The Rust Bucket
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 25% 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 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.
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Quick answers
Map and rules
What is the setup on The Rust Bucket when it comes to rules and settings?
No gather rate appears in the name The Rust Bucket. That is the game's default: groups of up to 8 players. It runs survival, gather, build, raid: the regular game. Raiding and fighting other players are allowed. You will find it under Community in the server browser. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched on.
What is the map on The Rust Bucket?
The game generates the procedural map of size 3,000 on The Rust Bucket with seed 42069. Same size and seed, same map: RustMaps shows it from this page.
Population
What is the population like on The Rust Bucket?
Right now, 0 players are on The Rust Bucket, which has 5 slots. The seven-day average is 0 players, with a peak of 3. The highest average over the last 48 hours came at 20:00 UTC, with 2 players.
Where does The Rust Bucket sit in the rankings?
In the top 25% of ranked servers, The Rust Bucket holds #5,527 for player hours over the last seven days.
Lists and tags
What do The Rust Bucket's tags indicate?
What the game's server browser gets from The Rust Bucket is this tag list: gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival gameplay; mp5 (Max players): It holds 5 players; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the standard team limit of 8; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634—only players on that version can get in; cs167398 (Build): The game build is 167398; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): Region code left unset. Also in the tags: its players now, its queue and the time its world was made, and the top of this page shows them.
Where does The Rust Bucket appear in Rust Zerg Life lists?
The Rust Zerg Life lists that include The Rust Bucket are Rust community servers for clans. 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; Last wipe: In the last week.
About the server
What is the uptime and reliability of The Rust Bucket?
You can join The Rust Bucket now: it is online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 4 days 15 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, uptime was 98%: 165 hours up out of 168. The first time Rust Zerg Life saw it was on 4 October 2026.
How well does The Rust Bucket perform?
Server fps held an average of 160 for the last 48 hours, with a minimum of 111. It reached a maximum of 50,675 entities, covering buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. At its highest, memory usage hit 3,815 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Which Rust build does The Rust Bucket use?
The server The Rust Bucket runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398 with Linux as its operating system. You can only join if your game uses the same protocol, and Steam takes care of updating it.
What location does The Rust Bucket use?
There is no region published by The Rust Bucket. The location shown by Rust Zerg Life is what a server says; it does not check where the machine stands. Connect to it at 173.237.43.23:20000.
Wipe schedule
What happens on wipe day on The Rust Bucket?
The average peak for its recent wipes was 3 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 0 hours in. The crowd kept above half that peak until the next wipe in 100% of its recent wipes.
When does The Rust Bucket wipe?
With so few wipes on record for The Rust Bucket, its pattern is not yet clear. The monthly force wipe hits every Rust server, and on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC it is due next. The world in play right now was made 4 days 17 hours ago.
How to join
What steps do I take to join The Rust Bucket?
Enter client.connect 173.237.43.23:20000 in the F1 console. Another way: use Launch Rust on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
Server tags
Published as mp5,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167398,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp5
ts8
v2634
cs167398
ptrak
$r?
Players now (cp), the queue (qp) and the wipe time (born) are in the tag string too; they change every few minutes and are shown at the top of the page. Flag meanings are Facepunch's.