The Rust Bucket
173.237.43.23:20000 checked 6m ago
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 23% 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.
- usual gap
- 4.1 days between real wipes
- wipe-day peak
- 3 players, last three wipes
- crowd held
- 100% of its cycles kept half the crowd
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 UTC 3d ago | 3 | – | running | 3 |
| Mon 5 Oct, 21:50 UTC 8d 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
Quick answers
Population
What is the rank of The Rust Bucket?
In the top 23% of all ranked servers, The Rust Bucket is #5,215 on player hours for the last seven days.
Is The Rust Bucket busy?
The Rust Bucket: 0 players now, with 5 slots available. The seven-day average player count stands at 0, and the highest point was 3. The busiest time in the last 48 hours was 20:00 UTC, when the average player count was 2.
Tags & Lists
How should the tags on The Rust Bucket be interpreted?
Read by the game's server browser, the tags The Rust Bucket publishes are: gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival gameplay; mp5 (Max players): The server has 5 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The game default is 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: join only if your game matches this version; cs167398 (Build): Running build 167398; ptrak (Networking): Network layer: RakNet, the standard; $r? (Region code): Region code missing. At the top of this page you also see its players now, its queue and when its world was made, taken from the tags.
Which lists and filters on BestRustServers.xyz contain The Rust Bucket?
The BestRustServers.xyz lists that include The Rust Bucket are: Rust community servers, ranked. These filters on the server list display it: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server Details
What Rust version is The Rust Bucket on?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398 on Linux is what The Rust Bucket uses. Joining requires the same protocol; Steam updates your game for you.
Is the performance on The Rust Bucket smooth?
For the past 48 hours, server fps averaged 170, never dropping below 114. Buildings, deployables and the rest of the world accounted for up to 50,640 entities. Memory use peaked at 3,587 MB. Players feel lag when fps is low and entity count climbs.
How reliable is The Rust Bucket and is it online?
At the moment, The Rust Bucket is up. The uptime it reports shows a restart roughly 3 days 20 hours ago. Over the past 7 full days, it was online 165 of 168 hours, 98% of the time. It was first seen by BestRustServers.xyz on 4 October 2026.
The Rust Bucket location: where is it?
No region is published by The Rust Bucket. BestRustServers.xyz shows the stated location of a server; the actual location of the machine is not looked up. 173.237.43.23:20000 is its address.
Rules & Map
Which map is used on The Rust Bucket?
A procedural map of size 3,000 and seed 42069 is what The Rust Bucket runs, generated by the game. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed produce an identical map.
What are the settings and rules for The Rust Bucket?
No gather rate appears in the name of The Rust Bucket. No group limit is stated; the game's default of 8 players applies. It runs survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. Player combat and raiding are enabled. It is a community server, found under Community. The server has VAC on.
Wipe Schedule
The Rust Bucket wipe schedule: what does it show?
The record holds too few wipes for The Rust Bucket to show a rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the next force wipe arrives, when all Rust servers wipe. The world in play was made 3 days 21 hours.
On The Rust Bucket, what occurs on wipe day?
Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 3 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak. Half the peak was held until the next wipe in 100% of its recent wipes.
Join Server
What is the process to join The Rust Bucket?
Use the F1 console: client.connect 173.237.43.23:20000. Launch Rust on this page does the same by opening Rust through Steam and connecting.
Server tags
Published as mp5,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167398,ts8
Game
gmrust- Game mode Standard survival gameplay.
mp5- Max players The server has 5 slots.
ts8- Group limit The game default is 8 per team.
v2634- Protocol Protocol 2634: join only if your game matches this version.
cs167398- Build Running build 167398.
ptrak- Networking Network layer: RakNet, the standard.
$r?- Region code Region code missing.
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.