mess around
Online 157.85.86.176:23760 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 69% of all ranked servers, and #621 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
| 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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Map and rules
Where can you read the rules and settings that apply on mess around?
No gather rate appears in the name mess around. The group limit is 4 players, as stated (quad). Filed under softcore, An easier mode from Facepunch, with part of your loot kept. Fighting and raiding other players is permitted. The server browser lists it under Modded; plugins or settings alter the game. Oxide plugins are run on it. The server has VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, turned off.
What is the map on mess around?
Generated by the game, the procedural map of mess around has size 4,000 and seed 800000. From this page you can view the map on RustMaps; the same size and seed give the same map.
Tags and filters
Which lists and filters on Rust Server Index is mess around filed under?
These lists on Rust Server Index take mess around: Modded Rust servers, filed by play style. It appears under the following filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Game mode: Softcore; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Quad.
Which tags are attached to mess around, and what do they stand for?
The server's own tags are listed here, and the game's server browser reads them: mess around gives gmsoftcore (Game mode): Softcore: the easier mode; mp10 (Max players): Player cap: 10; ts4 (Group limit): Groups are capped at 4; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; older or newer clients cannot join; cs168909 (Build): Build on file: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The standard RakNet layer carries the connection; $r? (Region code): The region code field is left empty; ^o (Oxide): Oxide, also known as uMod, provides the plugin framework; ^z (Modded): Plugins or changed settings put this under Modded. The top of this page shows three items from the tags: players at present, queue and world creation time.
Wipe schedule
How often is mess around wiped, and on what schedule?
mess around's rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of its wipes are on record. The monthly force wipe reaches every Rust server, and the next one falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Its present world dates from 28 days 7 hours.
Population
Where does mess around sit in the rankings?
The seven-day player-hours ranking places mess around at #15,264, among the top 69% of ranked servers. See also the quad servers, where it stands at #621.
What does the player count on mess around look like?
Filed under live counts: mess around, 0 players on 10 slots at present. Filed under seven-day average: 0 players.
Server details
What version does mess around use?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909, on Linux, is what mess around runs. To join you need the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
What is the uptime and current status of mess around?
Right now mess around is up and running. About 11 hours ago, by its own uptime figure, is when it last restarted. Of the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were up, 99% of the time. On 1 October 2026 it was first seen by Rust Server Index.
How well does mess around perform?
The last 48 hours give an average of 108 server fps and a floor of 92. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world came to as many as 86,366 entities. Up to 4,430 MB of memory was in use. Lag, to players, is low fps and an entity count that climbs.
Where in the world is mess around hosted?
No region is published by mess around. No lookup of the machine's position is made by Rust Server Index; it shows where the server says it is. Connection details: 157.85.86.176:23760.
Connecting
What is the way onto mess around?
Enter client.connect 157.85.86.176:23760 in the console, opened with F1. Or join on this page with Launch Rust, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
Server tags
What each one means.
Published as mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmsoftcore,cs168909,ts4,^o^z
Game
gmsoftcore
mp10
ts4
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
Mods and access
^o
^z
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.