Element card · group Community · atomic number 15,323, its rank
The Rust Bucket
Offline 173.237.43.23:20000 checked 7d 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
daily · 1 is best
Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
too few wipes seen yetNot 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
newest first| 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.
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Quick answers
from the figures on this pageMap and rules
What map is in play on The Rust Bucket?
A procedural map of size 3,000 with seed 42069 runs on The Rust Bucket, generated by the game. You can view it on RustMaps from this page, since matching size and seed produce the same map.
What settings and rules apply on The Rust Bucket?
The name of The Rust Bucket carries no gather rate. With no change from the default, groups can hold up to 8 players. Play runs as survival, raiding, building and gathering: the standard game. You can fight other players and raid them. You will find it under Community in the server browser. Anti-cheat is on: Valve's VAC.
Server facts
Which location is The Rust Bucket based in?
No region is published by The Rust Bucket. The location shown is the one a server states; Rust Data Lab does not check where the machine actually stands. You will find it at 173.237.43.23:20000.
On what Rust version does The Rust Bucket operate?
On Linux, The Rust Bucket is running Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. The protocol must match for you to join; Steam will update your game.
Does The Rust Bucket stay up, and how reliable is its uptime?
The Rust Bucket is not online at the moment; the last sighting was 7 days 2 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, 12 of 168 hours were online, giving 7% uptime. On 4 October 2026, Rust Data Lab saw it for the first time.
Wipes and resets
How often does a wipe happen on The Rust Bucket, and at what time?
Too few wipes are on record for The Rust Bucket to reveal a rhythm. A monthly force wipe happens on every Rust server, and the next one falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The world it is running now dates from 19 days 12 hours ago.
What does a typical wipe day on The Rust Bucket involve?
At their busiest, recent wipes averaged 3 players. Peak numbers on the latest wipe came 0 hours in. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that held in 100% of its recent wipes.
Where it appears
How should you read the tags on The Rust Bucket?
gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp5 (Max players): 5 is the slot count; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the game's default: 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2634, so your game needs the same version; cs167781 (Build): It runs build 167781; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the standard layer; $r? (Region code): A region code has not been set here: that is the tag list The Rust Bucket publishes, and the game's server browser reads it. The tags carry more as well: current players, the queue and when the world was made, all shown at the top of this page.
Where among the Rust Data Lab lists and filters does The Rust Bucket come up?
You will find The Rust Bucket on the following Rust Data Lab lists: Rust community servers, measured. You can find it on the server list by applying these filters: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
Player numbers
How does The Rust Bucket compare with other servers in the rankings?
The Rust Bucket sits at #15,323 for seven-day player hours, placing it in the top 69% of ranked servers.
How full is The Rust Bucket right now?
No live signal from The Rust Bucket right now, which was last seen 7 days 2 hours ago. Over seven days the mean player count is 0.
Connection
How can you connect to The Rust Bucket?
Open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 173.237.43.23:20000. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same job through Steam.