mess around
Online 157.85.86.176:23760 checked 10m ago
Vital stats
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
Top 69% of all ranked servers, and #620 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
| 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.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Lists and tags
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include mess around?
You'll find mess around on the following Rust Pop Watch lists: Modded Rust servers, live. It appears under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Game mode: Softcore; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Quad.
What do the server tags on mess around mean?
For the server browser, mess around lists these tags: gmsoftcore (Game mode): An easier ruleset, softcore; mp10 (Max players): It has 10 slots; ts4 (Group limit): Each team is capped at 4; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs167781 (Build): The game build is 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.
Population
How does mess around rank against other Rust servers?
A seven-day player-hours placing of #15,318 puts mess around in the top 69% of all ranked servers. It comes in at #620 among quad servers.
How many players are on mess around right now?
The current tally at mess around: 0 players across 10 slots. Across the past week it drew an average of 0 players.
Server details
Is mess around online, and how reliable is it?
mess around is live at the moment. About 3 days 15 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 167, a 99% uptime. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 1 October 2026.
Does mess around run smoothly?
The 48-hour average was 109 server fps, with a low of 92. Entities reached a maximum of 86,228: buildings, deployables and everything else. Up to 4,430 MB of memory was used. Lag, for players, is low fps and an entity count that keeps climbing.
Where is mess around located?
There is no region from mess around. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 157.85.86.176:23760.
Which Rust version is mess around on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 167781 is the version mess around runs on Linux. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe days
What is the wipe schedule on mess around?
mess around's rhythm stays hidden while so few of its wipes are on record. A force wipe comes round every month for all Rust servers, with the next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 27 days 16 hours is when the present world was made.
Rules and settings
Which map does mess around run?
Generated by the game with seed 800000, the map on mess around is procedural and 4,000 in size. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map.
What are the rules and settings on mess around?
Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on mess around. A group can hold 4 players at most (quad). softcore is the game mode, Facepunch's easier setting, with part of your loot kept. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. It is a Modded listing: plugins or settings change how the game plays. The plugin count is Oxide. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched off.
Join up
How do I join mess around?
Enter client.connect 157.85.86.176:23760 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically.