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Africa

Online 198.73.57.173:28015 checked 11m ago

Stats

Players
0/ 30
0% full
Slots
30open
30 max players
7-day avg
0
7-day average · peak –
FPS
81
server frames a second, the latest hour; the bar fills at 60
Uptime
11d 1h
since its last restart; the bar fills at a day
Rank
#15,289
top 69%
Last wipe · new game
117d ago
no schedule published
Next wipe · continue?
–
no wipe seen yet

Players

AveragePeak
0123420:0005:0014:0000:0009:0018:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

025507510020:0005:0014:0000:0009:0018:00

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, measured since 17 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Wipe schedule

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
No wipe seen yet.

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.

Similar servers

the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes
Intoxicated ZA Vanilla 3 - 01 Oct
AF · groups of 8+ · monthly · 18 on average
22 / 150
Intoxicated ZA Vanilla 1 - 29 Oct - Just wiped
AF · groups of 8+ · biweekly · 7 on average
58 / 100
ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA
AF · groups of 8+ · monthly · 1 on average
4 / 50
Voodoo ZA
AF · groups of 8+ · monthly · 1 on average
5 / 100
KAKGENOEG NO KOS SOLO | DUO | TRIO za
AF · trio · monthly · 2 on average
3 / 50
CORDEX NO KOS, SOLO, DUO, TRIO
AF · trio · monthly · 1 on average
2 / 100

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Settings and map

Which map is loaded on Africa?

Size 4,250 and seed 1104 define the game-generated procedural map on Africa. From this page RustMaps displays it, since the same size and seed always give the same map.

What are the rules and settings on Africa?

The name of Africa carries no gather rate. Up to 8 players per group, which is the game's default. survival is the mode, raiding, building and gathering in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. The server browser puts it under Community. Anti-cheat is on: VAC is enabled.

Wipe days

What is the wipe schedule on Africa?

The record of Africa's wipes is too thin yet to tell its rhythm. The monthly force wipe reaches every Rust server, and the next one lands on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 117 days 7 hours is how long the current world has been up.

Tag guide

What do the server tags on Africa mean?

gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp30 (Max players): Slot count: 30; ts8 (Group limit): Team size is capped at 8, which is the game default; v2631 (Protocol): Join only if your game is on protocol 2631; cs156658 (Build): The game build is 156658; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard one; $r? (Region code): The region code is blank are the tags Africa publishes for the game's server browser. The top of this page also shows the live player count, the queue and when the world was made, all from the tags.

Which Rust Leaderboard lists and filters include Africa?

Africa appears on the following Rust Leaderboard lists: Best Rust community servers. Region: Africa; Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more are the filters that surface it on the server list.

Server details

Which Rust version is Africa on?

The build behind Africa: Rust network protocol 2631 and build 156658 on Windows. Steam updates your game so it sits on the same protocol needed to join.

Is Africa up right now, and how steady is it?

Right now the lights are on at Africa. About 11 days 1 hours ago is when it last restarted, judged by the uptime it reports. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days: 167 of 168 hours on. The first record Rust Leaderboard has of it is 13 September 2026.

How well does Africa perform?

The 48-hour average is 87 server fps; the floor was 61. Buildings, deployables and all the rest of the world took the entity count as high as 100,086. It drew up to 4,926 MB of memory at its highest. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count keeps climbing.

Where in the world is Africa hosted?

No region tag comes from Africa, but Africa is where its name points. A server's stated location is what Rust Leaderboard shows; it does not look up where the machine actually stands. You will find it at 198.73.57.173:28015.

The crowd

Where does Africa sit on the leaderboard?

Player hours over seven days put Africa at #15,289, among the top 69% of ranked servers.

How many players are on Africa right now?

On Africa, 0 players are in and 30 slots are on the board. Over seven days, players averaged 0.

How to join

How do I join Africa?

In the Rust console (F1) enter client.connect 198.73.57.173:28015. Launch Rust from this page instead and it opens the game through Steam and joins for you.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp30,ptrak,$r?,v2631,gmrust,cs156658,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode The game mode is standard Rust survival.
mp30
Max players Slot count: 30.
ts8
Group limit Team size is capped at 8, which is the game default.
v2631
Protocol Join only if your game is on protocol 2631.
cs156658
Build The game build is 156658.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard one.
$r?
Region code The region code is blank.

Players now (cp), the queue (qp) and the wipe time (born) are in the tag string too; they change every few minutes and are shown at the top of the page. Flag meanings are Facepunch's.