Rusty Bucket
Online 73.8.224.163:28015 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. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 40% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 0h. The force wipe · high confidence
- wipe-day peak
- 2players, last three wipes
Coming wipes
- in 7d 0hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- in 35d 0hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 2 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
3 OCT 2026Sat 3 Oct, 12:52 UTC26d ago |
2 | – | running | 0 |
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.
Rules and settings
On Rusty Bucket, which rules and settings apply?
The name of Rusty Bucket does not state a gather rate. The default group limit of 8 players applies. Filed under survival, gather, build and raid: the standard game. Combat and raiding between players are possible. The server browser lists it under Modded; plugins or settings alter the game. Filed under plugins: Oxide. The server has VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, turned off.
Which map is in use on Rusty Bucket?
Generated by the game, the map is procedural on Rusty Bucket.
Lists and filters
Where does Rusty Bucket appear among the Rust Server Index lists and filters?
Filed under these Rust Server Index lists is Rusty Bucket: Modded Rust servers, filed by play style. Filed under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
Which tags are attached to Rusty Bucket, and what do they stand for?
The server's own tags are listed here, and the game's server browser reads them: Rusty Bucket gives gmrust (Game mode): Survival on standard Rust rules; mp2 (Max players): The queue ceiling sits at 2; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, the default setting; v2635 (Protocol): Your client must run protocol 2635 to connect; cs168909 (Build): It runs build 168909; ptrak (Networking): Networking runs on RakNet, the game's default layer; $r? (Region code): A region code is absent; ^m (Monthly): The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside the Facepunch force wipe; ^o (Oxide): Oxide, also known as uMod, provides the plugin framework; ^z (Modded): Modded: the game is changed by plugins or settings. The top of this page shows three items from the tags: players at present, queue and world creation time.
Wipe schedule
How does a wipe day run on Rusty Bucket?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew 2 players on average. 2 hours into the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak.
When does Rusty Bucket wipe?
The only wipe on Rusty Bucket is the monthly force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes its next wipe: the force wipe, taken by every Rust server. 26 days 4 hours is when its current world was made. Its tags state a wipe schedule of once a month.
Population
What position does Rusty Bucket hold among Rust servers?
The seven-day player-hours ranking places Rusty Bucket at #8,831, among the top 40% of ranked servers.
How many players are on Rusty Bucket at the moment?
Rusty Bucket is currently showing 0 players on 2 slots. Filed under seven-day figures: an average of 0 players and a peak of 2.
Operator and status
What version does Rusty Bucket use?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what you will find on Rusty Bucket. To join you need the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
What is the uptime and current status of Rusty Bucket?
The server is live at this moment: Rusty Bucket. Uptime for the last 7 full days came to 99%, 167 hours out of 168. On 19 September 2026 it was first seen by Rust Server Index.
What is the location of Rusty Bucket?
There is no region on record for Rusty Bucket; it publishes none. What Rust Server Index shows is the stated location, not the machine's actual position, which it does not look up. Connection details: 73.8.224.163:28015.
How to join
How can you connect to Rusty Bucket?
Enter client.connect 73.8.224.163:28015 in the console, opened with F1. Or join on this page with Launch Rust, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
Server tags
What each one means.
Published as mp2,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z
Game
gmrust
mp2
ts8
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Mods and access
^o
^z
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.