Element card · group Modded · atomic number 4,830, its rank
Fooling Around
Online 76.16.72.212:28115 checked 10m 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
daily · 1 is best
Top 22% of all ranked servers, and #305 of the quad servers (top 37%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 20h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 7d 20hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 35d 20hThu 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
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 4 Oct, 02:13 UTC24d ago | 2 | – | running | 1 |
| Fri 2 Oct, 01:26 UTC26d ago | 1 | held half | 2 days | 1 |
| Tue 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.
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from the figures on this pageServer setup
What map is in play on Fooling Around?
A procedural map runs on Fooling Around, generated by the game.
What rules has Fooling Around set, and what settings are in force?
Nothing in the name of Fooling Around gives a gather rate. The group cap is 4 players (quad). softcore is the game mode, The lighter of the game's two modes: 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. Oxide plugins are running on it. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is enabled.
About the server
What region hosts Fooling Around?
Nothing about a region is published by Fooling Around. What a server states is what Rust Data Lab shows for location; no lookup of the machine's whereabouts is made. 76.16.72.212:28115 is the address it uses.
On what Rust version does Fooling Around operate?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what Fooling Around uses. Your game needs to match the protocol to join, and Steam updates it automatically.
How reliably does Fooling Around stay online?
Fooling Around is live as of now. For the last 7 full days, 129 of 168 hours were online, giving 77% uptime. On 20 September 2026, Rust Data Lab saw it for the first time.
Wipe days
How often does a wipe happen on Fooling Around, and at what time?
The only wipe on Fooling Around is the monthly force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, this server wipes again: that is the force wipe that resets all Rust servers. 24 days 20 hours ago the current world was made. Wipes monthly, according to the schedule in its tags.
What does a typical wipe day on Fooling Around involve?
At their busiest, recent wipes averaged 1 players. 17 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that held in 100% of its recent wipes.
Lists and tags
What should you understand from the tags Fooling Around carries?
These are the tags Fooling Around makes public for the server browser to read: gmsoftcore (Game mode): An easier ruleset, softcore; mp10 (Max players): Player slots: 10; ts4 (Group limit): The team limit is 4; v2635 (Protocol): Protocol 2635 is required; join only if your game matches it; cs168909 (Build): It runs build 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, tied to Facepunch's force wipe; ^s (Softcore): This is Facepunch's softcore, where you keep some of your inventory on death; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework in use is Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Because plugins or settings change the game, it is filed 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.
Where among the Rust Data Lab lists and filters does Fooling Around come up?
These themed Rust Data Lab lists carry Fooling Around: Modded Rust servers, measured. Applying these filters on the server list returns it: Type: Modded; Game mode: Softcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Softcore ^s, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
Player counts
How does Fooling Around compare with other servers in the rankings?
The seven-day player-hours table has Fooling Around at #4,830, in the top 22% of ranked servers. In the quad category it ranks #305.
How full is Fooling Around right now?
At the moment Fooling Around has 0 of its 10 slots filled. The week's figures average 0 players and top out at 2. The busiest point in the last 48 hours came at 01:00 UTC, averaging 1 players.
Getting on
What is the way to join Fooling Around?
In Rust, press F1 and enter client.connect 76.16.72.212:28115. Or click Launch Rust here to open Rust via Steam and connect automatically.