Server profile
The Rust Bucket
Offline, with 0 of 5 players on; ranked #15,339 of every public Rust server, the top 69%. It last wiped 18d ago.
Offline 173.237.43.23:20000 checked 6d ago
The crowd
Players
Who is on it, hour by hour and day by day.
Source: every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Note: hourly average and peak, UTC.
Note: daily average and peak, UTC.
Under the hood
Server performance
Frames per second, entities and memory, asked of the server itself.
Note: 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.
The standings
Rank
Its place among every ranked server, day by day; 1 is best.
Note: Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
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.
The first 48 hours of its last wipesPlayers each hour, from the hour of the wipe
Note: players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 0 hours in.
The record
Wipes
Every wipe we saw, newest first.
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 10 Oct, 00:49 UTC18d ago | 3 | – | running | 3 |
| Mon 5 Oct, 21:50 UTC23d ago | 3 | held half | 4.1 days | 3 |
Note: 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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The short version
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Wipe schedule
What should you expect on wipe day at The Rust Bucket?
The average busiest point of its recent wipes was 3 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked. Half the peak held until the next wipe in 100% of its recent wipes.
How often does The Rust Bucket wipe, and on which day?
Too few wipes are on record for The Rust Bucket to reveal a rhythm. A force wipe falls on every Rust server once a month, and the next one is Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. This world dates from 18 days 21 hours ago.
About the server
What Rust version is live on The Rust Bucket?
The Rust build is network protocol 2634 and build 167781, running on Linux, for The Rust Bucket. You can only join if your game is on the same protocol; Steam handles that update.
Has The Rust Bucket stayed online, and is it up now?
Offline at the moment, The Rust Bucket was last seen 6 days 11 hours ago. It spent 36 of the last 7 full days' 168 hours up, 21% of the time. The first record Rust Insights has of it is 4 October 2026.
Where does The Rust Bucket run from?
A region is not published by The Rust Bucket. Rust Insights reports the location a server declares, not the physical place of the machine. Connect through 173.237.43.23:20000.
Lists and tags
What is meant by each tag on The Rust Bucket?
The tags gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp5 (Max players): 5 slots in total; ts8 (Group limit): 8 to a team, which is the default the game ships with; v2634 (Protocol): Your game must run the same version to join: the protocol is 2634; cs167781 (Build): Build 167781 is what it runs; ptrak (Networking): Rust's standard network layer, RakNet, carries it; $r? (Region code): A region code has not been set are what The Rust Bucket publishes, and the server browser in the game reads them. The tags also hold the current player count, the queue and when the world was created, all of which appear at the top of this page.
On which Rust Insights lists does The Rust Bucket appear?
The Rust Insights lists that carry The Rust Bucket are Best Rust community servers. On the server list, the filters that surface it are Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
Player counts
How many players are on The Rust Bucket right now, and how does that number move?
The Rust Bucket was last seen 6 days 11 hours ago and is offline right now. Across the past week the mean was 0 players.
Where does The Rust Bucket sit in the rankings?
The player-hours ranking for the last seven days puts The Rust Bucket at #15,339, among the top 69% of all ranked servers.
Rules and settings
How is The Rust Bucket configured, and what rules apply?
Nothing about gather rate is given in the name of The Rust Bucket. Groups can reach 8 players, which is the default in the game. survival is the game mode, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Players may raid and fight one another. Community is the browser category it appears in. VAC is on: Valve's anti-cheat is active.
What is the map on The Rust Bucket?
Size 3,000 and seed 42069 define the procedural map on The Rust Bucket, generated by the game. You can look at the map on RustMaps from this page, since the same size and seed produce the same map.
Connecting
What is the way to join The Rust Bucket?
Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 173.237.43.23:20000. You can skip the console by using Launch Rust here, which starts Rust through Steam and connects you.