mess around
157.85.86.176:23760 checked 1d 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, 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
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
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.
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Quick answers
Rules and settings
What is the setup on mess around when it comes to rules and settings?
There is no gather rate in the name mess around. A group can hold 4 players at most (quad). softcore is the game mode, Facepunch's easier mode: you keep part of your loot. You can fight and raid other players here. Plugins or settings change the game, and it is listed under Modded in the server browser. Oxide plugins are running on it. VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, is switched off.
What is the map on mess around?
A procedural map, size 4,000 with seed 800000, generated by the game, is what mess around runs. From this page, RustMaps can show it: size and seed produce the same map each time.
Population
How full is mess around?
Last seen 28 hours ago, mess around is offline at the moment. Averaging 0 players over seven days, it peaked at 2.
What is mess around's ranking?
In the top 36% of ranked servers, mess around holds #8,080 for player hours over the last seven days. In the quad category, it ranks #445.
Lists and tags
What is the meaning of the tags on mess around?
The game's server browser reads these tags from mess around: gmsoftcore (Game mode): Softcore rules apply—easier than standard; mp10 (Max players): Capacity: 10; ts4 (Group limit): Each team can have up to 4 players; v2634 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2634; cs166494 (Build): The game build is 166494; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is standard; $r? (Region code): Region code left unset; ^o (Oxide): Plugins run through Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Modded category: the game is altered by plugins or settings. Also in the tags: its players now, its queue and the time its world was made, and the top of this page shows them.
Which Rust Zerg Life filters and lists cover mess around?
These Rust Zerg Life lists include mess around: Modded Rust servers for clans and zergs. 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.
Server info
How reliable is mess around, and is it up?
No sign of mess around at present: it was last seen 28 hours ago. It reports an uptime that puts the last restart at roughly 11 days 16 hours ago. It was up 93% of the time across the last 7 full days: 157 of 168 hours. The first time Rust Zerg Life saw it was on 1 October 2026.
What is the performance like on mess around?
Over the past 48 hours, server fps averaged 4 and never dropped below 4. It reached a maximum of 139,639 entities, covering buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. At its highest, memory usage hit 4,525 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is caused by low fps and an increasing number of entities.
What Rust version is mess around on?
The server mess around runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494 with Linux as its operating system. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol, which Steam updates automatically.
Where can you find mess around?
From mess around, no region is published. Rust Zerg Life displays the location a server claims, not where the machine actually stands. Connect to it at 157.85.86.176:23760.
Wipe days
How often does mess around wipe, and on what days?
So few of mess around's wipes are recorded that its rhythm cannot be told yet. Next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC: the monthly force wipe that every Rust server gets. 12 days 21 hours ago is when its present world was created.
Join the server
How can I connect to mess around?
Enter client.connect 157.85.86.176:23760 in the F1 console. Another way: use Launch Rust on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
Server tags
Published 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.