Online 157.85.86.176:23760 checked 8m ago
mess around
By the numbersMatch stats
against its 10 slotsThe story of the match
Players, performance and rank, hour by hour and day by day.
CrowdPlayers
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
FitnessServer 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.
FormRank
daily · 1 is bestTop 69% of all ranked servers, and #620 of the quad servers (top 75%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
FixturesWipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
ResultsWipes
newest first| 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.
Operator and location
Is mess around online, and how reliable is it?
Right now mess around is online. About 3 days 16 hours ago is when it restarted, judging by its reported uptime. 167 of 168 hours were up over the last 7 full days, 99% of the time. Rust Player Stats logged it for the first time on 1 October 2026.
Does mess around run smoothly?
109 server fps on average over 48 hours, and never under 92. Its entity count reached 86,228: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. The memory ceiling was 4,430 MB. What players feel as lag is low fps paired with an entity count on the rise.
Which Rust version is mess around on?
On Linux, mess around runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 167781. Steam updates your game for you, but the protocol has to match to join.
Where is mess around located?
Nothing on mess around states a region. Rust Player Stats takes the server's word on where it is and does not look up the machine's real location. 157.85.86.176:23760 is the address.
Server tags
What do the server tags on mess around mean?
gmsoftcore (Game mode): The mode is softcore, easier rules; mp10 (Max players): Slot count: 10; ts4 (Group limit): The team limit is 4; v2635 (Protocol): Your game must be on protocol 2635 to get in; cs167781 (Build): Build number: 167781; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard one; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework is Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): The game changes here through plugins or settings, so it's listed under Modded are the tags mess around publishes, and the game's server browser reads them. The tags carry more besides: present players, queue length and when the world was made, all displayed at the top of this page.
Which Rust Player Stats lists and filters include mess around?
These Rust Player Stats lists take mess around: Modded Rust servers, live. These filters on the server list bring it up: Type: Modded; Game mode: Softcore; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Quad.
Map and rules
Which map is running on mess around?
mess around runs a game-generated procedural map: size 4,000, seed 800000. Same size, same seed, same map, so RustMaps shows it from this page.
What are the rules and settings on mess around?
No gather rate appears in the name of mess around. quad: groups top out at 4 players. softcore, On Facepunch's easier mode, part of your loot stays with you. PvP is on, and so is raiding. Plugins or settings change the game, so the server browser lists it as Modded. Plugins in use: Oxide. Anti-cheat is off: VAC.
Population
What is the population on mess around at the moment?
The board shows mess around at 0 players, with 10 slots in total. The seven-day average for this server is 0 players.
Where does mess around sit in the rankings?
Ranked #15,318 on seven-day player hours, mess around is in the top 69% of all ranked servers. The quad table places it at #620.
Wipe schedule
What is the wipe schedule on mess around?
The record holds too few of mess around's wipes to tell its rhythm. The monthly force wipe hits every Rust server, and the next one is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 27 days 17 hours ago is when its current world was made.
Connect
How do I join mess around?
Press F1 in Rust, bring up the console and enter client.connect 157.85.86.176:23760. The Launch Rust button here does the same, opening Rust via Steam and connecting you.
GlossaryServer tags
what each one meansPublished as mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2635,gmsoftcore,cs167781,ts4,^o^z
Game
gmsoftcore
mp10
ts4
v2635
cs167781
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.