Off air · chart position #15,351
The Rust Bucket
Offline 173.237.43.23:20000 checked 6d ago
Players
The Rust Bucket
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 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.
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 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
Host and version
Is The Rust Bucket online, and how reliable is it?
Right now The Rust Bucket is not running; the last sighting was 6 days 17 hours ago. 12 of 168 hours is what it managed over the past 7 full days, 7% of the time. The first record Rust Charts holds of it is 4 October 2026.
Where is The Rust Bucket located?
No region is published by The Rust Bucket. Rust Charts shows the location a server claims, not where the machine actually is. Connect at 173.237.43.23:20000.
Which version of Rust does The Rust Bucket run?
The build behind The Rust Bucket is Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781, hosted on Linux. Your game must match the protocol to get in, and Steam keeps it updated for you.
Player counts
How busy is The Rust Bucket?
Last seen 6 days 17 hours ago, The Rust Bucket is currently offline. Its average over the past week comes to 0 players.
How does The Rust Bucket rank against other Rust servers?
Player hours over the past week put The Rust Bucket at #15,351, among the top 69% of ranked servers.
Wipe days
What does wipe day look like on The Rust Bucket?
Its recent wipes peaked at an average of 3 players. 0 hours into the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak. 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?
Too few wipes on record for The Rust Bucket to show its rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe arrives, and it covers every Rust server. 19 days 4 hours is how long ago its current world was made.
How it is set up
What are the rules and settings on The Rust Bucket?
No gather rate appears in the name The Rust Bucket. Up to 8 players per group, as the game sets by default. survival is the game mode, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is on.
Which map does The Rust Bucket run?
The Rust Bucket runs a procedural map of size 3,000 with seed 42069, generated by the game. You can view it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed produce the same map.
Tags explained
Which Rust Charts lists and filters include The Rust Bucket?
The Rust Charts lists that carry The Rust Bucket are: Rust community servers, unmodded. 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.
What do the server tags on The Rust Bucket mean?
The game's server browser sees these tags from The Rust Bucket: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp5 (Max players): 5 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): Team size is capped at 8, the default; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: join only if your game matches that version; cs167781 (Build): The game build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): The region code is unset. The tags also carry the current player count, the queue and when the world was made. You'll find them at the top of this page.
How to join
How do I join The Rust Bucket?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and type client.connect 173.237.43.23:20000. Joining on this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you.