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An entry in the registerNo. 15,349

The Rust Bucket

Offline 173.237.43.23:20000 checked 6d ago

The Rust Bucket is a Rust server. It was offline at the last count. It stands at No. 15,349 of the ranked servers, the top 69%. It last wiped 19d ago.

§ 1Attendance

No hourly history yet.

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

§ 2Performance

This server has not answered a direct query in the last 48 hours.

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.

§ 3Standingthe rank, daily · 1 is best

RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k4 Oct9 Oct14 Oct19 Oct24 Oct29 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

§ 4The wipe scheduletoo few wipes seen yet

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

The rhythm
Usual gap4.1 days

between real wipes

Wipe-day peak3

players, last three wipes

Crowd held100%

of its cycles kept half the crowd

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Sat 10 OctMon 5 Oct
01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 0 hours in.

§ 5The record of wipesnewest first

WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers 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.

§ 6Similar serversthe same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes

  1. 1 Rusty Moose |EU Mondays|196/250 EU · groups of 12+ · weekly · 565 on average
  2. 2 Rustoria.co - EU East Long119/200 EU · groups of 12+ · monthly · 319 on average
  3. 3 Rusty Moose |EU Main|23/250 EU · groups of 12+ · weekly · 291 on average
  4. 4 Rustoria.co - EU Main11/250 EU · groups of 16+ · weekly · 289 on average
  5. 5 Rustafied.com - EU Friday23/100 EU · groups of 16+ · weekly · 274 on average
  6. 6 Rustoria.co - EU East Medium28/225 EU · groups of 12+ · biweekly · 251 on average

§ 7Questions answeredfrom the figures in this entry

The record

The Rust version for The Rust Bucket: which one?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 on Linux is what The Rust Bucket runs. The protocol must match on your game to join; the update comes through Steam.

Is The Rust Bucket up, and how steady is its uptime?

The Rust Bucket shows offline as of the latest refresh, last seen 6 days 14 hours ago. The records show 7% uptime over the last 7 full days: 12 of 168 hours up. The first sighting at Rust Server Stats was on 4 October 2026.

In which location does The Rust Bucket sit?

The server publishes no region: The Rust Bucket. Where the machine stands is not looked up by Rust Server Stats; it shows where a server says it is. 173.237.43.23:20000 — that is the address.

The rules and map

What map is in use on The Rust Bucket?

The Rust Bucket runs a procedural map, generated by the game, of size 3,000 with seed 42069. The map repeats with the same size and seed; this page links to it on RustMaps.

The rules and settings of The Rust Bucket: what are they?

The name of The Rust Bucket states no rate for gathering. Groups are capped at 8 players, the standard default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid: the standard game. Raiding and fighting other players are allowed. It appears under Community in the server browser and is a community server. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.

Player record

What population does The Rust Bucket carry?

The Rust Bucket is offline at present; the last response came 6 days 14 hours ago. The record shows an average of 0 players over the past seven days.

What position does The Rust Bucket hold among Rust servers?

On player hours over seven days The Rust Bucket ranks #15,349, inside the top 69% of all ranked servers.

The tags and lists

The Rust Bucket sits in which Rust Server Stats lists and filters?

These are the Rust Server Stats lists that include The Rust Bucket: Best Rust community servers. On the server list it comes up under these filters: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.

The tags on The Rust Bucket: what do they signify?

gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival, as Rust plays it; mp5 (Max players): 5 is the number of slots; ts8 (Group limit): Set at the game default of 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): Join only on protocol 2634; other versions cannot connect; cs167781 (Build): Game build: 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet carries it, the standard layer for the game; $r? (Region code): The region code is not set — that is the set of tags The Rust Bucket publishes for the game's browser. At the top of this page are its current players, queue and world creation time, all taken from the tags.

Wipe record

Wipe day on The Rust Bucket: what should be expected?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 3 players. 0 hours into the latest wipe the crowd reached its peak. The crowd held above half the peak until the next wipe in 100% of recent wipes.

The wipe timetable for The Rust Bucket: what does it show?

Too few wipes of The Rust Bucket are on record to establish its rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe takes every Rust server, without exception. The present world dates from 19 days.

Joining the server

What is the way to join The Rust Bucket?

Join on this page with Launch Rust, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you, or open the console with F1 and enter client.connect 173.237.43.23:20000.

§ 8Key to the tagswhat each one means

Published as mp5,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Standard survival, as Rust plays it.
mp5
Max players 5 is the number of slots.
ts8
Group limit Set at the game default of 8 per team.
v2634
Protocol Join only on protocol 2634; other versions cannot connect.
cs167781
Build Game build: 167781.
ptrak
Networking RakNet carries it, the standard layer for the game.
$r?
Region code The region code is not set.

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.