The Rust Bucket
Online 23.109.125.23:25731 checked 9m 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 22 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 68% 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.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No wipe seen yet. | ||||
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.
Lists and tags
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include The Rust Bucket?
These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include The Rust Bucket: Community servers, by the numbers. These filters bring it up 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?
For the server browser, The Rust Bucket lists these tags: 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; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): It's on game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.
Player counts
How does The Rust Bucket rank against other Rust servers?
A seven-day player-hours placing of #15,269 puts The Rust Bucket in the top 68% of all ranked servers.
How many players are on The Rust Bucket right now?
The current tally at The Rust Bucket: 0 players across 5 slots. Across the past week it drew an average of 0 players.
About the server
Is The Rust Bucket online, and how reliable is it?
The Rust Bucket is live at the moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 2 days 20 hours ago. It was up 99% of the time over the last 6 full days, 143 of 144 hours in total. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 22 October 2026.
Does The Rust Bucket run smoothly?
The 48-hour average was 214 server fps, with a low of 182. The world carried as many as 50,610 entities, including buildings and deployables. The highest memory usage was 3,546 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.
Where is The Rust Bucket located?
No region is published by The Rust Bucket. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 23.109.125.23:25731.
Which Rust version is The Rust Bucket on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version The Rust Bucket runs on Linux. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
The wipe schedule
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. The world it is running now dates from 19 days 19 hours.
The rules
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?
No gather rate appears in the name of The Rust Bucket. 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. It appears under Community in the browser. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.
Join up
How do I join The Rust Bucket?
The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 23.109.125.23:25731. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.