Fooling Around
Online 76.16.72.212:28115 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. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 21% of all ranked servers, and #294 of the quad servers (top 36%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 6h. The force wipe · high confidence
- usual gap
- 5.6 daysbetween real wipes
- on rhythm
- 0%of its recent wipes
- wipe-day peak
- 1players, last three wipes
- crowd held
- 100%of its cycles kept half the crowd
Coming wipes
- in 7d 6hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- in 35d 6hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 17 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
4 OCT 2026Sun 4 Oct, 02:13 UTC25d ago |
2 | – | running | 1 |
2 OCT 2026Fri 2 Oct, 01:26 UTC27d ago |
1 | held half | 2 days | 1 |
22 SEP 2026Tue 22 Sep, 21:46 UTC36d ago |
1 | held half | 9.2 days | 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.
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
What settings and rules does Fooling Around run?
You will find no gather rate in the name of Fooling Around. The group limit is 4 players, as stated (quad). Filed under softcore, An easier mode from Facepunch, with part of your loot kept. Combat and raiding between players are possible. The server browser lists it under Modded; plugins or settings alter the game. Plugins in use: Oxide. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
What is the map on Fooling Around?
A procedural map, generated by the game, is what Fooling Around runs.
Tags and filters
Which lists and filters on Rust Server Index is Fooling Around filed under?
Filed under these Rust Server Index lists is Fooling 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: Monthly ^m, Softcore ^s, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
What is meant by the tags on Fooling Around?
These are the tags Fooling Around publishes; the game's server browser reads this list: gmsoftcore (Game mode): An easier ruleset, softcore; mp10 (Max players): The queue ceiling sits at 10; ts4 (Group limit): 4 is the largest team allowed; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; older or newer clients cannot join; cs168909 (Build): It runs build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, as standard for Rust; $r? (Region code): A region code is absent; ^m (Monthly): The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside the Facepunch force wipe; ^s (Softcore): Under softcore rules you keep some of your inventory on death; ^o (Oxide): Plugins run through Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Plugins or changed settings put this under Modded. See also the top of this page, where the tags carry the current players, the queue and the time the world was made.
Wipes and resets
How does a wipe day run on Fooling Around?
The average peak across its recent wipes is 1 players. The latest wipe peaked 17 hours in. Half that peak was held until the next wipe in 100% of its recent wipes.
How often is Fooling Around wiped, and on what schedule?
The only wipe on Fooling Around is the monthly force wipe. Its next wipe falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, as the force wipe that reaches every Rust server. The world it runs now was made 25 days 10 hours. Its tags state a wipe schedule of once a month.
Players and ranking
How is Fooling Around ranked compared with the rest?
The seven-day player-hours ranking places Fooling Around at #4,716, among the top 21% of ranked servers. #294 is where it sits in the quad servers.
Is Fooling Around quiet or crowded?
Fooling Around is currently showing 0 players on 10 slots. The seven-day average is 0 players; the peak reached 2. Filed under busiest hour: 17:00 UTC in the last 48 hours, averaging 1 players.
Operator and status
What Rust version is Fooling Around on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what you will find on Fooling Around. To join you need the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
What is the uptime and current status of Fooling Around?
The server is live at this moment: Fooling Around. Uptime for the last 7 full days came to 85%, 142 hours out of 168. The earliest sighting at Rust Server Index is 20 September 2026.
What is the location of Fooling Around?
No region is published by Fooling Around. No lookup of the machine's position is made by Rust Server Index; it shows where the server says it is. Connection details: 76.16.72.212:28115.
How to join
What is the way onto Fooling Around?
Enter client.connect 76.16.72.212:28115 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,^m,^s,gmsoftcore,cs168909,ts4,^o^z
Game
gmsoftcore
mp10
ts4
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Difficulty
^s
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.