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The count
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Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
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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.
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Top 22% of all ranked servers, and #305 of the quad servers (top 37%). Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Coming up · wipe schedule
force wipes only
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 21h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 17 hours in.
The current map
Sunday 4 October 2026, 02:13 UTC
Wipe
Friday 2 October 2026, 01:26 UTC
Wipe
Tuesday 22 September 2026, 21:46 UTC
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.
The average peak across its recent wipes is 1 players. 17 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak. Half the peak was held until the next wipe in 100% of its recent wipes.
The monthly force wipe is the only wipe Fooling Around takes. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. This world dates from 24 days 19 hours. Its tags give wipes as monthly.
On Rust Live Stats, Fooling Around is listed under Modded Rust servers live now. These filters on the server list bring it up: Type: Modded; Game mode: Softcore; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Softcore ^s, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: Quad; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
These are the tags Fooling Around makes public: gmsoftcore (Game mode): Softcore ruleset: an easier game; mp10 (Max players): Slots: 10; ts4 (Group limit): Each team holds 4 at most; v2635 (Protocol): Join only if your game is on protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's usual network layer, carries this server; $r? (Region code): Region code: none set; ^m (Monthly): It wipes with Facepunch's force wipe, once each month; ^s (Softcore): Die and keep part of your inventory: that is Facepunch's softcore mode; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, runs on this server; ^z (Modded): The game changes here through plugins or settings, so it is Modded. Also in the tags: players on now, the queue, and when the world was made. You will find them at the top of this page.
Live now: 0 players on Fooling Around, out of 10 slots. Peak over the past week: 2. Average: 0 players. Between now and 48 hours back, 01:00 UTC drew the most players, 1 on average.
Player hours over seven days put Fooling Around at #4,822, in the top 22% of all ranked servers. The server sits at #305 among quad servers.
Nothing in the name of Fooling Around states a gather rate. quad sets the cap: 4 players per group. softcore applies here, The easier Facepunch mode, where you keep some loot. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. Plugins or settings change the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. The plugin load is Oxide. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
The map on Fooling Around is procedural, made by the game itself.
Nothing on Fooling Around states a region. The location shown on Rust Live Stats is the one a server gives, not a lookup of the machine's position. 76.16.72.212:28115 is its address.
Fooling Around operates on Windows with Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
At the time of this update, Fooling Around is live. 129 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 77% uptime. On 20 September 2026, Rust Live Stats saw it for the first time.
Enter client.connect 76.16.72.212:28115 in the console (F1 in Rust). Another way is Launch Rust and join on this page: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.