The Rust Bucket
Online 23.109.125.23:25731 checked 12m ago
Measurements
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.
Quick answers
Player counts
How does The Rust Bucket rank against other Rust servers?
Over the past week it ranks #15,341 for player hours, which puts The Rust Bucket in the top 69% of all ranked servers.
How busy is The Rust Bucket?
The Rust Bucket holds 0 players at the moment, out of 5 slots. A seven-day average of 0 players was counted here.
Lists and tags
What do the server tags on The Rust Bucket mean?
What the game's server browser reads from The Rust Bucket is this set of tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp5 (Max players): The server has 5 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team is the default limit; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank. You will see the player count, queue and world creation time at the top of this page, because the tags carry them too.
Which Rust Population lists and filters include The Rust Bucket?
The Rust Bucket appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Community servers, field-listed. Look for it under these filters on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
Wipe schedule
What is the wipe schedule on The Rust Bucket?
Too few wipes are on record for The Rust Bucket to show its rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe comes round, and every Rust server wipes with it. The world it runs now dates from 19 days 15 hours ago.
Settings
Which map does The Rust Bucket run?
The map on The Rust Bucket is procedural, made by the game at size 3,000 from seed 42069. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map.
What are the rules and settings on The Rust Bucket?
No gather rate appears in the name of The Rust Bucket. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. survival is what it runs, raid, build and gather: the standard game. Combat between players, raids included, is permitted. A community server, it appears in the Community section of the browser. You play with Valve's anti-cheat on: VAC.
About the server
Which version of Rust does The Rust Bucket run?
On Linux, The Rust Bucket runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Your game needs the same protocol to join; Steam takes care of updating it.
Does The Rust Bucket run smoothly?
It ran at 215 server fps on average over the last 48 hours, and never went below 187. The entity count reached 50,610: buildings, deployables and all other objects. Memory use peaked at 3,546 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.
Is The Rust Bucket online, and how reliable is it?
The Rust Bucket is up and running at the moment. The uptime it reports suggests a restart roughly 2 days 16 hours ago. Over the last 6 full days, 143 of 144 hours were online, or 99%. On 22 October 2026, Rust Population saw it for the first time.
Where is The Rust Bucket located?
A region is not published by The Rust Bucket. The location a server claims is what Rust Population shows, not the place where the machine stands. Connect at 23.109.125.23:25731.
How to join
How do I join The Rust Bucket?
To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 23.109.125.23:25731; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you.