The Rust Bucket
Online 173.237.43.23:20000 checked 10m 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
daily · 1 is bestTop 32% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe 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.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 10 Oct, 00:49 UTC8d ago | 3 | – | running | 3 |
| Mon 5 Oct, 21:50 UTC12d 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
- 217/ 225
- 524/ 525
- 595/ 650
- 173/ 200
- 251/ 250
- 136/ 200
Quick answers
Tags and filters
Where does The Rust Bucket appear in Rust Going Deep lists and filters?
The Rust Going Deep lists that carry The Rust Bucket are: Rust community servers, going deep. The server list shows it under Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
How should you read the tags on The Rust Bucket?
The server browser shows these tags for The Rust Bucket: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, as standard Rust does it; mp5 (Max players): There are 5 slots on this server; ts8 (Group limit): It uses the default team limit: 8; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game has to be on protocol 2634; cs167781 (Build): It's on build 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the network layer Rust uses by default; $r? (Region code): The region field is empty. At the top of this page you will also find its current players, its queue and when its world was made — all from the tags.
Server details
Is The Rust Bucket lag-free?
Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 194, and the lowest was 148. At its peak it carried 50,521 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 3,354 MB. Players experience lag when fps drops and entities climb.
Where can you find The Rust Bucket?
No region comes from The Rust Bucket. Rust Going Deep reports the location a server claims; it does not check where the machine actually is. To connect, use 173.237.43.23:20000.
Is The Rust Bucket up, and how often does it stay online?
The Rust Bucket is live as of this check. Its reported uptime shows a restart about 43 hours ago. Over the past full 7 days it stayed up for 168 of 168 hours, or 100%. The first sighting by Rust Going Deep was on 4 October 2026.
What is the Rust version for The Rust Bucket?
The version on The Rust Bucket is Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781, on Linux. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam takes care of updating it.
Wipe details
When does The Rust Bucket wipe?
The wipes recorded for The Rust Bucket are too few to reveal its rhythm. Next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC: the force wipe that all Rust servers take every month. 8 days 6 hours is how long ago this world came into being.
What happens on wipe day at The Rust Bucket?
Across its recent wipes, the average busiest point drew 3 players. On the latest wipe, 0 hours passed before the crowd peaked. Above half that peak until the next wipe: the crowd managed this in 100% of recent wipes.
Settings and map
Which rules and settings is The Rust Bucket running?
Its name does not state a gather rate for The Rust Bucket. The group limit is the game's default of 8 players. It runs survival, gather, build and raid, the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. Community is where the server browser puts it, as a community server. The server runs Valve's anti-cheat, VAC.
What's the map on The Rust Bucket?
The map on The Rust Bucket is procedural and size 3,000, generated by the game with seed 42069. The map is reproducible from its size and seed, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
Player stats
Is The Rust Bucket busy?
Out of 5 slots, 0 are filled on The Rust Bucket right now. For the past week, players averaged 0 with a high of 2.
What's The Rust Bucket's rank among Rust servers?
Over the last seven days, The Rust Bucket is #7,171 by player hours, among the top 32% of all ranked servers.
Getting in
What's the way to join The Rust Bucket?
Open Rust and press F1, then type client.connect 173.237.43.23:20000. Alternatively, click Launch Rust on this page to join via Steam.