The Rust Bucket
Key statistics
the figures behind the quote- Players now
- 0/ 5 0% full
- Change · 24h
- ▪+0 no reading a day ago
- 7-day average
- 0 peak 3
- Rank
- #5,399 top 24%
- Rank · 7d ago
- #5,040 ▼359 places down
- Last wipe
- 4d ago no schedule published
- Next wipe
- – too few wipes seen yet
- Group limit
- 8 8, the default
- Gather rate
- – no rate in the name
- Score
- 41 player hours, last seven days
- Map
- 3000 Procedural Map · seed 42069
- First seen
- 4 Oct 2026 no hostname published
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC. Busiest hour of the two days: 2 players.
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 bestTop 24% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
too few wipes seen yet- 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
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 10 Oct, 00:49 UTC4d ago | 3 | – | running | 3 |
| Mon 5 Oct, 21:50 UTC8d 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| # | Server | Last | Chg 24h | Players over the last 24 hours24h |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rustoria.co - EU East LongEU · groups of 12+ · monthly · 409 on average | 154/200 | ▼−3−1.6% | |
| 2 | Rusty Moose |EU Monthly|EU · groups of 12+ · monthly · 358 on average | 101/200 | ▲+9+10.1% | |
| 3 | Rusty Moose |US Monthly|NA · groups of 12+ · monthly · 340 on average | 411/450 | ▲+34+9.1% | |
| 4 | Rustoria.co - EU LongEU · groups of 14+ · monthly · 335 on average | 115/200 | ▲+28+31.9% | |
| 5 | Rustoria.co - EU MainEU · groups of 16+ · weekly · 299 on average | 28/250 | ▲+3+10.5% | |
| 6 | Rustafied.com - EU Long - LargeEU · groups of 16+ · monthly · 282 on average | 113/150 | ▲+32+39.6% |
Quick answers
from the figures on this pageServer Rules
How is The Rust Bucket configured in terms of rules and settings?
No gather rate appears in the name of The Rust Bucket. The default group size of 8 players applies here. It runs survival, gather, build and raid in the standard game. Combat and raiding between players are allowed. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. VAC is active.
Which map is played on The Rust Bucket?
The map on The Rust Bucket is procedural, size 3,000, with seed 42069, and generated by the game. You can see the map on RustMaps from this page, as the same size and seed give the same map.
Player Count
What position does The Rust Bucket hold in the server rankings?
For the last seven days, The Rust Bucket holds rank #5,399 on player hours, in the top 24% of all ranked servers.
How many players does The Rust Bucket have?
0 of 5 slots on The Rust Bucket are filled right now. The mean over the last seven days is 0 players, reaching 3 at its highest. At 20:00 UTC in the last 48 hours, it averaged 2 players, the busiest hour.
Wipe Cycle
What can you expect on wipe day for The Rust Bucket?
The average peak across its recent wipes is 3 players. On the latest wipe, 0 hours after the wipe, the crowd peaked. Half the peak was held until the next wipe in 100% of its recent wipes.
When does The Rust Bucket schedule its wipes?
The record holds too few of The Rust Bucket's wipes to establish its rhythm. The monthly force wipe applies to every Rust server. The next one falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. This world has been running for 4 days 1 hours.
Server Overview
What is the location of The Rust Bucket?
No region is published by The Rust Bucket. Rust Analytics reports the location a server claims, not the machine's actual location. You can reach it at 173.237.43.23:20000.
How is the performance on The Rust Bucket?
Server fps over the last 48 hours: 169 on average, 114 at the lowest. The entity count reached 50,640, covering buildings, deployables and all else in the world. Up to 3,587 MB of memory was used. A climbing entity count plus low fps is the lag players report.
The Rust Bucket runs which version of Rust?
The version in use at The Rust Bucket: Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398, on Linux. The protocol has to match for you to join, and Steam applies that update.
Is The Rust Bucket up, and how consistent is its uptime?
Online at this moment: The Rust Bucket. The reported uptime puts its last restart at about 4 days ago. 7 full days have passed with 98% uptime, 165 of 168 hours. 4 October 2026 is when Rust Analytics first saw it.
Tags & Filters
What is the meaning of the tags on The Rust Bucket?
The game's server browser reads gmrust (Game mode): Rust's standard survival mode; mp5 (Max players): It holds 5 slots; ts8 (Group limit): At the game default, teams hold up to 8; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: matching game versions are required to join; cs167398 (Build): Game build: 167398; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet; $r? (Region code): The region code is absent, which The Rust Bucket publishes. Also in the tags and at the top of this page: current players, queue and world creation time.
The Rust Bucket appears in which of the lists and filters on Rust Analytics?
These Rust Analytics lists include The Rust Bucket: Rust community servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.
How to Join
How can I connect to The Rust Bucket?
The console route: start Rust, press F1, enter client.connect 173.237.43.23:20000. The page's Launch Rust button opens Rust through Steam and connects you instead.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished as mp5,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167398,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp5
ts8
v2634
cs167398
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.