Online23.109.125.23:25731checked 11m ago
The Rust Bucket
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. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 70% 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 wipesQuick answers
from the figures on this pageRules, map and settings
What are the server rules for The Rust Bucket?
The name of The Rust Bucket does not state a gather rate. Up to 8 players per group, which is the game's default. The server runs survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Under Community in the server browser, it is a community server. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.
Which map is running on The Rust Bucket?
The game generates a procedural map of size 3,000 with seed 42069 for The Rust Bucket. The map is identical for the same size and seed, so it can be viewed on RustMaps from this page.
Server tags
Where can The Rust Bucket be found in Rust Player Count lists and filters?
These Rust Player Count lists include The Rust Bucket: Best Rust PvE servers. You can find it on the server list using these filters: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
What information do the tags on The Rust Bucket convey?
For the game's server browser, The Rust Bucket publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as standard in Rust; mp5 (Max players): Capacity: 5 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, which is what the game sets by default; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs167781 (Build): It runs on game build 167781; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the game's default networking; $r? (Region code): The region code field is empty. At the top of this page, its tags show its current players, queue and world creation time as well.
Player count
How many players does The Rust Bucket have?
0 of 5 slots are filled on The Rust Bucket right now. The average player count for the past seven days is 0.
What position does The Rust Bucket hold among Rust servers?
For player hours in the last seven days, The Rust Bucket ranks #15,098 and is in the top 70% of all ranked servers.
About the server
What is the uptime and reliability of The Rust Bucket?
You can find The Rust Bucket online at the moment. The uptime it gives suggests it restarted about 1 hours ago. Rust Player Count recorded it for the first time on 22 October 2026.
What Rust version is used on The Rust Bucket?
Linux hosts The Rust Bucket, which runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam updates it for you.
What region does The Rust Bucket serve?
A region is not published by The Rust Bucket. Where a server says it is, that is what Rust Player Count shows; it does not check the machine's actual location. It is located at 23.109.125.23:25731.
What is the performance like on The Rust Bucket?
The server ran at an average of 231 fps over the last 48 hours, never falling below 229. The highest entity count was 49,910, covering buildings, deployables and all other objects. Memory usage reached up to 2,250 MB. What players perceive as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Wipe schedule
When does The Rust Bucket wipe?
Too few wipes are recorded for The Rust Bucket to reveal its pattern. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the next monthly force wipe arrives, wiping every Rust server. It has been running its current world for 12 days 13 hours.
How to join
What is the process to join The Rust Bucket?
Open the Rust console with F1, then type client.connect 23.109.125.23:25731. Alternatively, fit into the server through the Launch Rust button on this page; that starts Rust via Steam and joins you.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished as mp5,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp5
ts8
v2634
cs167781
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.