On air · chart position #15,326
Africa
Online 198.73.57.173:28015 checked 11m ago
Players
Africa
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.
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Quick answers
About the server
Is Africa online, and how reliable is it?
Africa is up as you read this. The uptime it reports puts its last restart about 10 days 19 hours ago. It stayed up 99% of the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours. The first record Rust Charts holds of it is 13 September 2026.
Where is Africa located?
The name of Africa points to Africa, though no region tag is published. Where a server says it is — that's what Rust Charts shows, without checking the machine's real location. Connect at 198.73.57.173:28015.
Which version of Rust does Africa run?
Rust network protocol 2631 and build 156658 on Windows is the version Africa runs. Steam updates your game for you; all you need is the same protocol to join.
Does Africa run smoothly?
Never under 61, and 88 server fps on average, is how the last 48 hours went. At its fullest it held 100,086 entities: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. At most it took 4,926 MB of memory. Lag, as players experience it, is low fps plus entities piling up.
Player counts
How busy is Africa?
Right now 0 players are on Africa, out of 30 slots. Averaged over seven days, it drew 0 players.
How does Africa rank against other Rust servers?
In the seven-day player hours table, Africa is #15,326, inside the top 69% of all ranked servers.
Wipe schedule
What is the wipe schedule on Africa?
The record of Africa's wipes is too short to show a rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe arrives, and it covers every Rust server. The world in play was made 117 days 1 hours.
Rules and world
What are the rules and settings on Africa?
No gather rate appears in the name Africa. 8 players is the group limit, the default for the game. You play survival, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. PvP is on: players fight and raid. The server browser lists it under Community, as a community server. The anti-cheat VAC from Valve is on.
Which map does Africa run?
Africa runs a procedural map of size 4,250 with seed 1104, generated by the game. You can view it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed produce the same map.
Tags explained
Which Rust Charts lists and filters include Africa?
These Rust Charts lists include Africa: Rust community servers, unmodded. On the server list, these filters put it in view: Region: Africa; Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
What do the server tags on Africa mean?
These are the tags Africa makes public, and the server browser reads them: gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival rules apply; mp30 (Max players): 30 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): The game default applies: teams of up to 8; v2631 (Protocol): Protocol 2631: join only if your game matches that version; cs156658 (Build): This server reports build 156658; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, the game's default; $r? (Region code): The region code is unset. Player numbers now, queue size and world creation time sit in the tags as well, shown at the top of this page.
Getting in
How do I join Africa?
The console is behind F1 in Rust: enter client.connect 198.73.57.173:28015 there. Or join on this page with Launch Rust, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.