The Rust Bucket
Offline 173.237.43.23:20000 checked 6d ago
Vital stats
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
Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
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 wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 0 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 10 Oct, 00:49 UTC19d ago | 3 | – | running | 3 |
| Mon 5 Oct, 21:50 UTC23d 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
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Tags
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include The Rust Bucket?
These Rust Pop Watch lists include The Rust Bucket: Community servers, by the numbers. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
What do the server tags on The Rust Bucket mean?
These are the tags The Rust Bucket publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp5 (Max players): There are 5 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2634 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2634; cs167781 (Build): Game build: 167781; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region is listed. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.
The players
How does The Rust Bucket rank against other Rust servers?
The last seven days of player hours place The Rust Bucket at #15,341, in the top 69% of all ranked servers.
How many players are on The Rust Bucket right now?
The last sighting of The Rust Bucket was 6 days 19 hours ago, and it is offline now. The seven-day average sits at 0 players.
Server facts
Is The Rust Bucket online, and how reliable is it?
The Rust Bucket shows as offline, last spotted 6 days 19 hours ago. The last 7 full days saw uptime of 7%, with 12 out of 168 hours online. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 4 October 2026.
Where is The Rust Bucket located?
There is no region from The Rust Bucket. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. You'll find it at 173.237.43.23:20000.
Which Rust version is The Rust Bucket on?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 is the version The Rust Bucket runs on Linux. Joining requires your game to match the protocol, which Steam updates for you.
Wipe days
What happens on The Rust Bucket when wipe day comes around?
The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 3 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 0 hours after it began. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 100% of its recent wipes.
What is the wipe schedule on The Rust Bucket?
The record of The Rust Bucket's wipes is still too thin to show its rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives, and every Rust server wipes with it at monthly intervals. 19 days 6 hours is when the present world was made.
Rules and settings
Which map does The Rust Bucket run?
A procedural map of 3,000 with seed 42069 is what The Rust Bucket runs, made by the game. RustMaps has it from this page, since identical size and seed give an identical map.
What are the rules and settings on The Rust Bucket?
The name of The Rust Bucket says nothing about gather rate. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. the usual game of gathering, building and raiding: that is the survival mode. Raids and PvP are both on the table. Community is its listing in the server browser. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.
Getting in
How do I join The Rust Bucket?
The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 173.237.43.23:20000. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.