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IR live Players31,668 Servers11,619 Warm2,750 Fresh wipes · 3h74 Frameevery 5 min
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mess around

Offline 157.85.93.192:20382 checked 27d ago

quad moddedoxidesoftcore
Sp1 · players now 1/ 10
10% full
Li1 · players, the last 48 hours · hourly average, UTC
No hourly readings in the last 48 hours
0
7-day average
peak –
#13,881
rank
top 60%
27d ago
last wipe
no schedule published
–
next wipe
too few wipes seen yet
UTC checked 27d ago

Li2Players

No hourly history yet.

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Li3Server performance

This server has not answered a direct query in the last 48 hours.

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.

Li4Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k27 Sep29 Sep1 Oct4 Oct6 Oct8 Oct

Top 60% of all ranked servers, and #586 of the quad servers (top 69%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Bx1Wipe schedule

too few wipes seen yet

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

3.7 days
usual gap
between real wipes
2
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 1

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Thu 1 OctSun 27 Sep
00.511.52+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 3 hours in.

Bx2Wipes

newest first · each peak a flare-up, on one √ span to its biggest
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers 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.

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0 / 100
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0 / 233
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quad · monthly · 67 on average
43 / 350
[US] Facepunch Softcore 2
NA · quad · monthly · 59 on average
37 / 300
Reddit.com/r/PlayRust - AU Softcore
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27 / 150
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LogQuick answers

from the figures on this page

Wipe schedule

What does wipe day look like on mess around?

The average peak across its recent wipes is 2 players. 3 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked. Above half the peak until the next wipe: that held in 0% of its recent wipes. It fell below half by day 1 when it did not hold.

What is the wipe schedule on mess around?

The record of mess around's wipes is not yet long enough to show a rhythm. Next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, the monthly force wipe resets every Rust server. The world in play now was made 27 days 14 hours ago.

Player counts

How busy is mess around?

The last time mess around was seen was 27 days 10 hours ago, and it is offline now.

How does mess around rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over seven days put mess around at #13,881, in the top 60% of ranked servers. Ranked against other quad servers, it comes in at #586.

Rules and settings

Which map does mess around run?

A procedural map of size 4,000 with seed 800000, generated by the game, runs on mess around. You can look at the map on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed give the same map.

What are the rules and settings on mess around?

No gather rate appears in the name mess around. A group can have at most 4 players (quad). softcore is the game mode, The lighter mode from Facepunch, where part of your loot is kept. Players can fight each other, and raids are allowed. The server browser lists it as Modded: plugins or settings change the game. Oxide plugins are in use. The server has VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, turned off.

Location and uptime

Which version of Rust does mess around run?

The build on mess around is Rust network protocol 2633 and build 165217, running on Linux. Your game must run the same protocol to join, and Steam takes care of updating it.

Is mess around online, and how reliable is it?

Offline at the moment: mess around was last seen 27 days 10 hours ago. 0 of 168 hours up over the last 7 full days, which is 0%. It first appears in Rust Heatmap records on 27 September 2026.

Where is mess around located?

Nothing about a region comes from mess around. Rust Heatmap shows the location a server states. It does not look up the machine's location. You can reach it at 157.85.93.192:20382.

Lists and filters

Which Rust Heatmap lists and filters include mess around?

These Rust Heatmap lists include mess around: Modded Rust servers, by live population. Filtering the list by Type: Modded; Game mode: Softcore; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Quad brings it up.

What do the server tags on mess around mean?

gmsoftcore (Game mode): The ruleset is softcore, the easier one; mp10 (Max players): Slot count: 10; ts4 (Group limit): A team holds no more than 4; v2633 (Protocol): The server runs game protocol 2633, so your game has to match it; cs165217 (Build): The game build here is 165217; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): The region code is blank; ^o (Oxide): Plugins run through Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): The game is changed by settings or plugins, so it sits under Modded are the tags mess around publishes, and the server browser reads them. The top of this page also shows the tags for players now, the queue and when the world was made.

Connect

How do I join mess around?

Enter client.connect 157.85.93.192:20382 in the console, opened with F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here, which opens the game through Steam and connects you.

KeyServer tags

what each one means

Published as mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmsoftcore,cs165217,ts4,^o^z

Game

gmsoftcore
Game mode The ruleset is softcore, the easier one.
mp10
Max players Slot count: 10.
ts4
Group limit A team holds no more than 4.
v2633
Protocol The server runs game protocol 2633, so your game has to match it.
cs165217
Build The game build here is 165217.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code The region code is blank.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Plugins run through Oxide (uMod).
^z
Modded The game is changed by settings or plugins, so it sits under Modded.

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.