Fooling Around
Key statistics
the figures behind the quote- Players now
- 1/ 10 10% full
- Change · 24h
- ▪+0 +0.0% from 1
- 7-day average
- 0 peak 1
- Rank
- #4,963 top 22%
- Rank · 7d ago
- #4,555 ▼408 places down
- Last wipe
- 9d ago monthly schedule
- Next wipe
- 22d 18h Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
- Group limit
- quad players per team
- Gather rate
- – no rate in the name
- Score
- 53 player hours, last seven days
- Map
- – Procedural Map
- First seen
- 20 Sep 2026 no hostname published
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC. Busiest hour of the two days: 1 players.
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 bestTop 22% of all ranked servers, and #307 of the quad servers (top 37%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
force wipes only- usual gap
- 5.6 days between real wipes
- on rhythm
- 0% of its recent wipes
- wipe-day peak
- 1 players, last three wipes
- crowd held
- 100% of its cycles kept half the crowd
Coming wipes
- 22d 18hThu 5 Nov, 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 UTC9d ago | 2 | – | running | 1 |
| Fri 2 Oct, 01:26 UTC11d ago | 1 | held half | 2 days | 1 |
| Tue 22 Sep, 21:46 UTC21d 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.
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 | Noobs 4 Real | No Pros, No Sweats, Just Noobs, Solo/Duo!EU · quad · monthly · 1 on average | 0/100 | ▪+0 | |
| 2 | [EA] Softcore 1quad · monthly · 123 on average | 27/350 | ▼−16−37.1% | |
| 3 | [EU] Facepunch Softcore 1EU · quad · monthly · 102 on average | 42/400 | ▲+5+13.5% | |
| 4 | Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU SoftcoreOC · quad · monthly · 59 on average | 33/150 | ▼−4−9.6% | |
| 5 | LA ISLA DEL ABUELO / NOOB FRIENDLY / LATAM - ESP / SPANISH ONLYNA · quad · monthly · 31 on average | 8/200 | ▼−32−80.0% | |
| 6 | [RU] Friendly Rust – Vanilla Softcore | 2x2 РусскийEU · quad · monthly · 14 on average | 8/100 | ▲+4+100.0% |
Quick answers
from the figures on this pageRules & Settings
What settings and rules are in place on Fooling Around?
No gather rate appears in the name of Fooling Around. The group limit is 4 players, set via quad. softcore is the mode, Facepunch's easier mode: you keep part of your loot. You can fight and raid other players. Modded is its category in the server browser; plugins or settings modify the game. Plugin count: Oxide. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is enabled.
Which map is played on Fooling Around?
The game generates the procedural map on Fooling Around.
Population
Where does Fooling Around sit in the rankings?
For the last seven days, Fooling Around holds rank #4,963 on player hours, in the top 22% of all ranked servers. In the quad group, it ranks #307.
How many players does Fooling Around have?
1 of 10 slots on Fooling Around are filled right now. The seven-day average is 0 players, with a peak of 1. At 01:00 UTC in the last 48 hours, it averaged 1 players, the busiest hour.
Wipe Cycle
What can you expect on wipe day for Fooling Around?
An average of 1 players marked the busiest point of its recent wipes. On the latest wipe, 17 hours after the wipe, the crowd peaked. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 100% of recent wipes.
When does Fooling Around schedule its wipes?
Once a month, at the force wipe, Fooling Around wipes. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes at that time. Its world now is 9 days 22 hours old. The tags state monthly wipes.
Server Details
What is the location of Fooling Around?
For Fooling Around, no region is published. Rust Analytics reports the location a server claims, not the machine's actual location. You can reach it at 76.16.72.212:28115.
Fooling Around runs which version of Rust?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781 on Windows is what Fooling Around runs. Joining requires the same protocol on your game, which Steam updates.
How reliable is Fooling Around and is it currently online?
Online at this moment: Fooling Around. The last 7 full days give 62% uptime, 104 hours on out of 168. The earliest Rust Analytics saw it was 20 September 2026.
Server Tags
How should you interpret the tags on Fooling Around?
Published by Fooling Around for the game's server browser to read: gmsoftcore (Game mode): Softcore rules, which are gentler; mp10 (Max players): Capacity: 10 slots; ts4 (Group limit): Teams take no more than 4; v2634 (Protocol): Your game must run protocol 2634 to connect; cs167781 (Build): Game build: 167781; ptrak (Networking): The standard network layer, RakNet; $r? (Region code): The region code is absent; ^m (Monthly): Facepunch's force wipe sets the schedule: one wipe a month; ^s (Softcore): Facepunch's softcore mode returns part of your inventory after death; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework Oxide (uMod) is in use; ^z (Modded): The Modded listing applies: plugins or settings change play. The top of this page and the tags both show its players now, its queue and when its world was made.
On Rust Analytics, which lists and filters feature Fooling Around?
On Rust Analytics, Fooling Around matches these lists: Modded Rust servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Game mode: Softcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Softcore ^s, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
Connection
What steps do I take to join Fooling Around?
The console route: start Rust, press F1, enter client.connect 76.16.72.212:28115. The page's Launch Rust button opens Rust through Steam and connects you instead.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished as mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,^s,gmsoftcore,cs167781,ts4,^o^z
Game
gmsoftcore
mp10
ts4
v2634
cs167781
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Difficulty
^s
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.