Offline 173.237.43.23:20000 checked 6d ago
The Rust Bucket
By the numbersMatch stats
against its 5 slotsThe story of the match
Players, performance and rank, hour by hour and day by day.
CrowdPlayers
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
FitnessServer 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.
FormRank
daily · 1 is bestTop 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
FixturesWipe 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.
ResultsWipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 10 Oct, 00:49 UTC18d ago | 3 | – | running | 3 |
| Mon 5 Oct, 21:50 UTC22d 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
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Server details
Is The Rust Bucket online, and how reliable is it?
Offline right now, with a last sighting 6 days 10 hours ago: The Rust Bucket. 21% of the time over the last 7 full days, which is 36 of 168 hours up. The first record Rust Player Stats has of it is 4 October 2026.
Which Rust version is The Rust Bucket on?
Linux carries Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 at The Rust Bucket. Same protocol or no entry: your game must match, and Steam keeps it updated for you.
Where is The Rust Bucket located?
There is no region published on The Rust Bucket. What a server says about itself is what Rust Player Stats shows; no check is made of where the machine actually stands. You will find it at 173.237.43.23:20000.
Tags
What do the server tags on The Rust Bucket mean?
The game's server browser reads these tags from The Rust Bucket: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp5 (Max players): It holds 5 slots; ts8 (Group limit): No more than 8 to a team, as the game sets by default; v2634 (Protocol): Your game must be on protocol 2634 to get in; cs167781 (Build): The game build here is 167781; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard one; $r? (Region code): There's no region code on this one. At the top of this page the tags give you its players right now, its queue and the date its world was created.
Which Rust Player Stats lists and filters include The Rust Bucket?
You will find The Rust Bucket on the following Rust Player Stats lists: Community servers, ranked live. Under the server list's filters it appears in: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
Server rules
Which map is running on The Rust Bucket?
The Rust Bucket runs a game-generated procedural map: size 3,000, seed 42069. Same size, same seed, same map, so RustMaps shows it from this page.
What are the rules and settings on The Rust Bucket?
The name of The Rust Bucket does not say what the gather rate is. The cap is 8 players per group, the game's default. It plays as survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. You can fight and raid other players here. You will find it listed as Community. Anti-cheat is on: VAC.
Live counts
What is the population on The Rust Bucket at the moment?
Last seen 6 days 10 hours ago, The Rust Bucket is offline right now. Averaged out across the past week, the count is 0 players.
Where does The Rust Bucket sit in the rankings?
Player hours over seven days place The Rust Bucket at #15,348, among the top 69% of ranked servers.
Wipe timing
What is the wipe schedule on The Rust Bucket?
The record holds too few of The Rust Bucket's wipes to tell its rhythm. Next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the monthly force wipe, when every Rust server wipes. 18 days 20 hours ago, its current world was made.
What does wipe day look like on The Rust Bucket?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew 3 players on average. 0 hours after the wipe, the crowd peaked on the latest wipe. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 100% of recent wipes.
Connect
How do I join The Rust Bucket?
In the Rust console (F1) type client.connect 173.237.43.23:20000. Alternatively, Launch Rust on this page opens Rust through Steam and drops you straight in.
GlossaryServer tags
what each one meansPublished as mp5,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp5
ts8
v2634
cs167781
ptrak
$r?
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.