Rusty Bucket
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 23%.
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
73.8.224.163:28015
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
Up 627 places on last week. Top 23% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 73.8.224.163:28015
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 2
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- monthly
- Last wipe
- 3 Oct 2026, 14:08 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 19 Sep 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 Rusty Bucket's rules and configuration?
No gather rate appears in the name of Rusty Bucket. Up to 8 players per group, the standard default. survival is the game mode, the default game of gathering, building and raiding. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser lists it as Modded: plugins or settings alter the game. Oxide plugins are running on it. The server has VAC off.
What's the map on Rusty Bucket?
Rusty Bucket uses a procedural map that the game generates.
Server tags
What are the tags on Rusty Bucket for?
The game's server browser reads the tags Rusty Bucket publishes: gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival setup; mp2 (Max players): Room for 2; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size is 8; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version must equal protocol 2634 to get in; cs166652 (Build): Running build 166652; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): Wipes land once a month, alongside the force wipe; ^o (Oxide): It uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): Modded: plugins or settings change how it plays. From the tags, this page also pulls its live player count, its queue and its world's creation time, and puts them at the top.
Which Boongarust filters show Rusty Bucket?
On these Boongarust lists you will find Rusty Bucket: Top modded Rust servers. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server info
Where can you find Rusty Bucket?
No region is published by Rusty Bucket. What you see on Boongarust is where a server says it is, not where the machine is found to stand. You can reach it at 73.8.224.163:28015.
What's the uptime like on Rusty Bucket?
Rusty Bucket is up as you read this. Uptime over the last 7 full days came to 100%, 168 hours from 168. It entered Boongarust's records on 19 September 2026.
What Rust version is Rusty Bucket using?
On Windows, Rusty Bucket runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652. You must match the protocol to join; Steam updates it automatically.
Wipe info
How does Rusty Bucket handle wipe day?
Recent wipes peaked at 2 players on average. 2 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.
When does Rusty Bucket wipe?
Rusty Bucket wipes with the force wipe, once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes the force wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 5 days 2 hours ago this server built its current world. Its tags say it wipes monthly.
Player counts
Ranking wise, where does Rusty Bucket place?
Ranked #5,461 on seven-day player hours, Rusty Bucket is in the top 23% overall.
What's the player count on Rusty Bucket?
Right now, 0 players are on Rusty Bucket, which has 2 slots. It averaged 0 players over the last seven days and peaked at 2.
How to join
How can you get into Rusty Bucket?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 73.8.224.163:28015. 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 mp2,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,gmrust,cs166652,ts8,^o^z.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.