Element card · group Modded · atomic number 13,881, its rank
mess around
Offline 157.85.93.192:20382 checked 27d 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 27 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
daily · 1 is best
Top 60% of all ranked servers, and #586 of the quad servers (top 69%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
too few wipes seen yetNot enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 3 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thu 1 Oct, 15:13 UTC27d ago | 2 | – | running | 0 |
| Sun 27 Sep, 21:40 UTC31d ago | 3 | halved by day 1 | 3.7 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 wipesQuick answers
from the figures on this pageServer setup
What map is in play on mess around?
A procedural map of size 4,000 with seed 800000 runs on mess around, generated by the game. Same size and seed give the same map, so this page lets you look at it on RustMaps.
What rules has mess around set, and what settings are in force?
No gather rate appears in the name of mess around. You get up to 4 players per group (quad). softcore is the game mode, Facepunch's softer mode: part of your loot stays with you. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. Plugins or settings change the game, so the browser lists it under Modded. Plugins in use: Oxide. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is disabled.
Server details
What region hosts mess around?
No region is published by mess around. Rust Data Lab shows a server's stated location, not a verified position of the machine. 157.85.93.192:20382 is the address it uses.
What Rust version does mess around currently run?
On Linux, mess around is running Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.
How dependable is mess around for staying online?
Right now mess around is offline, with its last appearance 27 days 10 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, giving 0% uptime. On 27 September 2026, Rust Data Lab saw it for the first time.
Wipes and resets
How often does a wipe happen on mess around, and at what time?
mess around's wipe history on record is too thin yet to tell its rhythm. The next monthly force wipe, which wipes all Rust servers, is scheduled for Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The world it is running now dates from 27 days 14 hours ago.
How does mess around look on the day of a wipe?
At their busiest, recent wipes averaged 2 players. Peak numbers on the latest wipe came 3 hours in. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. The crowd fell below half by day 1 when it didn't hold.
Lists and tags
Which meanings sit behind the tags on mess around?
gmsoftcore (Game mode): An easier ruleset, softcore; mp10 (Max players): Player slots: 10; ts4 (Group limit): No team may exceed 4; v2633 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2633, so your game needs the same version; cs165217 (Build): It runs build 165217; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the standard layer; $r? (Region code): A region code has not been set here; ^o (Oxide): Plugins run through Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Because plugins or settings change the game, it is filed under Modded: that is the tag list mess around publishes, and the game's server browser reads it. The tags carry more as well: current players, the queue and when the world was made, all shown at the top of this page.
Where among the Rust Data Lab lists and filters does mess around come up?
These themed Rust Data Lab lists carry mess around: Modded Rust servers, measured. You can find it on the server list by applying these filters: Type: Modded; Game mode: Softcore; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Quad.
Player counts
How does mess around compare with other servers in the rankings?
Player hours over the last week put mess around at #13,881, inside the top 60% of ranked servers. Within quad, its rank is #586.
What does the current player count on mess around tell you?
mess around is offline at the moment; the last sighting was 27 days 10 hours ago.
Getting on
How can you connect to mess around?
You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and entering client.connect 157.85.93.192:20382, or by pressing Launch Rust here, which starts the game through Steam and joins for you.