The Rust Bucket
Offline 173.237.43.23:20000 checked 6d ago
Li2Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Li3Server 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.
Li4Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Bx1Wipe 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.
Bx2Wipes
newest first · each peak a flare-up, on one √ span to its biggest| 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.
Bx6Similar servers
the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipesLogQuick answers
from the figures on this pageWipe day
What does wipe day look like on The Rust Bucket?
Its recent wipes drew an average peak of 3 players. 0 hours into the latest wipe, player numbers topped out. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that held in 100% of its recent wipes.
What is the wipe schedule on The Rust Bucket?
Its rhythm cannot yet be told: too few of The Rust Bucket's wipes are on record. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the next monthly force wipe, when every Rust server wipes. The world in play now was made 19 days 3 hours ago.
Player counts
How busy is The Rust Bucket?
The last time The Rust Bucket was seen was 6 days 17 hours ago, and it is offline now. Averaged over the past week: 0 players.
How does The Rust Bucket rank against other Rust servers?
The top 69% of ranked servers includes The Rust Bucket, at #15,349 for player hours over the last seven days.
Rules and settings
Which map does The Rust Bucket run?
A procedural map of size 3,000 with seed 42069, generated by the game, runs on The Rust Bucket. From this page you can view the map on RustMaps, since the same size and seed give the same map.
What are the rules and settings on The Rust Bucket?
The name The Rust Bucket does not specify a gather rate. 8 players is the default group size, and that is the limit here. The server runs survival, gather, build and raid in the standard game. Combat between players and raiding are both possible. In the server browser it appears under Community, as a community server. The server has VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, turned on.
About the server
Which version of Rust does The Rust Bucket run?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 is the build The Rust Bucket runs, on Linux. Your game must run the same protocol to join, and Steam takes care of updating it.
Is The Rust Bucket online, and how reliable is it?
Last seen 6 days 17 hours ago, The Rust Bucket is offline right now. 12 of 168 hours up over the last 7 full days, which is 7%. Rust Heatmap has had it on record since 4 October 2026.
Where is The Rust Bucket located?
A region is not published for The Rust Bucket. What Rust Heatmap shows is where a server says it is. Where the machine stands is not looked up. 173.237.43.23:20000 is its address.
Tags
Which Rust Heatmap lists and filters include The Rust Bucket?
These Rust Heatmap lists include The Rust Bucket: Best Rust community servers. You will find it 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 reads the tags The Rust Bucket publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival, standard rules; mp5 (Max players): This server has 5 slots; ts8 (Group limit): At most 8 per team: the default the game ships with; v2634 (Protocol): Your game must match protocol 2634 to get in; cs167781 (Build): The game build here is 167781; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. The top of this page also shows the tags for players now, the queue and when the world was made.
How to join
How do I join The Rust Bucket?
To join by console, open it with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 173.237.43.23:20000. Or press Launch Rust on this page, which connects you through Steam.