Blind Squirrel Backlot
66.51.99.73:28040 checked 8m 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
Top 71% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 22d 20h. The force wipe
Wipes
| 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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Quick answers
Player counts
How busy is Blind Squirrel Backlot?
The current population of Blind Squirrel Backlot is 0 out of 50 slots. Averaged over the past week: 0 players.
How does Blind Squirrel Backlot rank against other Rust servers?
For player hours in the last seven days, Blind Squirrel Backlot holds rank #15,967 and is in the top 71% of all ranked servers.
Wipe times
What is the wipe schedule on Blind Squirrel Backlot?
From the force wipe, an estimate is made of the next wipe for Blind Squirrel Backlot. Its next wipe falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, the force wipe that clears every Rust server. 35 days 6 hours is how long the present world has lasted. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
Server
Is Blind Squirrel Backlot online, and how reliable is it?
Blind Squirrel Backlot is online at the moment. Based on reported uptime, the last restart was roughly 12 days 6 hours ago. 168 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, 100% uptime. When Is Wipe has tracked it since 1 October 2026.
Performance of Blind Squirrel Backlot: does it run smoothly?
The last 48 hours saw an average of 52 server fps and a low of 40. The highest entity count was 101,426, including buildings, deployables and everything else. Memory use reached 5,893 MB. Low fps together with an increasing entity count is what players call lag.
Which version of Rust does Blind Squirrel Backlot run?
Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217 on Linux is what Blind Squirrel Backlot runs. Steam updates your game, so the protocol matches when you join.
Where is Blind Squirrel Backlot located?
For Blind Squirrel Backlot, no region is published. When Is Wipe shows the location a server claims; it does not look up the machine's actual location. You can reach it at 66.51.99.73:28040.
Lists and tags
Which When Is Wipe lists include Blind Squirrel Backlot? And filters?
These When Is Wipe lists include Blind Squirrel Backlot: Community Rust servers. It appears under these filters on the server list: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Monthly ^m; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
What do the server tags on Blind Squirrel Backlot mean?
The game's server browser reads the tags Blind Squirrel Backlot publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival is the game mode; mp50 (Max players): Slot count: 50; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size applies: 8 maximum; v2633 (Protocol): Your game version has to be on protocol 2633 to connect; cs165217 (Build): This server runs build 165217; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer in use here, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^m (Monthly): It wipes monthly, together with the force wipe. The tags also hold its population now, its queue and when its world was made, all shown at the top of this page.
Rules, map
What rules does Blind Squirrel Backlot enforce? And settings?
The name of Blind Squirrel Backlot does not state a gather rate. Under the default setting, groups are limited to 8 players. standard survival: gathering, building, raiding That is the game mode: survival. Combat and raiding between players are allowed. A community server, it appears in the Community section. VAC is on.
Which map does Blind Squirrel Backlot run?
A procedural map, size 4,250 with seed 913836496, is used by Blind Squirrel Backlot; the game generates it. With the same size and seed, the map is identical and can be seen on RustMaps from here.
How to join
How do I join Blind Squirrel Backlot?
Open Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 66.51.99.73:28040 in the console. Alternatively, use Launch Rust on this page to open the game via Steam and connect.
Server tags
Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2633,^m,gmrust,cs165217,ts8
Game
gmrust- Game mode Standard survival is the game mode.
mp50- Max players Slot count: 50.
ts8- Group limit Default team size applies: 8 maximum.
v2633- Protocol Your game version has to be on protocol 2633 to connect.
cs165217- Build This server runs build 165217.
ptrak- Networking RakNet is the network layer in use here, as standard for the game.
$r?- Region code No region code has been set.
Wipe schedule
^m- Monthly It wipes monthly, together with the force wipe.
Players now (cp), the queue (qp) and the wipe time (born) are in the tag string too; they change every few minutes and are shown at the top of the page. Flag meanings are Facepunch's.