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The Rust Bucket
Online 23.109.125.23:25731 checked 13m 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
daily · 1 is bestTop 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
newest first| 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.
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01COMPlayers 562/625
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02COMPlayers 423/450
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03COMPlayers 154/250
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04COMPlayers 53/100
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05COMPlayers 184/250
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06COMPlayers 333/225
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Filters
Where does The Rust Bucket appear in Rust Tracker lists and filters?
On Rust Tracker, The Rust Bucket sits in these lists: Community servers, no tags. These filters surface it on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
What do the tags mean that The Rust Bucket is listed under?
Listed for the server browser to read, The Rust Bucket publishes these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as standard Rust plays; mp5 (Max players): Capacity: 5 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size: 8; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): Network layer is RakNet, which is standard for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. At the top of this page you also get the queue, the players now and the world's creation time, all from the tags.
Wipe Times
When does The Rust Bucket wipe?
Too few wipes on record for The Rust Bucket to show its rhythm. Track the force wipe: Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Every Rust server resets on that date. This world has been running 19 days 13 hours.
Server Details
What is the uptime on The Rust Bucket, and is it online?
Tracking shows The Rust Bucket online as of now. The uptime it reports puts the last restart about 2 days 15 hours ago. 99% uptime over the last 6 full days, with 143 of 144 hours up. Rust Tracker logged it first on 22 October 2026.
Which Rust version is confirmed on The Rust Bucket?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what The Rust Bucket runs. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Is The Rust Bucket holding performance?
For the last 48 hours it averaged 214 server fps; the floor was 185. Buildings, deployables and the rest of the world took it to a maximum of 50,610 entities. It drew as much as 3,546 MB of memory. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.
Where does The Rust Bucket sit?
Nothing on region from The Rust Bucket; none is published. Where a server says it is, Rust Tracker shows; where the machine stands, it does not look up. You connect at 23.109.125.23:25731.
Population
Is The Rust Bucket busy?
The Rust Bucket is at 0 players, capacity 5. The last seven days put it at 0 players on average.
Where does The Rust Bucket sit in the server rankings?
Seven-day player hours put The Rust Bucket at #15,335, within the top 69% of all ranked servers.
Settings
Which settings and rules are confirmed on The Rust Bucket?
The name of The Rust Bucket carries no gather rate. The game's default applies: groups can have up to 8 players. survival is the game mode, gather, build, raid, as the game intends. Players can raid and fight each other here. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.
Which map is loaded on The Rust Bucket?
Generated by the game from seed 42069, the procedural map on The Rust Bucket measures 3,000. Same size, same seed, same map. RustMaps shows it, linked from this page.
How to Join
How do you get onto The Rust Bucket?
To connect: start Rust, press F1, enter client.connect 23.109.125.23:25731 in the console. Or use Launch Rust on this page to open Rust through Steam and join.
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.