Element card · group Modded · atomic number 15,326, its rank
mess around
Online 157.85.86.176:23760 checked 9m 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
daily · 1 is best
Top 69% of all ranked servers, and #619 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| 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 wipesQuick answers
from the figures on this pageMap and rules
What map is in play on mess around?
The map on mess around is procedural at size 4,000 with seed 800000, made by the game. The map repeats when size and seed match, and you can view it on RustMaps from this page.
How is mess around configured, and what rules apply?
Nothing in the name of mess around gives a gather rate. A group can hold 4 players at most (quad). softcore is the game mode, You keep some of what you collect, which makes this the easier mode. You can fight other players and raid them. The server browser lists it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. The plugin count is Oxide. VAC is off, Valve's anti-cheat.
Server details
What region hosts mess around?
No region is published by mess around. What a server states is what Rust Data Lab shows for location; no lookup of the machine's whereabouts is made. Connect at 157.85.86.176:23760.
On what Rust version does mess around operate?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 167781 on Linux is what mess around uses. The protocol must match for you to join; Steam will update your game.
How reliably does mess around stay online?
mess around is live as of now. About 3 days 17 hours ago is when it last restarted, based on its uptime. It was online for 167 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, which is 99% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Data Lab was on 1 October 2026.
Does mess around hold a steady performance?
Server fps averaged 109 over the last 48 hours, with 92 as the lowest. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to as many as 86,228 entities. Memory use peaked at 4,430 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Wipes and resets
What is the wiping pattern on mess around?
The record holds too few of mess around's wipes to show its rhythm. The monthly force wipe resets every Rust server; it next occurs on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Counting back, the current world began 27 days 18 hours ago.
Lists and tags
Which meanings sit behind the tags on mess around?
The game's server browser reads the tags mess around publishes, which are gmsoftcore (Game mode): An easier ruleset, softcore; mp10 (Max players): 10 is the slot count; ts4 (Group limit): No team may exceed 4; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs167781 (Build): The game build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the standard layer; $r? (Region code): The region field is left blank; ^o (Oxide): Plugins run through Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it lists under Modded. The tags carry more as well: current players, the queue and when the world was made, all shown at the top of this page.
Which Rust Data Lab filters and lists does mess around appear in?
The Rust Data Lab lists that include mess around are: Modded Rust servers, measured. Applying these filters on the server list returns it: Type: Modded; Game mode: Softcore; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Quad.
Player numbers
How does mess around compare with other servers in the rankings?
The seven-day player-hours table has mess around at #15,326, in the top 69% of ranked servers. Within quad, its rank is #619.
How full is mess around right now?
Of 10 slots, 0 are taken on mess around right now. The seven-day average for this server is 0 players.
How to join
What steps get you onto mess around?
Open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 157.85.86.176:23760. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same job through Steam.