Power level
Players on it, from the Steam server list.
Every five minutes.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Tale of the tape
Against its closest rival: the most similar server we track.
Wipe receipt
193.192.59.248:28400
THANK YOU · COME AGAIN NEXT WIPE
The map
Under the hood
Asked of the server directly. Low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
The ranking
Up 27 places on last week. Top 69% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 193.192.59.248:28400
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 50
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 1 Oct 2026, 18:34 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 13 Sep 2026
Other contenders
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Map and rules
What settings does Backyard use?
The name of Backyard does not include a gather rate. Up to 8 players per group, the standard default. It plays as survival, the default game of gathering, building and raiding. PvP and raiding are enabled. You see it under Community in the browser: it is a community server. VAC is on: Valve's anti-cheat is running.
What's the map on Backyard?
Backyard uses a procedural map of 3,500 that the game generates with seed 2147483647. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed give an identical map.
Server tags
What are the tags on Backyard for?
gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival setup; mp50 (Max players): Slot count: 50; ts8 (Group limit): The game default: 8 to a team; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: match it or you cannot join; cs167231 (Build): Running build 167231; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank are the tags Backyard puts out, and the game's server browser takes them in. The tags carry its current players, its queue and its world's creation time, and this page puts them up top.
What Boongarust lists feature Backyard?
On these Boongarust lists you will find Backyard: The busiest community servers in Rust. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server info
Performance of Backyard: does it hold up?
Average server fps over the last 48 hours was 36, with a low of 6. The entity count reached 72,703: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. At its highest, memory consumption was 1,974 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and entities pile up.
Where can you find Backyard?
No region is published by Backyard. Where a server says it is, that is what Boongarust shows. Where the machine actually stands is not looked up. You can reach it at 193.192.59.248:28400.
How reliable is Backyard?
Backyard is up as you read this. Its reported uptime points to a restart roughly 2 minutes ago. 168 hours out of 168 across the last 7 full days. 100% uptime. It entered Boongarust's records on 13 September 2026.
What Rust version is Backyard using?
On Windows, Backyard runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167231. Steam keeps your game updated; you need the same protocol to connect.
Wipe times
Wipe day at Backyard: what's it like?
0 players was the average peak on recent wipes. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 0 hours in.
When does Backyard wipe?
Once a month: Backyard wipes at the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is next, and every Rust server wipes with it. 6 days 23 hours ago this server built its current world.
Player counts
Where does Backyard sit in the rankings?
In the top 69% of all ranked servers, Backyard is #16,084 on player hours over the last seven days.
What's the player count on Backyard?
0 players are on Backyard at the moment, out of 50 slots. It averaged 0 players over the last seven days.
Join the server
How can you get into Backyard?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 193.192.59.248:28400. Or click Launch Rust here, which uses Steam to open the game and join.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167231,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.