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The count
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Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
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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.
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Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Coming up · wipe schedule
force wipes only
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 18h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.
The current map
Monday 19 October 2026, 11:34 UTC
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.
Recent wipes on this server averaged a peak of 0 players at their busiest. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak.
Nothing wipes Blind Squirrel Backlot but the force wipe, once a month. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. The world you are playing on was built 9 days 12 hours. Its tags give wipes as monthly.
On Rust Live Stats, Blind Squirrel Backlot is listed under Live Rust community servers. These filters on the server list bring it up: 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.
These are the tags Blind Squirrel Backlot makes public: gmrust (Game mode): Survival here follows standard Rust; mp50 (Max players): 50 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): Team cap: 8, which is the game default; v2634 (Protocol): You need protocol 2634 on your game to get in; cs167781 (Build): This server runs game build 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer — the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): The server sets no region code; ^m (Monthly): It wipes with Facepunch's force wipe, once each month. Also in the tags: players on now, the queue, and when the world was made. You will find them at the top of this page.
Blind Squirrel Backlot is carrying 0 players at the moment, with 50 slots in total. The seven-day average for this server is 0 players.
Ranked by seven-day player hours, Blind Squirrel Backlot is #15,349, placing it in the top 69% of ranked servers.
No gather rate appears in the name Blind Squirrel Backlot. No custom limit is set, so groups hold the default 8 players. survival is the mode, with the standard game: gather, build, raid. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. You find it under Community in the server browser. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
A procedural map of 4,250 with seed 913836496, generated by the game, runs on Blind Squirrel Backlot. Same size, same seed, same map: RustMaps has it, reachable from this page.
No region is published by Blind Squirrel Backlot. The location shown on Rust Live Stats is the one a server gives, not a lookup of the machine's position. 66.51.99.73:28040 is its address.
Server fps averaged 5 over the last 48 hours, with a low of 5. It supported up to 102,716 entities, covering buildings, deployables and all other objects. Up to 4,146 MB of memory was used. Lag, as players feel it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 on Linux is what Blind Squirrel Backlot runs. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
Right now Blind Squirrel Backlot is online. About 6 days 9 hours ago is when it last restarted, according to its uptime. It was online for 144 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, or 86% of the time. The first sighting by Rust Live Stats was on 1 October 2026.
Enter client.connect 66.51.99.73:28040 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
