Africa
Online 198.73.57.173:28015 checked 10m 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 70% 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.
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What is the wipe schedule on Africa?
Not enough of Africa's wipes are on record yet to tell its rhythm. Every Rust server wipes at the monthly force wipe, next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Its current world was made 95 days 20 hours ago.
Players
How busy is Africa?
Right now Africa has 0 players on 30 slots. Over the last seven days it averaged 0 players.
How does Africa rank against other Rust servers?
Africa is #16,608 on player hours over the last seven days, in the top 70% of all ranked servers.
Rules and map
What are the rules and settings on Africa?
Africa gives no gather rate in its name. Groups can have up to 8 players, the game's default. Its game mode is survival, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Players can fight and raid each other. It is a community server, listed under Community in the server browser. Valve's anti-cheat, VAC, is on.
Which map does Africa run?
Africa runs a procedural map, generated by the game, of size 4,250 with seed 1104. The same size and seed give the same map, so it can be looked at on RustMaps from this page.
Tags and lists
What do the server tags on Africa mean?
Africa publishes these tags, which the game's server browser reads: gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival; mp30 (Max players): 30 slots; ts8 (Group limit): At most 8 per team, the game default; v2631 (Protocol): Game protocol 2631: your game has to be on the same version to join; cs156658 (Build): Game build 156658; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's standard network layer; $r? (Region code): No region code set. Its players now, its queue and the time its world was made are in the tags too, and are shown at the top of this page.
Which Zongarust lists and filters include Africa?
Africa fits these Zongarust lists: Best Rust community servers. On the server list it comes up under these filters: Region: Africa; Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
The server
Where is Africa located?
Africa publishes no region tag, but its name points to Africa. Zongarust shows where a server says it is; it does not look up where the machine stands. Its address is 198.73.57.173:28015.
Is Africa online, and how reliable is it?
Africa is online right now. It last restarted about 8 days 21 hours ago, going by the uptime it reports. Over the last 7 full days it was up 100% of the time, 168 of 168 hours. Zongarust first saw it on 13 September 2026.
Does Africa run smoothly?
Over the last 48 hours it ran at 89 server fps on average, never below 60. It carried up to 100,230 entities: buildings, deployables and everything else in the world. It used up to 4,823 MB of memory. Low fps and a climbing entity count are what players feel as lag.
Which version of Rust does Africa run?
Africa runs Rust network protocol 2631 and build 156658 on Windows. Your game has to be on the same protocol to join; Steam updates it for you.
Joining
How do I join Africa?
Start Rust, press F1 to open the console and enter client.connect 198.73.57.173:28015. Or use Launch Rust and join on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.