mess around
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 45%.
Power level
Players on it, from the Steam server list.
Every five minutes.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Tale of the tape
Against its closest rival: the most similar server we track.
Wipe receipt
157.85.86.176:23760
THANK YOU · COME AGAIN NEXT WIPE
The map
Under the hood
Asked of the server directly. Low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
The ranking
Down 163 places on last week. Top 45% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 157.85.86.176:23760
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 10
- Group limit
- quad
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 1 Oct 2026, 19:33 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 1 Oct 2026
Other contenders
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Server rules
What settings does mess around use?
The name of mess around does not include a gather rate. You can have up to 4 players in a group (quad). softcore is the game mode, Facepunch's less punishing mode, keeping some of your loot. You can fight and raid other players. Modded in the browser is where it appears: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Oxide plugins are running on it. The server has VAC off.
What's the map on mess around?
mess around uses a procedural map of 4,000 that the game generates with seed 800000. The map is identical for the same size and seed, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
Tags
How should you read the tags on mess around?
These tags come from mess around and go straight into the game's server browser: gmsoftcore (Game mode): An easier set of rules: softcore; mp10 (Max players): 10 players fit in; ts4 (Group limit): 4 is the team limit; v2634 (Protocol): Get on protocol 2634 or the door stays shut; cs166494 (Build): Running build 166494; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod) handles the plugins; ^z (Modded): Modded listing, with plugins or settings altering the game. The tags carry its current players, its queue and its world's creation time, and this page puts them up top.
Which Boongarust filters show mess around?
These Boongarust lists are a fit for mess around: Top modded Rust servers. 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 week.
Server details
Is mess around laggy?
Average server fps over the last 48 hours was 108, with a low of 92. Buildings, deployables and everything else added up to as many as 85,236 entities. It drew as much as 3,437 MB of memory. Lag, to players, means low fps and a growing entity count.
What's the location of mess around?
From mess around, there is no region. Boongarust takes the server at its word on location and does not check where the machine sits. You can reach it at 157.85.86.176:23760.
How often is mess around online?
Online: mess around, at this moment. A restart happened about 6 days 11 hours ago, based on the uptime figure. Last 6 full days: 100% uptime, with 144 hours up out of 144. The first record Boongarust has is 1 October 2026.
What Rust version is mess around using?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166494 on Linux: that is mess around. You must match the protocol to join; Steam updates it automatically.
Wipe times
How often does mess around wipe?
mess around's wipes are too few on record to show a rhythm. The monthly force wipe hits every Rust server, and the next one lands on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 6 days 13 hours ago this server built its current world.
Population
Where does mess around sit in the rankings?
In the top 45% of all ranked servers, mess around is #10,806 on player hours over the last seven days. For quad servers, #527 is its place.
What's the player count on mess around?
0 players are on mess around at the moment, out of 10 slots. It averaged 0 players over the last seven days and peaked at 2. Over the last 48 hours, the busiest hour was 00:00 UTC, averaging 0 players.
How to join
How can you get into mess around?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 157.85.86.176:23760. Or click Launch Rust here, which uses Steam to open the game and join.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmsoftcore,cs166494,ts4,^o^z.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.