[PVE] Rusty Bucket | Raidable Bases | Events | NPCs |
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 10%.
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
176.20.131.39:28015
THANK YOU · COME AGAIN NEXT WIPE
The map
![Map of [PVE] Rusty Bucket | Raidable Bases | Events | NPCs |](https://files.facepunch.com/rust/map-images/e2c6ae7648c32c9b891d7ae8dfb7b1190d6f98e3cc03ac7bd1aad805ff6b3adb/proceduralmap.4500.1790876821300.289_e2c6ae7648c32c9b891d7ae8dfb7b119.jpg)
Under the hood
Asked of the server directly. Low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
The ranking
Up 251 places on last week. Top 10% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
In its own words
Welcome to Rusty Bucket: Where the Old Farts Play... A chilled UK PvE server for grown-up gamers who now prefer building, exploring, and occasionally dying (I mean surviving) together. Map & Blueprints wipe on the first Thursday of every month. Features: • Increased gather rates (wood & ores) • Reduced building upkeep & decay • Craft uncraftable items at workbenches • Workbench coverage extended throughout your base • Upgrade & repair your base directly from your TC • Random world events & custom monuments • Extra lootables (bin bags, filing cabinets & more) • Infinite candles (they won’t burn out) • Sleep to skip the nights • Bigger stack sizes for the hoarders • Stack electric furnaces & boxes • Grid power access or craft a test generator • Heli Assist for easier flying • Lock vehicles so they won't decay • Track airdrops & helicopters on the map • Patrol Heli ignores you unless you draw a weapon • Personal SAM sites target Patrol Heli • Headshots can instantly kill NPCs • And plenty more... Rules: • Be friendly & respectful • No griefing or trolling • No trespassing into other players' bases • No advertising or external promotion • Have fun and help others
Spec sheet
- Address
- 176.20.131.39:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 25
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- monthly
- Last wipe
- 1 Oct 2026, 17:47 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 13 Sep 2026
Other contenders
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Map and rules
What settings does [PVE] Rusty Bucket | Raidable Bases | Events | NPCs | use?
There is no gather rate in the name of [PVE] Rusty Bucket | Raidable Bases | Events | NPCs |. Up to 8 players per group, the standard default. It plays as pve, player-versus-player combat is off. The server browser lists it as Modded: plugins or settings alter the game. Oxide plugins are running on it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What's the map on [PVE] Rusty Bucket | Raidable Bases | Events | NPCs |?
[PVE] Rusty Bucket | Raidable Bases | Events | NPCs | uses a procedural map of 4,500 that the game generates with seed 93532827. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, as the same size and seed make the same map.
Server tags
What are the tags on [PVE] Rusty Bucket | Raidable Bases | Events | NPCs | for?
gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp25 (Max players): 25 players fit in; ts8 (Group limit): The game default: 8 to a team; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: match it or you cannot join; cs166652 (Build): Build 166652; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $r? (Region code): No region code on record; ^m (Monthly): The calendar is monthly: one wipe with the force wipe; ^p (PvE): Players do not fight players; the environment does the killing; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) handles the plugins; ^z (Modded): Modded listing, with plugins or settings altering the game are the tags [PVE] Rusty Bucket | Raidable Bases | Events | NPCs | puts out, and the game's server browser takes them in. The tags carry its current players, its queue and its world's creation time, and this page puts them up top.
Where does [PVE] Rusty Bucket | Raidable Bases | Events | NPCs | appear in Boongarust lists?
The Boongarust lists that take [PVE] Rusty Bucket | Raidable Bases | Events | NPCs | are: Top modded Rust servers and Best Rust PvE servers. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Type: Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Monthly ^m, PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server info
How smooth is [PVE] Rusty Bucket | Raidable Bases | Events | NPCs |?
The 48-hour average was 106 server fps; the floor was 29. At its peak, it held 135,578 entities, including buildings and deployables. Memory use peaked at 4,266 MB. What players call lag is low fps plus a rising entity count.
What's the location of [PVE] Rusty Bucket | Raidable Bases | Events | NPCs |?
From [PVE] Rusty Bucket | Raidable Bases | Events | NPCs |, there is no region. Boongarust takes the server at its word on location and does not check where the machine sits. You can reach it at 176.20.131.39:28015.
What's the uptime like on [PVE] Rusty Bucket | Raidable Bases | Events | NPCs |?
Online: [PVE] Rusty Bucket | Raidable Bases | Events | NPCs |, at this moment. The uptime it reports suggests a restart around 21 hours ago. 168 hours out of 168 across the last 7 full days. 100% uptime. It entered Boongarust's records on 13 September 2026.
What Rust version is [PVE] Rusty Bucket | Raidable Bases | Events | NPCs | using?
On Linux, [PVE] Rusty Bucket | Raidable Bases | Events | NPCs | runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652. You must match the protocol to join; Steam updates it automatically.
Wipe info
What happens on wipe day at [PVE] Rusty Bucket | Raidable Bases | Events | NPCs |?
5 players was the average peak on recent wipes. 45 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.
How often does [PVE] Rusty Bucket | Raidable Bases | Events | NPCs | wipe?
Once a month: [PVE] Rusty Bucket | Raidable Bases | Events | NPCs | wipes at the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is next, and every Rust server wipes with it. Its world is 6 days 7 hours old. Look at its tags: monthly wipe schedule.
Player counts
Ranking wise, where does [PVE] Rusty Bucket | Raidable Bases | Events | NPCs | place?
Ranked #2,494 on seven-day player hours, [PVE] Rusty Bucket | Raidable Bases | Events | NPCs | is in the top 10% overall.
Is [PVE] Rusty Bucket | Raidable Bases | Events | NPCs | busy?
[PVE] Rusty Bucket | Raidable Bases | Events | NPCs | is showing 3 players on 25 slots right now. The average over the last seven days was 2 players, with a peak of 8. The busiest time in the last 48 hours was 15:00 UTC, with an average of 5 players.
How to join
How can you get into [PVE] Rusty Bucket | Raidable Bases | Events | NPCs |?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 176.20.131.39:28015. Or click Launch Rust here, which uses Steam to open the game and join.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp25,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,^p,gmrust,cs166652,ts8,^o^z.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.