Element card · group Community · atomic number 15,348, its rank
Blind Squirrel Backlot
Online 66.51.99.73:28040 checked 10m ago
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
daily · 1 is best
Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 21h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 7d 21hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 35d 21hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
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
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 19 Oct, 11:34 UTC9d 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 pageMap and rules
What map is in play on Blind Squirrel Backlot?
Blind Squirrel Backlot runs a procedural map of size 4,250 with seed 913836496; the game generates it. You can view it on RustMaps from this page, since matching size and seed produce the same map.
What rules has Blind Squirrel Backlot set, and what settings are in force?
Nothing in the name of Blind Squirrel Backlot gives a gather rate. Groups top out at 8 players, the default for the game. Play runs as survival, gather, build and raid, as in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. It appears under Community in the server browser. Anti-cheat is on: Valve's VAC.
Server details
What region hosts Blind Squirrel Backlot?
Nothing about a region is published by Blind Squirrel Backlot. The location shown is the one a server states; Rust Data Lab does not check where the machine actually stands. You will find it at 66.51.99.73:28040.
What Rust version does Blind Squirrel Backlot currently run?
On Linux, Blind Squirrel Backlot is running Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. Your game needs to match the protocol to join, and Steam updates it automatically.
How reliably does Blind Squirrel Backlot stay online?
At the moment, Blind Squirrel Backlot is online. According to the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 6 days 3 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours were online, giving 100% uptime. It first appeared to Rust Data Lab on 1 October 2026.
Is Blind Squirrel Backlot known for smooth running?
The last 48 hours show an average of 5 server fps and a minimum of 5. The entity count reached 102,716, including buildings, deployables and all other world items. Up to 4,146 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Wipe schedule
What is the wiping pattern on Blind Squirrel Backlot?
The only wipe on Blind Squirrel Backlot is the monthly force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, this server wipes again: that is the force wipe that resets all Rust servers. The world it is running now dates from 9 days 9 hours ago. A monthly wipe schedule is what its tags publish.
What does a typical wipe day on Blind Squirrel Backlot involve?
At their busiest, recent wipes averaged 0 players. The latest wipe's peak fell 0 hours after it began.
Tags, lists
What should you understand from the tags Blind Squirrel Backlot carries?
gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival is the game here; mp50 (Max players): 50 is the slot count; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the game's default: 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2634, so your game needs the same version; cs167781 (Build): It runs build 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust; $r? (Region code): A region code has not been set here; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, tied to Facepunch's force wipe: that is the tag list Blind Squirrel Backlot publishes, and the game's server browser reads it. The tags carry more as well: current players, the queue and when the world was made, all shown at the top of this page.
Where among the Rust Data Lab lists and filters does Blind Squirrel Backlot come up?
You will find Blind Squirrel Backlot on the following Rust Data Lab lists: 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; Server tag: Monthly ^m; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Player counts
What position does Blind Squirrel Backlot hold among Rust servers?
Blind Squirrel Backlot sits at #15,348 for seven-day player hours, placing it in the top 69% of ranked servers.
How full is Blind Squirrel Backlot right now?
At the moment Blind Squirrel Backlot has 0 of its 50 slots filled. Over seven days the mean player count is 0.
How to join
What is the way to join Blind Squirrel Backlot?
You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and entering client.connect 66.51.99.73:28040, or by pressing Launch Rust here, which starts the game through Steam and joins for you.