Blind Squirrel Backlot
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 69%.
Power level
Players on it, from the Steam server list.
Every five minutes.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Tale of the tape
Against its closest rival: the most similar server we track.
Wipe receipt
66.51.99.73:28040
THANK YOU · COME AGAIN NEXT WIPE
The map
Under the hood
Asked of the server directly. Low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
The ranking
Down 164 places on last week. Top 69% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 66.51.99.73:28040
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 50
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- monthly
- Last wipe
- 8 Sep 2026, 15:53 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 1 Oct 2026
Other contenders
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Map and rules
What settings does Blind Squirrel Backlot use?
There is no gather rate in the name of Blind Squirrel Backlot. Up to 8 players per group, the standard default. It plays as survival, gather, build and raid in the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. You see it under Community in the browser: it is a community server. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What's the map on Blind Squirrel Backlot?
Blind Squirrel Backlot uses a procedural map of 4,250 that the game generates with seed 913836496. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, as the same size and seed make the same map.
Tags
How should you read the tags on Blind Squirrel Backlot?
gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp50 (Max players): Room for 50; ts8 (Group limit): The game default: 8 to a team; v2633 (Protocol): Your game version must equal protocol 2633 to get in; cs165217 (Build): Running build 165217; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's usual choice; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): The calendar is monthly: one wipe with the force wipe are the tags Blind Squirrel Backlot puts out, and the game's server browser takes them in. The tags carry its current players, its queue and its world's creation time, and this page puts them up top.
Which Boongarust filters show Blind Squirrel Backlot?
These Boongarust lists are a fit for Blind Squirrel Backlot: The busiest community servers in Rust. These filters bring it up 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.
Server info
Performance of Blind Squirrel Backlot: does it hold up?
Server fps held an average of 56 across the last 48 hours, minimum 49. The entity count reached 101,336: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Memory use peaked at 4,658 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and entities pile up.
What's the location of Blind Squirrel Backlot?
From Blind Squirrel Backlot, there is no region. What you see on Boongarust is where a server says it is, not where the machine is found to stand. Connect at 66.51.99.73:28040.
How reliable is Blind Squirrel Backlot?
Blind Squirrel Backlot is up as you read this. A restart happened about 7 days ago, based on the uptime figure. Last 6 full days: 100% uptime, with 144 hours up out of 144. The first record Boongarust has is 1 October 2026.
What Rust version is Blind Squirrel Backlot using?
Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217 on Linux: that is Blind Squirrel Backlot. You must match the protocol to join; Steam updates it automatically.
Wipe info
How often does Blind Squirrel Backlot wipe?
An estimate from the force wipe gives Blind Squirrel Backlot's next wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is next, and every Rust server wipes with it. Its world is 30 days 1 hours old. Its tags carry a monthly wipe schedule.
Population
Where does Blind Squirrel Backlot sit in the rankings?
Player hours over seven days put Blind Squirrel Backlot at #16,275, in the top 69% of all ranked servers.
What's the player count on Blind Squirrel Backlot?
Right now, 0 players are on Blind Squirrel Backlot, which has 50 slots. It pulled in 0 players on average over the past seven days.
How to join
How do you connect to Blind Squirrel Backlot?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 66.51.99.73:28040. Or click Launch Rust here, which uses Steam to open the game and join.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2633,^m,gmrust,cs165217,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.