Player identity lookup
What TornLife's research has established about Player identity lookup, and the questions players asked about it.
What TornLife has verified
- The Torn Wiki's 2017 Search page describes a basic player-lookup "Standard" search (separate Name text box and ID text box, available to all players) and an "Advanced Search" available only to Donators, with additional fields: Name, Level (range), Faction, Gender, Marital status, Days old (range), Property, Offences (range), Online status. (documented; Search › Search Types › Standard / Advanced Search, )
- Killerworm [2561128] is a level 100 Torn player, rank title Invincible Thief, role Civilian, who signed up on 2020-05-28, currently in the Mana faction as of 18 Sep 2026. (documented; TornLife data: get player, )
- Killerworm's rank title changed from Invincible Egotist to Invincible Thief, and their company changed to company ID 95544, both recorded between the observations of 25 Jan 2026 and 18 Sep 2026. (documented; TornLife history: Killerworm, )
- Killerworm is in the faction Mana [8677] (tag MANA), holding position 'Taniwha', with 479 days in the faction as of 18 Sep 2026; TornLife estimates they joined about 2025-05-27, observed continuously in Mana from 25 Jan 2026 to 18 Sep 2026. (documented; TornLife data: get player faction, )
- TornLife's data ranks Killerworm #279 in Money mugged (top 0.033%), #1,709 in Networth (top 0.073%), and #955 in Largest mug (top 0.12%). (documented; TornLife data: get player, )
- TornLife's published summary separately states Killerworm ranks #278 for money mugged, with a total of $23,956,276,128 mugged. (documented; TornLife history: Killerworm, )
- Killerworm's most-replied threads are '10* Private Security Firm Hiring!' (23 replies, last post 5 May 2024), 'Negative Networth Hall of Fame' (16 replies, last post 20 Aug 2025), 'Unleash the Legend: M'AOL Rises!' (12 replies, last post 29 Oct 2024), an RPG Launcher trading thread (8 replies, last post 31 May 2022), and '[Script] Faster Torn Slots' (7 replies, last post 2 Jul 2026). (documented; TornLife data: get player threads, )
- A developer stated that all areas of Torn, including the top search bar, use the same underlying search system, which matches a search string anywhere within a name (not only as a prefix) — for example searching "Pence" finds a player named "MikePence" even though the name does not start with that string. (confirmed by Torn; User search sorting, )
- The same developer declined a player request to make the search tool show only names starting with the entered text, saying it would require an extra query mode (exact match first, then starts-with, then any-match) that would slow the search down, and concluded it was better left as-is. (confirmed by Torn; User search sorting, )
- Patch list #422 (covering 17/02/2026–24/02/2026) added a sort option to the Advanced Search system allowing results to be ordered by name, level, age, last action, or random. (confirmed by Torn; Patch list #422 : Fallen badges, Advanced search sorting, New scenario, EOD cou…, )
- The same 2017 wiki page frames the advanced player-search tool's main use case as finding inactive players to mug or attack, not as a way to search forum content. (documented; Search, )
- The by:Username (or by:ID) author-filter syntax for forum search was introduced in patch list #115, dated 29/10/19, with the documented example "by: 1" or "by: Chedburn testing". (confirmed by Torn; Forum/Patch History, )
Questions about Player identity lookup
- How can players search Torn's forums efficiently for specific posts, users, or keywords?
For keyword searches of posts, use the general forum search box and the by:Username (or by:ID) filter to restrict results to one player's posts, opti…