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Exhibit no. 15,358Acc. 2026.15358
The Rust Bucket
Rust server · in the archive since 4 October 2026
Offline 173.237.43.23:20000 checked 6d ago
The timeline
Wipes
Every wipe on record as a dated marker, the force wipes among them, and the wipes expected next. Newest first in the record below.
4 Oct Last seen 5 Oct21:50 10 Oct00:49
a wipe on recordthe monthly force wipeexpectedlast seen, 22 Oct 2026, 11:15 UTCAll times UTC.
The record of each wipe
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Sat 10 Oct 202600:49 UTC19d ago
- Peak
- 3
- Crowd
- –
- Lasted
- running
- Players before
- 3
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Mon 5 Oct 202621:50 UTC23d ago
- Peak
- 3
- Crowd
- held half
- Lasted
- 4.1 days
- Players before
- 3
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.
The rhythm
Wipe schedule
too few wipes seen yet
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 0 hours in.
The record
Population, performance and rank
Kept in folders: players every five minutes, every hour and every day; the server answering for itself; its rank among every server ranked.
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 4 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Related exhibits
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Visitors' questions about this exhibit
Quick answers
Answered from the figures on this page.
Lists and tags
What do the server tags on The Rust Bucket mean?
These tags from The Rust Bucket, read by the game's server browser, are: gmrust (Game mode): This server runs standard Rust survival; mp5 (Max players): 5 slots are set on this server; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default the game ships; v2634 (Protocol): The server runs game protocol 2634; matching it is required to join; cs167781 (Build): This server runs game build 167781; ptrak (Networking): Networking runs on RakNet, the game's standard layer; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. At the top of this page you also see the current players, the queue and when the world was made, all from the tags.
Which Rust Server History lists and filters include The Rust Bucket?
These Rust Server History lists include The Rust Bucket: Rust community servers. These filters on the server list bring it up: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
Server record
Which version of Rust does The Rust Bucket run?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 is the build The Rust Bucket runs, on Linux. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam keeps it updated for you.
Is The Rust Bucket online, and how reliable is it?
The record shows The Rust Bucket offline at this moment, last seen 6 days 15 hours ago. 12 of 168 hours, or 7% of the time, over the last 7 full days. 4 October 2026 is when Rust Server History first saw it.
Where is The Rust Bucket located?
No region is published by The Rust Bucket. Rust Server History does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You can reach it at 173.237.43.23:20000.
Wipe history
What does wipe day look like on The Rust Bucket?
An average peak of 3 players was drawn by its recent wipes. At 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak. Above half that peak until the next wipe it stayed in 100% of its recent wipes.
What is the wipe schedule on The Rust Bucket?
The record holds too few of The Rust Bucket's wipes to tell its rhythm. The monthly force wipe comes next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, and every Rust server wipes then. 19 days 2 hours ago its current world was made.
Population
How does The Rust Bucket rank against other Rust servers?
Player hours over the last seven days put The Rust Bucket at #15,358: a place in the top 69% of all ranked servers.
How busy is The Rust Bucket?
The last sighting of The Rust Bucket in the live count was 6 days 15 hours ago; it is offline now. An average of 0 players is recorded across the last seven days.
Rules, map
What are the rules and settings on The Rust Bucket?
No gather rate is stated in the name of The Rust Bucket. The limit of 8 players per group is the game's default. survival is the game mode, the usual game, with gathering, building and raiding. PvP and raiding are enabled. Under Community in the server browser, this community server is listed. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is active.
Which map does The Rust Bucket run?
Seed 42069, size 3,000: such is the procedural map The Rust Bucket runs, generated by the game. One size and seed produce one map, which RustMaps can show you from this page.
Joining the server
How do I join The Rust Bucket?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console, then enter client.connect 173.237.43.23:20000 to connect. Launch Rust from this page instead and you join through Steam with the connect already made.
The label explained
Server tags
What each tag this server publishes means.
Published 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.