The Rust Bucket
173.237.43.23:20000 checked 13m 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 24% 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 4d 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.
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Quick answers
Population
How busy is The Rust Bucket?
0 of 5 slots on The Rust Bucket are filled right now. The past seven days show 0 players on average and 3 at peak. Over the past 48 hours, the peak period was 20:00 UTC with an average of 2 players.
How does The Rust Bucket rank against other Rust servers?
By player hours over the last seven days, The Rust Bucket ranks #5,399 worldwide and sits in the top 24% of all ranked servers.
Wipe schedule
What does wipe day look like on The Rust Bucket?
The busiest points of its recent wipes drew 3 players on average. On the latest wipe, 0 hours passed before the crowd peaked. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 100% of its recent wipes.
What is the wipe schedule on The Rust Bucket?
Its rhythm is not yet clear from the wipes of The Rust Bucket on record. The monthly force wipe, next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, wipes every Rust server. 4 days 2 hours ago the current world was made.
Server
Is The Rust Bucket online, and how reliable is it?
The Rust Bucket is online at the moment. It reports an uptime that puts the last restart at about 4 days ago. 165 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, 98% uptime. When Is Wipe has tracked it since 4 October 2026.
Performance of The Rust Bucket: does it run smoothly?
Over the past 48 hours, it averaged 169 server fps, with a minimum of 114. At its peak it held 50,640 entities, which covers buildings, deployables and all other objects in the world. The peak memory usage was 3,587 MB. The feeling of lag players report is caused by low fps and entities climbing.
Which version of Rust does The Rust Bucket run?
The Rust version for The Rust Bucket is network protocol 2634 and build 167398, on Linux. Steam updates your game, so the protocol matches when you join.
Where is The Rust Bucket located?
There is no region published for The Rust Bucket. When Is Wipe shows the location a server claims; it does not look up the machine's actual location. 173.237.43.23:20000 is its address.
Lists and tags
Which When Is Wipe lists include The Rust Bucket? And filters?
Community Rust servers are the When Is Wipe lists that The Rust Bucket fits. It appears under these filters on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.
What do the server tags on The Rust Bucket mean?
gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival is the game mode; mp5 (Max players): The server holds 5 players; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size applies: 8 maximum; v2634 (Protocol): The server runs game protocol 2634; a version mismatch blocks joining; cs167398 (Build): This server runs build 167398; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, Rust's default; $r? (Region code): The server has no region code are the tags The Rust Bucket publishes, and the game's server browser reads them. The tags also hold its population now, its queue and when its world was made, all shown at the top of this page.
Map and rules
What rules does The Rust Bucket enforce? And settings?
No gather rate appears in The Rust Bucket's name. With the default limit, groups are limited to 8 players. On this server, the mode is survival, gather, build and raid, as standard. Combat and raiding between players are allowed. This is a community server, in the Community list. The server has VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, on.
Which map does The Rust Bucket run?
The map on The Rust Bucket is procedural, size 3,000, seed 42069, created by the game. With the same size and seed, the map is identical and can be seen on RustMaps from here.
How to join
How do I join The Rust Bucket?
Open Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 173.237.43.23:20000 in the console. Alternatively, use Launch Rust on this page to open the game via Steam and connect.
Server tags
Published as mp5,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167398,ts8
Game
gmrust- Game mode Standard survival is the game mode.
mp5- Max players The server holds 5 players.
ts8- Group limit Default team size applies: 8 maximum.
v2634- Protocol The server runs game protocol 2634; a version mismatch blocks joining.
cs167398- Build This server runs build 167398.
ptrak- Networking The network layer is RakNet, Rust's default.
$r?- Region code The server has no region code.
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.