Element card · group Community · atomic number 15,310, its rank
The Rust Bucket
Online 23.109.125.23:25731 checked 9m 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 22 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
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
Wipes
newest first| 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.
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Quick answers
from the figures on this pageServer setup
What map is in play on The Rust Bucket?
The Rust Bucket runs a procedural map of size 3,000 with seed 42069; the game generates it. You can view it on RustMaps from this page, since matching size and seed produce the same map.
How is The Rust Bucket configured, and what rules apply?
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. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. You will find it under Community in the server browser. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.
About the server
In what location does The Rust Bucket sit?
Nothing about a region is published by The Rust Bucket. What a server states is what Rust Data Lab shows for location; no lookup of the machine's whereabouts is made. You will find it at 23.109.125.23:25731.
What Rust version does The Rust Bucket currently run?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what The Rust Bucket uses. Your game needs to match the protocol to join, and Steam updates it automatically.
Does The Rust Bucket stay up, and how reliable is its uptime?
Right now, The Rust Bucket is reachable. About 2 days 18 hours ago is when it last restarted, based on its uptime. It was online for 143 of 144 hours in the last 6 full days, which is 99% uptime. It first appeared to Rust Data Lab on 22 October 2026.
Does The Rust Bucket hold a steady performance?
The last 48 hours show an average of 215 server fps and a minimum of 187. The maximum entity count was 50,610, covering buildings, deployables and all else in the world. Memory use peaked at 3,546 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is caused by low fps and an increasing entity count.
Wipes and resets
What is the wiping pattern on The Rust Bucket?
Too few wipes are on record for The Rust Bucket to reveal a rhythm. The next monthly force wipe, which wipes all Rust servers, is scheduled for Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 19 days 17 hours ago the current world was made.
Tags, lists
Which meanings sit behind the tags on The Rust Bucket?
gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp5 (Max players): It has 5 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, the default the game ships with; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the standard layer; $r? (Region code): The region field is left blank: 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?
The Rust Data Lab lists that include The Rust Bucket are: Rust community servers, measured. Applying these filters on the server list returns it: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
Player counts
How does The Rust Bucket compare with other servers in the rankings?
Player hours over the last week put The Rust Bucket at #15,310, inside the top 69% of ranked servers.
How many players does The Rust Bucket have at the moment?
Of 5 slots, 0 are taken on The Rust Bucket right now. The seven-day average for this server is 0 players.
How to join
How can you connect to The Rust Bucket?
In Rust, press F1 and enter client.connect 23.109.125.23:25731. Or click Launch Rust here to open Rust via Steam and connect automatically.