RS-5551Community server
The Rust Bucket
Online 173.237.43.23:20000 checked 14m 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
Top 25% 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 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.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Player activity
How many players are usually on The Rust Bucket?
The Rust Bucket is showing 0 players on 5 slots right now. Its seven-day average is 0 players, with a peak of 3. The busiest point in the last 48 hours was 20:00 UTC, when it averaged 2 players.
Where does The Rust Bucket sit in the rankings?
Ranked #5,551 on seven-day player hours, The Rust Bucket is in the top 25% of all ranked servers.
Tags, lists, and filters
On Top Rust Servers, which lists and filters carry The Rust Bucket?
These Top Rust Servers lists include The Rust Bucket: Best Rust community servers. 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; Last wipe: In the last week.
How should you read the tags on The Rust Bucket?
gmrust (Game mode): Survival follows the standard Rust ruleset; mp5 (Max players): There are 5 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634 is required to join; your game must be on the same version; cs167398 (Build): Game build: 167398; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is standard for Rust; $r? (Region code): Region code not set are the tags The Rust Bucket publishes, and the game's server browser reads them. At the top of this page you also see its players now, its queue, and the time its world was made, taken from the tags.
Settings and map
What is the map on The Rust Bucket?
The map on The Rust Bucket is procedural, size 3,000, seed 42069, and generated by the game. You can look at the map on RustMaps from this page, because size and seed determine the map.
What does The Rust Bucket run for rules and settings?
No gather rate is given in the name The Rust Bucket. The group limit is the game's default of 8 players. It runs survival, the normal mode where you gather, build and raid. You can fight and raid other players. The server browser shows it under Community. VAC anti-cheat is active.
Server details
What version is The Rust Bucket running?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398 is what The Rust Bucket runs, on Linux. Joining requires matching protocols, and Steam updates your game automatically.
How well does The Rust Bucket perform?
Its average server fps over the last 48 hours was 165, with a low of 111. Its entity count reached 50,640, including buildings, deployables and all other objects. Memory usage peaked at 3,754 MB. A climbing entity count and low fps are the source of the lag players feel.
What is the location of The Rust Bucket?
A region is not published by The Rust Bucket. What Top Rust Servers shows is where a server says it is, not where the machine stands, which it does not look up. 173.237.43.23:20000 is its address.
Is The Rust Bucket currently online?
Right now, The Rust Bucket is up and running. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was roughly 4 days 5 hours ago. Across the last 7 full days, it was online for 165 of 168 hours, or 98%. Its first appearance in Top Rust Servers was on 4 October 2026.
Wipe schedule
What happens on wipe day on The Rust Bucket?
Across recent wipes, the busiest times averaged 3 players. The peak of the latest wipe came 0 hours after it began. Half the peak was held until the next wipe in 100% of recent wipes.
When does The Rust Bucket wipe?
The record holds too few wipes to determine The Rust Bucket's pattern. The monthly force wipe applies to every Rust server; the next one is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Its world was last replaced 4 days 7 hours ago.
Connection
How can I connect to The Rust Bucket?
Use the console: open Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 173.237.43.23:20000. Or simply click Launch Rust here; it opens the game through Steam and connects you.