Server profile
Squad5 Rust Bucket
Offline, with 0 of 500 players on; ranked #15,490 of every public Rust server, the top 69%. It last wiped 40d ago.
Offline 73.8.208.252:28015 checked 38d 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 17 Sep. 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 1, 1 hours in.
The record
Wipes
Every wipe we saw, newest first.
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 18 Sep, 16:43 UTC40d ago | 1 | – | running | 0 |
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 days
What does Squad5 Rust Bucket look like once wipe day arrives?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew 1 players on average. The peak crowd on this wipe came 1 hours after it started.
On what schedule does Squad5 Rust Bucket wipe?
Its rhythm cannot be read yet: Squad5 Rust Bucket has too few wipes on record. A force wipe falls on every Rust server once a month, and the next one is Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The world you are playing on now was made 40 days 9 hours ago.
About the server
Which Rust version is Squad5 Rust Bucket on?
The Rust build is network protocol 2633 and build 164530, running on Linux, for Squad5 Rust Bucket. Joining needs your game on the same protocol, which Steam updates for you.
Has Squad5 Rust Bucket stayed online, and is it up now?
The last sighting of Squad5 Rust Bucket was 38 days 19 hours ago, and it is offline at present. The last 7 full days gave 0 of 168 hours up, or 0% of the time. Rust Insights first logged this server on 13 September 2026.
Where does Squad5 Rust Bucket run from?
A region is not published by Squad5 Rust Bucket. Rust Insights takes the location from what a server says about itself; no check is made of where the machine stands. 73.8.208.252:28015 is where it answers.
Server tags
Which meanings sit behind the tags on Squad5 Rust Bucket?
The tags gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp500 (Max players): The slot count is 500; ts8 (Group limit): The game default applies: teams cap at 8; v2633 (Protocol): Your game must run the same version to join: the protocol is 2633; cs164530 (Build): The game build is 164530; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard; $r? (Region code): The region code field is empty; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) provides the plugin framework here; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it is filed under Modded are what Squad5 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.
Where does Squad5 Rust Bucket turn up among the Rust Insights lists and filters?
The Rust Insights lists that carry Squad5 Rust Bucket are Modded Rust servers, explained. You will find it on the server list by applying these filters: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
Population
How many players are on Squad5 Rust Bucket right now?
Squad5 Rust Bucket is offline at the moment; the last sighting was 38 days 19 hours ago.
In the ranking of Rust servers, where does Squad5 Rust Bucket place?
On player hours for the last seven days, Squad5 Rust Bucket sits at #15,490, inside the top 69% of ranked servers.
Rules and settings
What settings and rules apply on Squad5 Rust Bucket?
Nothing about gather rate is given in the name of Squad5 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. PvP and raiding are both enabled. Plugins or settings change the game, so it sits under Modded in the browser. Plugins: Oxide run here. The server has Valve's VAC anti-cheat switched on.
What is the map on Squad5 Rust Bucket?
Squad5 Rust Bucket runs a procedural map of size 4,500 with seed 12345, 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
What is the way to join Squad5 Rust Bucket?
Open the console with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 73.8.208.252:28015. You can skip the console by using Launch Rust here, which starts Rust through Steam and connects you.