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Blind Squirrel Backlot

Online 66.51.99.73:28040 checked 9m ago

monthly wipes

Players now

Live
0of 50
Full
0%
In queue
0
Peak, 48 hours
0
Peak, 7 days
–

0% full

Mon 21:00Wed 19:00players each hour · 48 hours · UTC

Rank

#15,348

top 69%

7-day average

0

peak –

Last wipe

9d ago

monthly schedule

Next wipe

7d 22h

Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW

Players

AveragePeak
0123421:0006:0015:0000:0009:0019:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

0246821:0006:0015:0000:0009:0019:00

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
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k1 Oct6 Oct12 Oct17 Oct23 Oct28 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 22h. The force wipe · high confidence

0wipe-day peakplayers, last three wipes

Coming wipes

  • 7d 22hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
  • 35d 22hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers 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 page

Server

Is Blind Squirrel Backlot online, and how reliable is it?

Blind Squirrel Backlot is up and taking players now. The uptime it reports puts its last restart about 6 days 3 hours ago. It was online 100% of the last 7 full days, which is 168 of 168 hours. Rust Dashboard logged it for the first time on 1 October 2026.

Which version of Rust does Blind Squirrel Backlot run?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 is running on Blind Squirrel Backlot, which sits on Linux. You need the same protocol as the server to join. Steam updates your game for you.

Where is Blind Squirrel Backlot located?

There is no region on Blind Squirrel Backlot. Rust Dashboard takes the location a server gives; the machine's real position is not checked. You'll connect at 66.51.99.73:28040.

Does Blind Squirrel Backlot run smoothly?

Across the last 48 hours the average was 5 fps, with a floor of 5. Buildings, deployables and everything else added up to a peak of 102,716 entities. It drew as much as 4,146 MB of memory at peak. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Lists

Which Rust Dashboard lists and filters include Blind Squirrel Backlot?

These Rust Dashboard lists include Blind Squirrel Backlot: Best Rust community servers. You'll find it 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; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

What do the server tags on Blind Squirrel Backlot mean?

The game's server browser reads these tags from Blind Squirrel Backlot: gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival is the game mode; mp50 (Max players): The server has 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game's own limit of 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): Your game needs to be on the same version, protocol 2634, to get in; cs167781 (Build): Build 167781 is what it runs; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): The region code is blank; ^m (Monthly): Facepunch's force wipe sets the day, and this server wipes once a month. Current players, queue length and world creation time sit in the tags as well, and appear at the top of this page.

Live players

How busy is Blind Squirrel Backlot?

Blind Squirrel Backlot has 0 of its 50 slots filled at the moment. The mean over seven days is 0 players.

How does Blind Squirrel Backlot rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over seven days put Blind Squirrel Backlot at #15,348, in the top 69% of all ranked servers.

Reset times

What does wipe day look like on Blind Squirrel Backlot?

The average busiest point of its recent wipes was 0 players. On the latest wipe, 0 hours passed before the crowd peaked.

What is the wipe schedule on Blind Squirrel Backlot?

The only wipe on Blind Squirrel Backlot is the monthly force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe comes, and that is its next wipe, as it is for every Rust server. The world it runs now dates from 9 days 9 hours ago. The tags carry a wipe schedule of once a month.

Map and rules

What are the rules and settings on Blind Squirrel Backlot?

No gather rate appears in the name of Blind Squirrel Backlot. Groups hold up to 8 players, the default for the game. survival is what it plays, gather, build and raid: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players are both allowed. You will find it under Community in the server browser. Valve's VAC anti-cheat runs here.

Which map does Blind Squirrel Backlot run?

Blind Squirrel Backlot runs a procedural map of size 4,250 with seed 913836496, made by the game. This page links to RustMaps, where the map looks the same for its size and seed.

Join

How do I join Blind Squirrel Backlot?

Type client.connect 66.51.99.73:28040 in the Rust console, which F1 opens. Launch Rust on this page also works: Steam opens Rust and connects you.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,gmrust,cs167781,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Standard Rust survival is the game mode.
mp50
Max players The server has 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit This is the game's own limit of 8 per team.
v2634
Protocol Your game needs to be on the same version, protocol 2634, to get in.
cs167781
Build Build 167781 is what it runs.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$r?
Region code The region code is blank.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Facepunch's force wipe sets the day, and this server wipes once a month.

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.