The Rust Bucket
Offline 173.237.43.23:20000 checked 6d ago
Players now
- Full
- 0%
- In queue
- 0
- Peak, 48 hours
- –
- Peak, 7 days
- –
0% full
Rank
top 69%
7-day average
peak –
Last wipe
no schedule published
Next wipe
too few wipes seen yet
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 69% 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 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.
Similar servers
the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes- 1 226/ 250
- 2 196/ 225
- 3 20/ 250
- 4 17/ 250
- 5 20/ 100
- 6 100/ 200
Quick answers
from the figures on this pageAbout
Is The Rust Bucket online, and how reliable is it?
We last saw The Rust Bucket 6 days 20 hours ago. It is offline at the moment. Over the last 7 full days, 12 of 168 hours were online: 7%. Our records for it start on 4 October 2026, when Rust Dashboard first saw it.
Which version of Rust does The Rust Bucket run?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 is running on The Rust Bucket, which sits on Linux. Steam keeps your game updated, so it will be on the same protocol and able to join.
Where is The Rust Bucket located?
No region tag comes from The Rust Bucket. The location shown at Rust Dashboard is the one the server states; no lookup of the machine's position happens. You'll connect at 173.237.43.23:20000.
Tags, lists
Which Rust Dashboard lists and filters include The Rust Bucket?
You'll find The Rust Bucket on these themed lists at Rust Dashboard: Best 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.
What do the server tags on The Rust Bucket mean?
The browser in the game reads gmrust (Game mode): This is Rust as it comes, with survival rules unchanged; mp5 (Max players): The server has 5 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The game default applies: 8 per team at most; v2634 (Protocol): Your game needs to be on the same version, protocol 2634, to get in; cs167781 (Build): The game build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): The game's standard network layer, RakNet, carries this server; $r? (Region code): No region code is set from The Rust Bucket as its tags. At the top of this page you'll find the current players, the queue and the world's creation time, which the tags carry too.
Population
How busy is The Rust Bucket?
The last sighting of The Rust Bucket was 6 days 20 hours ago; it is offline right now. The seven-day average for this server is 0 players.
How does The Rust Bucket rank against other Rust servers?
Ranked #15,339 on the last seven days of player hours, The Rust Bucket is in the top 69% of all ranked servers.
Reset times
What does wipe day look like on The Rust Bucket?
The average busiest point of its recent wipes was 3 players. On the latest wipe, 0 hours passed before the crowd peaked. The crowd held above half that peak until the next wipe in 100% of recent wipes.
What is the wipe schedule on The Rust Bucket?
The record holds too few of The Rust Bucket's wipes to show a rhythm. A force wipe comes once a month for all Rust servers, next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The world it runs now dates from 19 days 6 hours ago.
Map and rules
What are the rules and settings on The Rust Bucket?
The name of The Rust Bucket gives no gather rate. 8 players per group is the game's default, and that is the cap here. survival is what it plays, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. Raids and player fights are part of the game here. The server browser lists it under Community. The anti-cheat from Valve, VAC, is active.
Which map does The Rust Bucket run?
A procedural map of size 3,000 with seed 42069 is what The Rust Bucket runs, generated by the game. Because size and seed fix the map, a RustMaps view is available from this page.
Connect
How do I join The Rust Bucket?
Type client.connect 173.237.43.23:20000 in the Rust console, which F1 opens. Launch Rust on this page also works: Steam opens Rust and connects you.