it. The world in play now was built 4 days 6 hours ago.
What happens on wipe day for The Rust Bucket?
Its recent wipes averaged 3 players at peak. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 100% of its recent wipes.
Join info
What is the process to join The Rust Bucket?
Open Rust, press F1 for the console, then type client.connect 173.237.43.23:20000. Alternatively, use Launch Rust on this page to start Rust via Steam and join.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished as mp5,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167398,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp5
ts8
v2634
cs167398
ptrak
$r?
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.