Blind Squirrel Backlot
Online 66.51.99.73:28040 checked 7m ago
Measurements
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 1 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.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 3h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 19 Oct, 11:34 UTC10d 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.
Quick answers
Player counts
How does Blind Squirrel Backlot rank against other Rust servers?
By player hours over the last seven days, Blind Squirrel Backlot places at #15,344, within the top 69% of ranked servers.
How busy is Blind Squirrel Backlot?
The count reads 0 players on Blind Squirrel Backlot, which has 50 slots. We counted 0 players on average across the past week.
Tags
What do the server tags on Blind Squirrel Backlot mean?
These are the tags Blind Squirrel Backlot publishes, as read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): 50 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default setting; v2634 (Protocol): The protocol is 2634; a different version will not connect; cs167781 (Build): This server runs game build 167781; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes take place, following Facepunch's force wipe. Player count now, queue length and the making of the world all sit in the tags as well, and the top of this page shows them.
Which Rust Population lists and filters include Blind Squirrel Backlot?
Blind Squirrel Backlot appears among the Rust Population lists that follow: Community servers, field-listed. These are the filters it appears under when you browse the list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Monthly ^m; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Wipe notes
What does wipe day look like on Blind Squirrel Backlot?
Across its recent wipes the busiest crowds averaged 0 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 0 hours in.
What is the wipe schedule on Blind Squirrel Backlot?
Once a month Blind Squirrel Backlot wipes, and that is with the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes its next wipe: the force wipe, when all Rust servers wipe. 10 days 3 hours ago the current world was made. A monthly wipe schedule is what its tags publish.
Map and rules
Which map does Blind Squirrel Backlot run?
Blind Squirrel Backlot uses a map the game generates, procedural, at size 4,250 with seed 913836496. You can look at it on RustMaps from this page: size and seed determine the map.
What are the rules and settings on Blind Squirrel Backlot?
No gather rate appears in the name of Blind Squirrel Backlot. The group limit is 8 players, which is the default. survival is what it runs, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. You can raid and fight other players here. You will find it under Community: it is a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, runs here.
Server details
Which version of Rust does Blind Squirrel Backlot run?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 on Linux is what Blind Squirrel Backlot uses. The protocol must match for you to join, and Steam updates it for you.
Does Blind Squirrel Backlot run smoothly?
The last 48 hours saw an average of 5 server fps, with 5 as the lowest. The entity count reached 102,553: buildings, deployables and all other objects. Memory use peaked at 4,202 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is low fps combined with a climbing entity count.
Is Blind Squirrel Backlot online, and how reliable is it?
Blind Squirrel Backlot is up and running at the moment. Judging by the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 7 days 1 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, or 99%. The first sighting by Rust Population was on 1 October 2026.
Where is Blind Squirrel Backlot located?
No region is published by Blind Squirrel Backlot. Rust Population does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. You will find it at 66.51.99.73:28040.
Getting in
How do I join Blind Squirrel Backlot?
To connect directly, open Rust's console with F1 and type client.connect 66.51.99.73:28040; or press Launch Rust on this page and Steam opens Rust and joins for you.