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The count
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Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
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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.
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Top 40% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Coming up · wipe schedule
force wipes only
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 6d 18h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 2 hours in.
The current map
Saturday 3 October 2026, 12:52 UTC
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.
Recent wipes on this server averaged a peak of 2 players at their busiest. 2 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak.
Nothing wipes Rusty Bucket but the force wipe, once a month. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. 26 days 10 hours have passed since this world was generated. Its tags give wipes as monthly.
On Rust Live Stats, Rusty Bucket is listed under Modded Rust servers live now. You will find it on the server list under Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
These are the tags Rusty Bucket makes public: gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival, in the Rust style; mp2 (Max players): The slot count is 2; ts8 (Group limit): Team cap: 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): Join only if your game is on protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's usual network layer, carries this server; $r? (Region code): Region code: none set; ^m (Monthly): It wipes with Facepunch's force wipe, once each month; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, runs on this server; ^z (Modded): Modded: plugins or changed settings alter the game. Also in the tags: players on now, the queue, and when the world was made. You will find them at the top of this page.
Live now: 0 players on Rusty Bucket, out of 2 slots. Peak over the past week: 2. Average: 0 players.
Ranked by seven-day player hours, Rusty Bucket is #8,863, placing it in the top 40% of ranked servers.
The name Rusty Bucket carries no gather rate. No custom limit is set, so groups hold the default 8 players. survival is the mode, with the standard game: gather, build, raid. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. Plugins or settings change the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. Oxide plugins are in use. VAC is off: Valve's anti-cheat.
A procedural map, generated by the game, runs on Rusty Bucket.
No region is published by Rusty Bucket. Where the machine stands is not checked by Rust Live Stats; only the location a server states is shown. You can reach it at 73.8.224.163:28015.
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what Rusty Bucket runs. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.
Right now Rusty Bucket is online. 143 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 85% uptime. On 19 September 2026, Rust Live Stats saw it for the first time.
Use Launch Rust and join on this page to open Rust through Steam and connect, or start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 73.8.224.163:28015.