LowBlowZA
Online AF 41.193.57.20:28004 checked 1h 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 4 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 18% of all ranked servers, top 32% in AF. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 0h. The force wipe · high confidence
- usual gap
- 0.8 daysbetween real wipes
- wipe-day peak
- 2players, last three wipes
Coming wipes
- in 8d 0hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- in 36d 0hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 1 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
5 OCT 2026Mon 5 Oct, 16:22 UTC23d ago |
2 | – | running | 0 |
4 OCT 2026Sun 4 Oct, 21:09 UTC23d ago |
2 | – | 0.8 days | 2 |
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.
Rules and settings
On LowBlowZA, which rules and settings apply?
You will find no gather rate in the name of LowBlowZA. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. The server runs survival, building, gathering and raiding in the standard game. PvP and raiding are allowed. The server browser lists it under Modded; plugins or settings alter the game. Oxide plugins are run on it. VAC is on: Valve's anti-cheat is enabled.
Which map is in use on LowBlowZA?
LowBlowZA runs a procedural map of size 3,000 with seed 55847, generated by the game. The map can be seen on RustMaps from this page, because the same size and seed give the same map.
Tags and filters
Which lists and filters on Rust Server Index is LowBlowZA filed under?
Filed under these Rust Server Index lists is LowBlowZA: Modded Rust servers, filed by play style. These filters on the server list bring it up: Region: Africa; Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly.
What is meant by the tags on LowBlowZA?
Filed under these tags, as published by LowBlowZA and read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival on standard Rust rules; mp40 (Max players): The queue ceiling sits at 40; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, the default setting; v2635 (Protocol): The protocol is 2635; older or newer clients cannot join; cs168909 (Build): It runs build 168909; ptrak (Networking): Networking runs on RakNet, the game's default layer; $r? (Region code): A region code is absent; ^m (Monthly): It wipes monthly with the force wipe from Facepunch; ^o (Oxide): Oxide, also known as uMod, provides the plugin framework; ^z (Modded): Plugins or changed settings put this under Modded; AF (Africa): The browser files it under Africa. Current players, queue length and when the world was made appear in the tags, set out at the top of this page.
Wipe dates
How does a wipe day run on LowBlowZA?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew 2 players on average. 1 hours into the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak.
Which wipe timetable does LowBlowZA follow?
The only wipe on LowBlowZA is the monthly force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 22 days 22 hours is when its current world was made. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
Population
How is LowBlowZA ranked compared with the rest?
The seven-day player-hours ranking places LowBlowZA at #4,096 and #10 in Africa, among the top 18% of ranked servers.
How many players are on LowBlowZA at the moment?
The live count for LowBlowZA stands at 2 players, out of 40 slots. Filed under seven-day figures: an average of 0 players and a peak of 2. Over the last 48 hours, 17:00 UTC drew the highest average: 2 players.
Operator and status
What Rust version is LowBlowZA on?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what you will find on LowBlowZA. The protocol must match before you can join, and Steam takes care of updating it.
Is LowBlowZA reachable, and does it stay up?
You will find LowBlowZA online as of now. Its reported uptime gives the last restart as roughly 12 hours ago. Of the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours were up, 100% of the time. The earliest sighting at Rust Server Index is 4 October 2026.
Is the performance on LowBlowZA good?
Server fps held at 220 on average across the last 48 hours, never dropping below 74. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world came to as many as 59,469 entities. Up to 2,589 MB of memory was in use. Lag, to players, is low fps and an entity count that climbs.
Which region is LowBlowZA in?
LowBlowZA gives Africa as its location and the tag AF. No lookup of the machine's position is made by Rust Server Index; it shows where the server says it is. You will reach it at 41.193.57.20:28004.
Connecting
What is the way onto LowBlowZA?
If you would rather use the console, press F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 41.193.57.20:28004. You can also choose Launch Rust and join here; that opens Rust through Steam and connects you. The website can be found at https://discord.com/invite/etAtqFcp4.
Server tags
What each one means.
Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,AF,gmrust,cs168909,ts8,^o^z
Game
gmrust
mp40
ts8
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Mods and access
^o
^z
Region
AF
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.