The Rust Bucket
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 21%.
Power level
Players on it, from the Steam server list.
Every five minutes.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Tale of the tape
Against its closest rival: the most similar server we track.
Wipe receipt
173.237.43.23:20000
THANK YOU · COME AGAIN NEXT WIPE
The map
Under the hood
Asked of the server directly. Low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
The ranking
Top 21% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 173.237.43.23:20000
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 5
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 5 Oct 2026, 21:50 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 4 Oct 2026
Other contenders
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Server rules
What are The Rust Bucket's rules and configuration?
There is no gather rate in the name of The Rust Bucket. The group limit is 8 players, as the game defaults. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. PvP and raiding are enabled. Listed under Community in the server browser, it is a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What's the map on The Rust Bucket?
A procedural map of 3,000 with seed 76679 is in use on The Rust Bucket, made by the game. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed give an identical map.
Server tags
What do The Rust Bucket's tags signify?
The game's server browser reads the tags The Rust Bucket publishes: gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival setup; mp5 (Max players): Room for 5; ts8 (Group limit): The game default: 8 to a team; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: match it or you cannot join; cs167231 (Build): Build 167231; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's usual choice; $r? (Region code): The region code is missing. The top of this page also shows its current players, its queue and when its world was made, all taken from the tags.
Where does The Rust Bucket appear in Boongarust lists?
These Boongarust lists are a fit for The Rust Bucket: The busiest community servers in Rust. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server details
Is The Rust Bucket laggy?
The 48-hour average was 210 server fps; the floor was 132. At its peak, it held 51,066 entities, including buildings and deployables. It drew as much as 2,304 MB of memory. Lag, to players, means low fps and a growing entity count.
Where can you find The Rust Bucket?
No region comes from The Rust Bucket. Where a server says it is, that is what Boongarust shows. Where the machine actually stands is not looked up. You can reach it at 173.237.43.23:20000.
How reliable is The Rust Bucket?
Online: The Rust Bucket, at this moment. The uptime it reports suggests a restart around 1 hours ago. Uptime over the last 3 full days came to 100%, 72 hours from 72. The first record Boongarust has is 4 October 2026.
Which Rust build does The Rust Bucket have?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167231 on Linux: that is The Rust Bucket. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe info
How does The Rust Bucket handle wipe day?
Recent wipes peaked at 3 players on average. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 0 hours in.
The Rust Bucket wipes on what schedule?
The record holds too few of The Rust Bucket's wipes to tell its rhythm. The monthly force wipe hits every Rust server, and the next one lands on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The world you are on was made 3 days.
Population
Where does The Rust Bucket sit in the rankings?
Player hours over seven days put The Rust Bucket at #4,957, in the top 21% of all ranked servers.
Is The Rust Bucket busy?
The Rust Bucket is showing 0 players on 5 slots right now. It averaged 1 players over the last seven days and peaked at 3. The busiest time in the last 48 hours was 02:00 UTC, with an average of 3 players.
How to join
How do you connect to The Rust Bucket?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 173.237.43.23:20000. You can also use Launch Rust on this page to open Rust via Steam and connect.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp5,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167231,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.