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 bestTop 70% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 28d 10h. The force wipe
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No wipe seen yet. | ||||
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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What is the wipe schedule on Blind Squirrel Backlot?
Blind Squirrel Backlot's next wipe is an estimate from the force wipe. Its next wipe is the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, when every Rust server wipes. Its current world was made 29 days 16 hours ago. It publishes a monthly wipe schedule in its tags.
Players
How busy is Blind Squirrel Backlot?
Right now Blind Squirrel Backlot has 0 players on 50 slots. Over the last seven days it averaged 0 players.
How does Blind Squirrel Backlot rank against other Rust servers?
Blind Squirrel Backlot is #16,608 on player hours over the last seven days, in the top 70% of all ranked servers.
Rules and map
What are the rules and settings on Blind Squirrel Backlot?
Blind Squirrel Backlot gives no gather rate in its name. Groups can have up to 8 players, the game's default. Its game mode is survival, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Players can fight and raid each other. It is a community server, listed under Community in the server browser. Valve's anti-cheat, VAC, is on.
Which map does Blind Squirrel Backlot run?
Blind Squirrel Backlot runs a procedural map, generated by the game, of size 4,250 with seed 913836496. The same size and seed give the same map, so it can be looked at on RustMaps from this page.
Tags and lists
What do the server tags on Blind Squirrel Backlot mean?
Blind Squirrel Backlot publishes these tags, which the game's server browser reads: gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival; mp50 (Max players): 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): At most 8 per team, the game default; v2633 (Protocol): Game protocol 2633: your game has to be on the same version to join; cs165217 (Build): Game build 165217; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's standard network layer; $r? (Region code): No region code set; ^m (Monthly): Wipes once a month, with Facepunch's force wipe. Its players now, its queue and the time its world was made are in the tags too, and are shown at the top of this page.
Which Zongarust lists and filters include Blind Squirrel Backlot?
Blind Squirrel Backlot fits these Zongarust lists: Best Rust community servers. On the server list it comes up under 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.
The server
Where is Blind Squirrel Backlot located?
Blind Squirrel Backlot publishes no region. Zongarust shows where a server says it is; it does not look up where the machine stands. Its address is 66.51.99.73:28040.
Is Blind Squirrel Backlot online, and how reliable is it?
Blind Squirrel Backlot is online right now. It last restarted about 6 days 16 hours ago, going by the uptime it reports. Over the last 6 full days it was up 100% of the time, 144 of 144 hours. Zongarust first saw it on 1 October 2026.
Does Blind Squirrel Backlot run smoothly?
Over the last 48 hours it ran at 57 server fps on average, never below 49. It carried up to 101,325 entities: buildings, deployables and everything else in the world. It used up to 4,571 MB of memory. Low fps and a climbing entity count are what players feel as lag.
Which version of Rust does Blind Squirrel Backlot run?
Blind Squirrel Backlot runs Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217 on Linux. Your game has to be on the same protocol to join; Steam updates it for you.
Joining
How do I join Blind Squirrel Backlot?
Start Rust, press F1 to open the console and enter client.connect 66.51.99.73:28040. Or use Launch Rust and join on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.