Online198.73.57.173:28015checked 9m ago
Africa
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
daily · 1 is bestTop 72% 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| 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
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What are the rules and settings on Africa?
The name of Africa gives no gather rate. Up to 8 players form a group, which is the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build, raid: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. It is a community server: the server browser shows it under Community. The server has VAC on: Valve's anti-cheat.
What is the map for Africa?
The map on Africa is procedural, of size 4,250 and seed 1104, made by the game. The same size and seed produce the same map, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
Player count
How populated is Africa?
On Africa, 0 of 30 slots are filled right now. The average player count for the last seven days is 0.
What position does Africa hold in the Rust server rankings?
Africa is in the top 72% of all ranked servers, at #15,912 for player hours over the last seven days.
Tags
How should you interpret the tags on Africa?
These tags are set by Africa and read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The game mode is standard Rust survival; mp30 (Max players): 30 player slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size is 8; v2631 (Protocol): Your game version must match protocol 2631 to connect; cs156658 (Build): Game build: 156658; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the default network layer for Rust, and this server uses it; $r? (Region code): The region code is not set. Also in the tags, and shown at the top of this page: its players now, its queue, and when its world was made.
Where does Africa appear in When Is Rust Force Wipe lists and filters?
These themed lists on When Is Rust Force Wipe feature Africa: Best Rust community servers. These filters show it on the server list: Region: Africa; Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
Server details
Where can Africa be found?
No region tag is published by Africa, but its name points to Africa. The location on When Is Rust Force Wipe is what the server claims; the actual machine location is not checked. Connect using 198.73.57.173:28015.
What is the performance like on Africa?
Over the last 48 hours the average was 84 server fps, and the lowest was 52. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world came to a peak of 100,228 entities. Memory use peaked at 6,447 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and entity counts climb.
What is the uptime and reliability of Africa?
You can connect to Africa at this moment. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 15 days 10 hours ago. It was up 168 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, 100% of the time. The first sighting of it by When Is Rust Force Wipe was on 13 September 2026.
Which Rust version is used on Africa?
The version on Africa is Rust network protocol 2631 and build 156658, on Windows. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe info
When does Africa wipe?
Its rhythm cannot be told from the wipes of Africa on record, which are too few. The monthly force wipe, next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, wipes every Rust server. The world in play now was built 102 days 9 hours ago.
How to join
How can you connect to Africa?
Enter client.connect 198.73.57.173:28015 after pressing F1 to open the console in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished 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.