1UP
11649servers on
Hi-score
46616players now
2UP
110fresh wipes · 3h
Player select Ready

mess around

Online 157.85.86.176:23760 checked 10m ago

quad moddedoxidesoftcore

Stats

Players
0/ 10
0% full
Slots
10open
10 max players
7-day avg
0
7-day average · peak –
FPS
113
server frames a second, the latest hour; the bar fills at 60
Uptime
3d 12h
since its last restart; the bar fills at a day
Rank
#15,338
top 69%
Last wipe · new game
27d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe · continue?
–
no wipe seen yet

Players

AveragePeak
0123409:0018:0003:0012:0022:0007:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

05010015020009:0018:0003:0012:0022:0007:00

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 Oct7 Oct12 Oct18 Oct23 Oct29 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers, and #625 of the quad servers (top 75%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Wipe schedule

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers 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.

Similar servers

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[EA] Softcore 1
quad · monthly · 67 on average
73 / 350
[US] Facepunch Softcore 2
NA · quad · monthly · 59 on average
17 / 300
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Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Settings and map

Which map is loaded on mess around?

The game generates a procedural map for mess around: size 4,000, seed 800000. Same size, same seed, same map, viewable on RustMaps from this page.

What are the rules and settings on mess around?

mess around says nothing in its name about a gather rate. The group cap is 4 players (quad). softcore is the mode, Facepunch's gentler mode, with some loot retained. Players may raid and fight each other. The server browser lists it as Modded: plugins or settings alter the game. It runs plugins: Oxide. VAC is off, Valve's anti-cheat.

Wipe schedule

What is the wipe schedule on mess around?

The record of mess around's wipes is too thin yet to tell its rhythm. Every Rust server takes the force wipe each month; Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the date of the next. 27 days 13 hours is how long the current world has been up.

Tag guide

What do the server tags on mess around mean?

The server browser reads these tags from mess around: gmsoftcore (Game mode): This is softcore, with easier rules; mp10 (Max players): Slot count: 10; ts4 (Group limit): The team size limit is 4; v2635 (Protocol): Join only if your game is on protocol 2635; cs167781 (Build): It runs game build 167781; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the default network layer of the game; $r? (Region code): The region code is blank; ^o (Oxide): This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings make changes, so it sits under Modded. The top of this page also shows the live player count, the queue and when the world was made, all from the tags.

Which Rust Leaderboard lists and filters include mess around?

These Rust Leaderboard lists count mess around among them: Best modded Rust servers. These filters on the server list bring it up: Type: Modded; Game mode: Softcore; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Quad.

Server facts

Which Rust version is mess around running?

The build behind mess around: Rust network protocol 2635 and build 167781 on Linux. Steam updates your game so it sits on the same protocol needed to join.

Is mess around online right now, and how steady has it been?

mess around is up, live and reachable this moment. The uptime figure puts the last restart at roughly 3 days 12 hours ago. Of the 168 hours in the last 7 full days it was up for 167, or 99%. The first record Rust Leaderboard has of it is 1 October 2026.

How well does mess around perform?

Averaged over the last 48 hours, server fps was 109, with a low of 92. At its peak the world carried 86,228 entities: buildings, deployables and the rest. The top memory figure was 4,430 MB. What reads as lag to players: fps falling and entities piling up.

Where in the world is mess around hosted?

No region is published by mess around. A server's stated location is what Rust Leaderboard shows; it does not look up where the machine actually stands. 157.85.86.176:23760 is its address.

Population

Where does mess around sit in the rankings?

Player hours for the week place mess around at #15,338, in the top 69% of every ranked server. In the quad group it takes #625.

How many players are on mess around right now?

On mess around, 0 players are in and 10 slots are on the board. Its average over the past week is 0 players.

Getting in

How do I join mess around?

Type client.connect 157.85.86.176:23760 into the console after pressing F1 in Rust. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same via Steam.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmsoftcore,cs167781,ts4,^o^z

Game

gmsoftcore
Game mode This is softcore, with easier rules.
mp10
Max players Slot count: 10.
ts4
Group limit The team size limit is 4.
v2635
Protocol Join only if your game is on protocol 2635.
cs167781
Build It runs game build 167781.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the default network layer of the game.
$r?
Region code The region code is blank.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide This server uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins.
^z
Modded Plugins or settings make changes, so it sits under Modded.

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.