Squad5 Rust Bucket
Offline 73.8.208.252:28015 checked 38d 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 17 Sep. 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 1, 1 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 18 Sep, 16:43 UTC40d ago | 1 | – | running | 0 |
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 Squad5 Rust Bucket?
You'll find Squad5 Rust Bucket on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Modded Rust servers, live. It appears under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
What do the server tags on Squad5 Rust Bucket mean?
These are the tags Squad5 Rust Bucket publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp500 (Max players): It has 500 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2633 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2633, so your client has to match it to join; cs164530 (Build): The game build is 164530; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^o (Oxide): This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.
Population
How does Squad5 Rust Bucket rank against other Rust servers?
A seven-day player-hours placing of #15,490 puts Squad5 Rust Bucket in the top 69% of all ranked servers.
How many players are on Squad5 Rust Bucket right now?
Squad5 Rust Bucket went quiet 38 days 14 hours ago and is offline at the moment.
Server details
Is Squad5 Rust Bucket online, and how reliable is it?
Squad5 Rust Bucket shows as offline, last spotted 38 days 14 hours ago. It was up 0% of the time over the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours in total. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 13 September 2026.
Where is Squad5 Rust Bucket located?
There is no region from Squad5 Rust Bucket. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 73.8.208.252:28015.
Which Rust version is Squad5 Rust Bucket on?
Rust network protocol 2633 and build 164530 is the version Squad5 Rust Bucket runs on Linux. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.
The wipe schedule
What happens on Squad5 Rust Bucket when wipe day comes around?
Recent wipes averaged a peak of 1 players at their busiest. 1 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.
What is the wipe schedule on Squad5 Rust Bucket?
The record of Squad5 Rust Bucket's wipes is still too thin to show its rhythm. A force wipe comes round every month for all Rust servers, with the next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The world it is running now dates from 40 days 4 hours.
Rules and settings
Which map does Squad5 Rust Bucket run?
The procedural map on Squad5 Rust Bucket measures 4,500 and comes from the game with seed 12345. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map.
What are the rules and settings on Squad5 Rust Bucket?
Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on Squad5 Rust Bucket. Eight players per group: that is 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 is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Oxide plugins power it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.
Getting in
How do I join Squad5 Rust Bucket?
The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 73.8.208.252:28015. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.