Server profile
Blind Squirrel Backlot
Online, with 0 of 50 players on; ranked #15,373 of every public Rust server, the top 69%. It last wiped 9d ago.
Online 66.51.99.73:28040 checked 2h ago
The crowd
Players
Who is on it, hour by hour and day by day.
Source: every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Note: hourly average and peak, UTC.
Note: daily average and peak, UTC.
Under the hood
Server performance
Frames per second, entities and memory, asked of the server itself.
Note: 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.
The standings
Rank
Its place among every ranked server, day by day; 1 is best.
Note: Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
The wipe cycle
Wipe schedule
Force wipes only.
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 23h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 7d 23hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 35d 23hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
The first 48 hours of its last wipesPlayers each hour, from the hour of the wipe
Note: players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.
The record
Wipes
Every wipe we saw, newest first.
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 19 Oct, 11:34 UTC9d ago | 0 | – | running | 0 |
Note: 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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The short version
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Wipe cycle
What should you expect on wipe day at Blind Squirrel Backlot?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew 0 players on average. The peak crowd on this wipe came 0 hours after it started.
When does Blind Squirrel Backlot wipe, and how often?
The only wipe on Blind Squirrel Backlot is the monthly force wipe. Its next wipe falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, the force wipe that applies to all Rust servers. The world you are playing on now was made 9 days 8 hours ago. The tags put wipes at monthly.
About the server
What does performance look like on Blind Squirrel Backlot?
Average server fps over the last 48 hours was 5, with a floor of 5. Buildings, deployables and the rest took the entity count as high as 102,716. It drew as much as 4,146 MB of memory. What players feel as lag comes from low fps and an entity count on the rise.
What Rust version is live on Blind Squirrel Backlot?
The Rust build is network protocol 2634 and build 167781, running on Linux, for Blind Squirrel Backlot. The same protocol is required to join, and Steam takes care of updating it.
Has Blind Squirrel Backlot stayed online, and is it up now?
At the time of this check Blind Squirrel Backlot is online. Going by the uptime figure it gives, its last restart was around 6 days 3 hours ago. The last 7 full days gave 168 of 168 hours up, or 100% of the time. Rust Insights first logged this server on 1 October 2026.
What location is listed for Blind Squirrel Backlot?
No region is published by Blind Squirrel Backlot. The location shown on Rust Insights is the one a server states, not a lookup of where the machine sits. You can reach it at 66.51.99.73:28040.
Server tags
Which meanings sit behind the tags on Blind Squirrel Backlot?
The tags gmrust (Game mode): Survival as standard Rust plays; mp50 (Max players): The slot count is 50; ts8 (Group limit): The game default applies: teams cap at 8; v2634 (Protocol): Matching versions are required, and the protocol is 2634; cs167781 (Build): The game build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): The wipe cycle is monthly and lines up with Facepunch's force wipe are what Blind Squirrel Backlot publishes, and the server browser in the game reads them. Current players, queue length and the age of the world sit in the tags as well, shown at the top of this page.
Which Rust Insights filters and lists feature Blind Squirrel Backlot?
These Rust Insights lists include Blind Squirrel Backlot: Best Rust community servers. On the server list, the filters that surface it are 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
How many players are on Blind Squirrel Backlot right now, and how does that number move?
Blind Squirrel Backlot shows 0 players at the moment, against 50 slots. Across the past week the mean was 0 players.
In the ranking of Rust servers, where does Blind Squirrel Backlot place?
The player-hours ranking for the last seven days puts Blind Squirrel Backlot at #15,373, among the top 69% of all ranked servers.
Map and rules
How is Blind Squirrel Backlot configured, and what rules apply?
No gather rate appears in the name of Blind Squirrel Backlot. The default of 8 players per group is what applies here. survival is the game mode, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Players may raid and fight one another. Community is the browser category it appears in. Anti-cheat: VAC, from Valve, is on.
Which map is live on Blind Squirrel Backlot?
The game generates the map on Blind Squirrel Backlot: procedural, size 4,250, seed 913836496. The same size and seed produce the same map, so from this page you can look at it on RustMaps.
How to join
How can you get onto Blind Squirrel Backlot?
Type client.connect 66.51.99.73:28040 into the console, which you open with F1 in Rust. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same job by opening Rust through Steam.