Fooling Around
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 20%.
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
76.16.72.212:28115
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 1166 places on last week. Top 20% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 76.16.72.212:28115
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 10
- Group limit
- quad
- Wipe schedule
- monthly
- Last wipe
- 4 Oct 2026, 02:13 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 20 Sep 2026
Other contenders
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Map and rules
What are Fooling Around's rules and configuration?
There is no gather rate in the name of Fooling Around. You can have up to 4 players in a group (quad). It plays as softcore, Facepunch's less punishing mode, keeping some of your loot. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. The server browser lists it as Modded: plugins or settings alter the game. Oxide plugins are running on it. The server has VAC on.
What's the map on Fooling Around?
The map on Fooling Around is procedural, created by the game.
Tags
How should you read the tags on Fooling Around?
These tags come from Fooling Around and go straight into the game's server browser: gmsoftcore (Game mode): The softcore ruleset: easier all round; mp10 (Max players): 10 players fit in; ts4 (Group limit): No more than 4 to a team; v2634 (Protocol): Get on protocol 2634 or the door stays shut; cs167058 (Build): Game build is 167058; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which the game uses as standard; $r? (Region code): No region code on record; ^m (Monthly): Facepunch's force wipe brings the monthly reset; ^s (Softcore): Some of your loot stays with you on death. That is softcore; ^o (Oxide): Plugin framework: Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): Modded listing, with plugins or settings altering the game. From the tags, this page also pulls its live player count, its queue and its world's creation time, and puts them at the top.
Which Boongarust filters show Fooling Around?
The Boongarust lists that take Fooling Around are: Top modded Rust servers. It appears on the server list when you filter by: Type: Modded; Game mode: Softcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Softcore ^s, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server details
What's the physical location of Fooling Around?
No region comes from Fooling Around. Where a server says it is, that is what Boongarust shows. Where the machine actually stands is not looked up. You can reach it at 76.16.72.212:28115.
How reliable is Fooling Around?
Fooling Around is up as you read this. 166 hours out of 168 across the last 7 full days. 99% uptime. The first record Boongarust has is 20 September 2026.
Which Rust build does Fooling Around have?
On Windows, Fooling Around runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167058. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe times
What happens on wipe day at Fooling Around?
1 players was the average peak on recent wipes. Peak crowd on the latest wipe came 17 hours after it. The crowd stayed above half the peak until the next wipe in 100% of recent wipes.
How often does Fooling Around wipe?
The force wipe is the only wipe for Fooling Around, once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes the force wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 4 days 2 hours ago this server built its current world. Its tags say it wipes monthly.
Player counts
What's Fooling Around's rank among Rust servers?
In the top 20% of all ranked servers, Fooling Around is #4,859 on player hours over the last seven days. In the quad group, it sits at #314.
What's the player count on Fooling Around?
Fooling Around is showing 1 players on 10 slots right now. It averaged 0 players over the last seven days and peaked at 2. It was busiest at 05:00 UTC in the last 48 hours, with 1 players on average.
Join the server
What's the process to join Fooling Around?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and enter client.connect 76.16.72.212:28115. 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,^m,^s,gmsoftcore,cs167058,ts4,^o^z.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.