mess around
Key statistics
the figures behind the quote- Players now
- 0/ 10 0% full
- Change · 24h
- ▪n/a no reading a day ago
- 7-day average
- 0 peak 2
- Rank
- #8,080 top 36%
- Rank · 7d ago
- #10,818 ▲2738 places up
- Last wipe
- 12d ago no schedule published
- Next wipe
- – no wipe seen yet
- Group limit
- quad players per team
- Gather rate
- – no rate in the name
- Score
- 11 player hours, last seven days
- Map
- 4000 Procedural Map · seed 800000
- First seen
- 1 Oct 2026 no hostname published
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 bestTop 36% of all ranked servers, and #445 of the quad servers (top 54%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
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 wipes| # | Server | Last | Chg 24h | Players over the last 24 hours24h |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Asgard 2服 中国|官方|二倍|软核新手服 10.10更EA · quad · biweekly · 2 on average | 2/233 | ▼−1−25.0% | |
| 2 | Noobs 4 Real | No Pros, No Sweats, Just Noobs, Solo/Duo!EU · quad · monthly · 1 on average | 3/100 | ▲+1+56.5% | |
| 3 | [RU] Seven Rust [Solo] Для НовичковEU · quad · monthly · 1 on average | 3/200 | ▲+2+100.0% | |
| 4 | [EA] Softcore 1quad · monthly · 116 on average | 120/350 | ▲+10+9.1% | |
| 5 | [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1EU · quad · monthly · 99 on average | 122/400 | ▼−61−33.5% | |
| 6 | Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU SoftcoreOC · quad · monthly · 58 on average | 46/150 | ▲+11+31.1% |
Quick answers
from the figures on this pageServer Rules
What settings and rules are in place on mess around?
No gather rate appears in the name of mess around. A maximum of 4 players per group is set through quad. softcore is the mode, Facepunch's easier mode: you keep part of your loot. You can fight and raid other players. The server browser lists it as Modded: plugins or settings change the game. Oxide plugins are in use. VAC is not active.
Which map is played on mess around?
mess around uses a procedural map of size 4,000 with seed 800000, generated by the game. You can see the map on RustMaps from this page, as the same size and seed give the same map.
Player Count
What is the rank of mess around?
For the last seven days, mess around holds rank #8,080 on player hours, in the top 36% of all ranked servers. In the quad group, it ranks #445.
What is the population on mess around?
At present, mess around is offline; the last sighting was 27 hours ago. The seven-day average is 0 players, with a peak of 2.
Wipe Frequency
When does mess around schedule its wipes?
The record holds too few of mess around's wipes to establish its rhythm. At the monthly force wipe, every Rust server wipes. That happens next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. This world has been running for 12 days 20 hours.
Server Details
What is the location of mess around?
No region is published by mess around. Rust Analytics reports the location a server claims, not the machine's actual location. You can reach it at 157.85.86.176:23760.
How is the performance on mess around?
Average server fps for the last 48 hours is 4; the floor was 4. At its peak it held 139,639 entities: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Up to 4,525 MB of memory was used. What players feel as lag is low fps together with a rising entity count.
mess around runs which version of Rust?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494 on Linux is what mess around runs. Joining requires the same protocol on your game, which Steam updates.
Is mess around up, and how consistent is its uptime?
mess around is down. The last time we saw it was 27 hours ago. Its own uptime figure dates the last restart to roughly 11 days 16 hours ago. The last 7 full days give 93% uptime, 157 hours on out of 168. The earliest Rust Analytics saw it was 1 October 2026.
Tags & Filters
What is the meaning of the tags on mess around?
The game's server browser reads gmsoftcore (Game mode): Softcore rules, which are gentler; mp10 (Max players): Slot count: 10; ts4 (Group limit): 4 is the maximum team size; v2634 (Protocol): Your game must run protocol 2634 to connect; cs166494 (Build): Game build: 166494; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) is in use; ^z (Modded): Categorised as Modded: plugins or settings alter gameplay, which mess around publishes. The top of this page and the tags both show its players now, its queue and when its world was made.
mess around appears in which of the lists and filters on Rust Analytics?
These Rust Analytics lists include mess around: Modded Rust servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Game mode: Softcore; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Quad; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Joining the Server
How can I connect to mess around?
Type client.connect 157.85.86.176:23760 after pressing F1 in Rust to open the console. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished as mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmsoftcore,cs166494,ts4,^o^z
Game
gmsoftcore
mp10
ts4
v2634
cs166494
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.