Africa
Online 198.73.57.173:28015 checked 14m ago
Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
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
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
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players 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.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Settings and map
On Africa, which rules and settings apply?
You will find no gather rate in the name of Africa. The default group limit of 8 players applies. The server runs survival, building, gathering and raiding in the standard game. Fighting and raiding other players is permitted. Filed under Community in the server browser, it is a community server. VAC is on: Valve's anti-cheat is enabled.
Which map is in use on Africa?
Africa runs a procedural map of size 4,250 with seed 1104, generated by the game. From this page you can view the map on RustMaps; the same size and seed give the same map.
Tags and filters
Where does Africa appear among the Rust Server Index lists and filters?
These lists on Rust Server Index take Africa: Community Rust servers, indexed. Filed under these filters on the server list: Region: Africa; Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
Which tags are attached to Africa, and what do they stand for?
The server's own tags are listed here, and the game's server browser reads them: Africa gives gmrust (Game mode): Survival on standard Rust rules; mp30 (Max players): 30 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): The team limit is 8, as in the standard game; v2631 (Protocol): Joining needs you on game protocol 2631; cs156658 (Build): It runs build 156658; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, as standard for Rust; $r? (Region code): A region code is absent. Current players, queue length and when the world was made appear in the tags, set out at the top of this page.
Wipe dates
When does Africa wipe?
Africa's rhythm cannot be told yet: too few of its wipes are on record. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe arrives, and every Rust server wipes with it. Its present world dates from 117 days 2 hours.
Players and ranking
How is Africa ranked compared with the rest?
Filed under rankings: #15,335 for Africa on seven-day player hours, top 69% overall.
What does the player count on Africa look like?
Africa is currently showing 0 players on 30 slots. 0 players is the average over the past seven days.
Server details
What version does Africa use?
Rust network protocol 2631 and build 156658, on Windows, is what Africa runs. The protocol must match before you can join, and Steam takes care of updating it.
How reliable is Africa, and is it online now?
The server is live at this moment: Africa. About 10 days 20 hours ago, by its own uptime figure, is when it last restarted. Uptime for the last 7 full days came to 99%, 167 hours out of 168. It was first recorded by Rust Server Index on 13 September 2026.
What is performance like on Africa?
Averaged over the last 48 hours, server fps was 88, with a low of 61. The entity count reached 100,086, covering buildings, deployables and all else in the world. Up to 4,926 MB of memory was in use. Lag, to players, is low fps and an entity count that climbs.
Where in the world is Africa hosted?
The name of Africa points to Africa, though no region tag is published. Rust Server Index takes the server's word for its location and does not look up the machine's position. Connection details: 198.73.57.173:28015.
Connecting
What is the way onto Africa?
Two ways in. Type client.connect 198.73.57.173:28015 into the Rust console after pressing F1, or use Launch Rust and join on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
Server tags
What each one means.
Published as mp30,ptrak,$r?,v2631,gmrust,cs156658,ts8
Game
gmrust
mp30
ts8
v2631
cs156658
ptrak
$r?
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.