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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, measured since 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
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Top 69% 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 20h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 18:34 UTC FW
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 0 players at their busiest. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 0 hours in.
Once a month is all Backyard wipes, together with the force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. The world you are playing on was built 28 days 3 hours.
The Rust Live Stats lists that include Backyard are Live Rust community servers. You will find it on the server list under Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
The server browser reads gmrust (Game mode): Survival here follows standard Rust; mp50 (Max players): Slots: 50; ts8 (Group limit): Teams stop at 8, the default the game ships with; v2635 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2635, so match that version to join; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard the game uses; $r? (Region code): Region code: none set, which Backyard publishes. The current player count, the queue and the world's creation time also sit in the tags, shown at the top of this page.
Live now: 0 players on Backyard, out of 50 slots. Averaged over seven days: 0 players.
Player hours over seven days put Backyard at #15,276, in the top 69% of all ranked servers.
The name Backyard carries no gather rate. Eight players per group, which is the game's default. It runs survival, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. The server browser lists it under Community. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
A procedural map of 3,500 with seed 2147483647, generated by the game, runs on Backyard. RustMaps shows it from this page, since equal size and seed give an equal map.
No region is published by Backyard. Where the machine stands is not checked by Rust Live Stats; only the location a server states is shown. You can reach it at 193.192.59.248:28400.
The average server fps was 11 over the last 48 hours; the lowest was 5. It supported up to 74,772 entities, covering buildings, deployables and all other objects. The highest memory usage was 1,933 MB. Lag, as players feel it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Backyard operates on Windows with Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.
At the time of this update, Backyard is live. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 4 hours ago. It was online for 167 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, or 99% of the time. On 13 September 2026, Rust Live Stats saw it for the first time.
Enter client.connect 193.192.59.248:28400 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.