mess around
Offline 157.85.93.192:20382 checked 27d 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 27 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
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
Not 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
| 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 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. These filters bring it up 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?
These are the tags mess around publishes for the browser: gmsoftcore (Game mode): Softcore rules make it easier; mp10 (Max players): Slots: 10; ts4 (Group limit): Teams cap at 4 players; v2633 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2633; cs165217 (Build): The game build is 165217; 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.
Player counts
How does mess around rank against other Rust servers?
The last seven days of player hours place mess around at #13,881, in the top 60% of all ranked servers. Within the quad category, it sits at #586.
How many players are on mess around right now?
mess around went quiet 27 days 17 hours ago and is offline at the moment.
Server facts
Is mess around online, and how reliable is it?
mess around shows as offline, last spotted 27 days 17 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 0, a 0% uptime. It came to Rust Pop Watch's attention on 27 September 2026.
Where is mess around located?
No region is published by mess around. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 157.85.93.192:20382.
Which Rust version is mess around on?
Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217 is the version mess around runs on Linux. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.
Wipe times
What happens on mess around when wipe day comes around?
The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 2 players. The crowd on the latest wipe topped out 3 hours in. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that happened in 0% of its recent wipes. In the wipes that didn't hold, the crowd sank below half by day 1.
What is the wipe schedule on mess around?
The record of mess around's wipes is still too thin to show its rhythm. A force wipe comes round every month for all Rust servers, with the next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Its current world has been live for 27 days 21 hours.
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. The cap on groups is 4 players (quad). Facepunch's easier setting, with part of your loot kept: that is the softcore mode. 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. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is off.
Join up
How do I join mess around?
Enter client.connect 157.85.93.192:20382 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically.