Fooling Around
Online 76.16.72.212:28115 checked 15m ago
Li2Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Li3Server 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.
Li4Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 22% of all ranked servers, and #305 of the quad servers (top 37%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Bx1Wipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 17h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
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.
Bx2Wipes
newest first · each peak a flare-up, on one √ span to its biggest| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun 4 Oct, 02:13 UTC24d ago | 2° | – | running | 1 |
| Fri 2 Oct, 01:26 UTC26d ago | 1° | held half | 2 days | 1 |
| Tue 22 Sep, 21:46 UTC36d 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.
Bx6Similar servers
the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipesLogQuick answers
from the figures on this pageWipe day
What does wipe day look like on Fooling Around?
At their busiest, its recent wipes averaged 1 players. The crowd on the latest wipe reached its peak 17 hours in. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 100% of its recent wipes.
What is the wipe schedule on Fooling Around?
A single monthly wipe, the force wipe, is all Fooling Around runs. Its next wipe falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC with the force wipe, when all Rust servers wipe. 24 days 23 hours ago the server made the world it is on now. The tags list one wipe a month.
Player counts
How busy is Fooling Around?
Of 10 slots on Fooling Around, 0 are in use right now. Averaged over the past week: 0 players, peaking at 2. Look at 02:00 UTC for the last 48 hours: that hour averaged 1 players.
How does Fooling Around rank against other Rust servers?
Player hours over seven days put Fooling Around at #4,829, in the top 22% of ranked servers. Ranked against other quad servers, it comes in at #305.
Rules and settings
Which map does Fooling Around run?
Fooling Around runs a procedural map, which the game generates.
What are the rules and settings on Fooling Around?
The name Fooling Around does not specify a gather rate. 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. Combat between players and raiding are both possible. The server browser lists it as Modded: plugins or settings change the game. Plugin count: Oxide. The server has VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, turned on.
About the server
Which version of Rust does Fooling Around run?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Windows is what Fooling Around runs. Steam updates your game for you, and the protocol has to match for you to join.
Is Fooling Around online, and how reliable is it?
The server is up at the moment: Fooling Around is online. 142 of 168 hours up over the last 7 full days, which is 85%. It first appears in Rust Heatmap records on 20 September 2026.
Where is Fooling Around located?
No region is published by Fooling Around. Rust Heatmap shows the location a server states. It does not look up the machine's location. To connect, use 76.16.72.212:28115.
Tags
Which Rust Heatmap lists and filters include Fooling Around?
The Rust Heatmap lists that Fooling Around fits are: Modded Rust servers, by live population. These are the filters that return it on the list: Type: Modded; Game mode: Softcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Softcore ^s, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
What do the server tags on Fooling Around mean?
gmsoftcore (Game mode): The ruleset is softcore, the easier one; mp10 (Max players): This server has 10 slots; ts4 (Group limit): The team limit is 4; v2635 (Protocol): Your game must match protocol 2635 to get in; cs168909 (Build): The game build here is 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): The region code is blank; ^m (Monthly): The wipe cycle is monthly and follows Facepunch's force wipe; ^s (Softcore): Facepunch's softcore mode, the easier one, keeps part of your inventory on death; ^o (Oxide): The plugin framework in use is Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Listed as Modded, since settings or plugins change the game are the tags Fooling Around publishes, and the server browser reads them. Players now, the queue and the world's creation time sit in the tags as well and appear at the top of this page.
Connect
How do I join Fooling Around?
To join by console, open it with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 76.16.72.212:28115. Or press Launch Rust on this page, which connects you through Steam.