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Element card · group Community · atomic number 15,273, its rank

Backyard

Online 193.192.59.248:28400 checked 14m ago

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Atomic mass · players now 0/ 50 0% full Room to join
7-day average0peak –
Rank · atomic number#15,273top 69%
Last wipe28d agono schedule published
Next wipe6d 12hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
Result 01

Players

Method
Every five minutes for the last two hours, from the Steam server list; hourly average and peak over 48 hours; daily average and peak over 90 days. UTC. Dashed lines are its wipes and the force wipes.
Result
AveragePeak
0123407:0016:0002:0011:0020:0005:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Result 02

Server performance

Method
Asked of the server itself, hour by hour and day by day: its frame rate, the entities in its world and the memory it holds.
Result
02040608007:0016:0002:0011:0020:0005:00

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 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.

Result 03

Rank

Result

daily · 1 is best

RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct14 Oct22 Oct30 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

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Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 6d 12h. The force wipe · high confidence

wipe-day peak0players, last three wipes

Coming wipes

  1. 6d 12hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
  2. 34d 12hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.

Reaction log

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Thu 1 Oct, 18:34 UTC FW28d ago 0 – running 0

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.

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Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Server setup

What map is in play on Backyard?

Backyard runs a procedural map of size 3,500 with seed 2147483647; the game generates it. Same size and seed give the same map, so this page lets you look at it on RustMaps.

What rules has Backyard set, and what settings are in force?

The name of Backyard carries no gather rate. Eight players per group is the limit, the game's default. survival is the game mode, raiding, building and gathering: the standard game. Raids and player fights are part of play here. You will find it under Community in the server browser. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.

Server facts

In what location does Backyard sit?

There is no region on record for Backyard. What a server states is what Rust Data Lab shows for location; no lookup of the machine's whereabouts is made. 193.192.59.248:28400 is the address it uses.

What Rust version does Backyard currently run?

On Windows, Backyard is running Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.

Does Backyard stay up, and how reliable is its uptime?

Right now, Backyard is reachable. The uptime it reports suggests it restarted roughly 13 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, giving 99% uptime. On 13 September 2026, Rust Data Lab saw it for the first time.

How well does Backyard perform?

Server fps averaged 10 over the last 48 hours, with 5 as the lowest. The maximum entity count was 74,772, covering buildings, deployables and all else in the world. Up to 1,933 MB of memory was used. Lag, as players feel it, is caused by low fps and an increasing entity count.

Wipe days

How often does a wipe happen on Backyard, and at what time?

Wiping once a month with the force wipe is what Backyard does. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is when this server next wipes, along with every other Rust server. Counting back, the current world began 28 days 12 hours ago.

How does Backyard look on the day of a wipe?

At their busiest, recent wipes averaged 0 players. Peak numbers on the latest wipe came 0 hours in.

Lists and tags

What should you understand from the tags Backyard carries?

gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): It has 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the game's default: 8 per team; v2635 (Protocol): Protocol 2635 is required; join only if your game matches it; cs168909 (Build): It runs build 168909; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the standard layer; $r? (Region code): No region code is set: that is the tag list Backyard publishes, and the game's server browser reads it. Also in the tags are the players on now, the queue length and the world's creation time, and you can see them at the top of this page.

Where among the Rust Data Lab lists and filters does Backyard come up?

The Rust Data Lab lists that include Backyard are: Rust community servers, measured. You can find it on the server list by applying these filters: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.

Player counts

How does Backyard compare with other servers in the rankings?

The seven-day player-hours table has Backyard at #15,273, in the top 69% of ranked servers.

How many players does Backyard have at the moment?

Of 50 slots, 0 are taken on Backyard right now. The past week gives an average of 0 players.

Getting on

What is the way to join Backyard?

In Rust, press F1 and enter client.connect 193.192.59.248:28400. Or click Launch Rust here to open Rust via Steam and connect automatically.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp50
Max players It has 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit This uses the game's default: 8 per team.
v2635
Protocol Protocol 2635 is required; join only if your game matches it.
cs168909
Build It runs build 168909.
ptrak
Networking This runs on RakNet, the standard layer.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

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.