The Rust Bucket
Online 23.109.125.23:25731 checked 11m 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 22 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 69% 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.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No wipe seen yet. | ||||
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.
Settings and map
On The Rust Bucket, which rules and settings apply?
The name of The Rust Bucket does not state a gather rate. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. Filed under survival, building, gathering and raiding in the standard game. Combat and raiding between players are possible. It is listed under Community in the server browser and is a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What is the map on The Rust Bucket?
Size 3,000, seed 42069: the game generates the procedural map on The Rust Bucket. The map can be seen on RustMaps from this page, because the same size and seed give the same map.
Tags
Where does The Rust Bucket appear among the Rust Server Index lists and filters?
The Rust Server Index lists that include The Rust Bucket are Community Rust servers, indexed. It appears under the following filters on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
How should you read the tags listed for The Rust Bucket?
The server's own tags are listed here, and the game's server browser reads them: The Rust Bucket gives gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival, as standard; mp5 (Max players): The queue ceiling sits at 5; ts8 (Group limit): Game default applies: teams of up to 8; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; older or newer clients cannot join; cs168909 (Build): It runs build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The standard RakNet layer carries the connection; $r? (Region code): A region code is absent. Current players, queue length and when the world was made appear in the tags, set out at the top of this page.
Wipe schedule
How often is The Rust Bucket wiped, and on what schedule?
The record holds too few of The Rust Bucket's wipes to tell its rhythm. The next monthly force wipe is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, and it wipes every Rust server. The world it runs now was made 19 days 22 hours.
Players and ranking
Where does The Rust Bucket sit in the rankings?
Filed under rankings: #15,290 for The Rust Bucket on seven-day player hours, top 69% overall.
What does the player count on The Rust Bucket look like?
The Rust Bucket is currently showing 0 players on 5 slots. Averaged over the last seven days, the count is 0 players.
Server facts
Which Rust build is The Rust Bucket running?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what you will find on The Rust Bucket. To join you need the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Is The Rust Bucket reachable, and does it stay up?
Right now The Rust Bucket is up and running. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 3 days ago. Of the last 6 full days, 143 of 144 hours were up, 99% of the time. The earliest sighting at Rust Server Index is 22 October 2026.
What is performance like on The Rust Bucket?
Averaged over the last 48 hours, server fps was 214, with a low of 182. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world came to as many as 50,610 entities. The peak memory figure stood at 3,585 MB. What players feel as lag is low fps together with a rising entity count.
Where in the world is The Rust Bucket hosted?
No region is published by The Rust Bucket. Rust Server Index takes the server's word for its location and does not look up the machine's position. You will reach it at 23.109.125.23:25731.
How to join
What is the way onto The Rust Bucket?
Two ways in. Type client.connect 23.109.125.23:25731 into the Rust console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust and join on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
Server tags
What each one means.
Published as mp5,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp5
ts8
v2635
cs168909
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.