Africa
198.73.57.173:28015 checked 9m 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
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
Quick answers
Server rules
Which settings and rules apply on Africa?
No gather rate appears in the name Africa. Up to 8 players can group, which is the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid: the standard game. You can fight and raid other players here. The server browser lists it under Community. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, from Valve.
Which map is active on Africa?
A procedural map, size 4,250 with seed 1104, generated by the game, is what Africa runs. You can view it on RustMaps from this page, since the same size and seed give the same map.
Player count
How full is Africa?
Right now, 0 players are on Africa, which has 30 slots. Averaged over the last week, the player count is 0.
What position does Africa hold in the server rankings?
For player hours over the last week, Africa is #15,892, which puts it in the top 72% of all ranked servers.
Server tags
How should you read the tags on Africa?
For the game's server browser, Africa publishes these tags: gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival gameplay; mp30 (Max players): It holds 30 players; ts8 (Group limit): Teams max out at 8—the default setting for Rust; v2631 (Protocol): Protocol 2631—only players on that version can get in; cs156658 (Build): Build number: 156658; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is standard; $r? (Region code): Region code left unset. The tags carry its players now, its queue and the time its world was made as well, and the top of this page displays them.
Where does Africa appear in Rust Zerg Life lists?
The Rust Zerg Life lists that include Africa are Rust community servers for clans. Under these filters it shows on the server list: Region: Africa; Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
Server details
Is Africa currently online and stable?
Africa is up and running as you read this. The uptime figure it gives suggests it restarted around 15 days 7 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, uptime was 100%: 168 hours up out of 168. Rust Zerg Life has been tracking it since 13 September 2026.
How well does Africa perform?
Server fps held an average of 84 for the last 48 hours, with a minimum of 52. The world held as many as 100,228 entities, including buildings, deployables and everything else. At its highest, memory usage hit 6,447 MB. Lag, as players feel it, is caused by low fps and an increasing number of entities.
Which Rust build does Africa use?
Rust network protocol 2631 and build 156658 is what Africa runs, on Windows. You can only join if your game uses the same protocol, and Steam takes care of updating it.
What location does Africa use?
Without a region tag from Africa, its name still points to Africa. The location shown by Rust Zerg Life is what a server says; it does not check where the machine stands. Connect to it at 198.73.57.173:28015.
Wipe schedule
What schedule does Africa follow for wipes?
So few of Africa's wipes are recorded that its rhythm cannot be told yet. Next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC: the monthly force wipe that every Rust server gets. The world in play right now was made 102 days 6 hours ago.
Join the server
What steps do I take to join Africa?
You can join by opening the console with F1 and typing client.connect 198.73.57.173:28015. Or hit Launch Rust on this page to open Rust through Steam and connect.
Server tags
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.