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The Rust Bucket

Online, with 0 of 5 players on; ranked #15,268 of every public Rust server, the top 68%. It last wiped 19d ago.

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Launch Rust and join
0/ 5 players now 0% full
07-day averagepeak –
#15,268ranktop 68%
19d agolast wipeno schedule published
–next wipeno wipe seen yet

The crowd

Players

Who is on it, hour by hour and day by day.

AveragePeak
0123422:0007:0016:0002:0011:0020:00

Note: hourly average and peak, UTC.

Under the hood

Server performance

Frames per second, entities and memory, asked of the server itself.

010020030040022:0007:0016:0002:0011:0020:00

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 22 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.

RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k22 Oct23 Oct25 Oct26 Oct28 Oct29 Oct

Note: Top 68% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe cycle

Wipe schedule

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

The record

Wipes

Every wipe we saw, newest first.

WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
No wipe seen yet.

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.

If you like this one

Similar servers

The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.

  1. Rusty Moose |EU Mondays|EU · groups of 12+ · weekly · 506 on average198/250
  2. Rustoria.co - EU East LongEU · groups of 12+ · monthly · 318 on average270/300
  3. Rusty Moose |EU Main|EU · groups of 12+ · weekly · 282 on average723/800
  4. Rustafied.com - EU FridayEU · groups of 16+ · weekly · 277 on average42/100
  5. Rustoria.co - EU MainEU · groups of 16+ · weekly · 266 on average804/900
  6. Rustoria.co - EU East MediumEU · groups of 12+ · biweekly · 242 on average629/725

The short version

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Wipe days

On what schedule does The Rust Bucket wipe?

The record of The Rust Bucket's wipes is too thin yet to show its rhythm. A force wipe falls on every Rust server once a month, and the next one is Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 19 days 21 hours have passed since its current world was created.

Server details

Does The Rust Bucket hold a steady frame rate?

Average server fps over the last 48 hours was 214, with a floor of 182. Buildings, deployables and the rest took the entity count as high as 50,610. It drew as much as 3,546 MB of memory. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.

On what version does The Rust Bucket currently run?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what The Rust Bucket runs. Joining needs your game on the same protocol, which Steam updates for you.

How reliable is The Rust Bucket, and is it up at the moment?

Right now The Rust Bucket is up and running. About 2 days 22 hours ago is when it last restarted, judged from the uptime it reports. It spent 143 of the last 6 full days' 144 hours up, 99% of the time. Rust Insights first logged this server on 22 October 2026.

In which location does The Rust Bucket sit?

No region is published by The Rust Bucket. Rust Insights takes the location from what a server says about itself; no check is made of where the machine stands. You can reach it at 23.109.125.23:25731.

Tags

How should you read the tags listed for The Rust Bucket?

When the game's server browser reads The Rust Bucket, it finds these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as standard Rust plays; mp5 (Max players): 5 slots in total; ts8 (Group limit): 8 to a team, which is the default the game ships with; v2635 (Protocol): Your game must run the same version to join: the protocol is 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): Rust's standard network layer, RakNet, carries it; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. You will find the present player count, the queue and the world's creation time among the tags, and they are displayed at the top of this page.

Which Rust Insights filters and lists feature The Rust Bucket?

The Rust Bucket appears among the following Rust Insights lists: 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.

Population history

How many players are on The Rust Bucket right now, and how does that number move?

At the time of this refresh, The Rust Bucket holds 0 players on 5 slots. A seven-day average of 0 players puts the last week in context.

How does The Rust Bucket compare with other Rust servers in the ranking?

On player hours for the last seven days, The Rust Bucket sits at #15,268, inside the top 68% of ranked servers.

Map and rules

What settings and rules apply on The Rust Bucket?

Nothing about gather rate is given in the name of The Rust Bucket. No group limit is set, so the game's default of 8 players applies. You get survival as the game mode, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Players may raid and fight one another. You will find it listed under Community in the server browser. Anti-cheat: VAC, from Valve, is on.

Which map is live on The Rust Bucket?

Size 3,000 and seed 42069 define the procedural map on The Rust Bucket, generated by the game. The same size and seed produce the same map, so from this page you can look at it on RustMaps.

Join

How do you connect to The Rust Bucket?

To connect, start Rust and enter client.connect 23.109.125.23:25731 in the console (F1). Or join through Launch Rust on this page, which opens Rust via Steam and connects you.

The small print

Server tags

What each one means.

Published as mp5,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival as standard Rust plays.
mp5
Max players 5 slots in total.
ts8
Group limit 8 to a team, which is the default the game ships with.
v2635
Protocol Your game must run the same version to join: the protocol is 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking Rust's standard network layer, RakNet, carries it.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Note: 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.