Africa
Online 198.73.57.173:28015 checked 10m ago
Li2Players
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Li3Server 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.
Li4Rank
daily · 1 is bestTop 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Bx1Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
Bx2Wipes
newest first · each peak a flare-up, on one √ span to its biggest| 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.
Bx6Similar servers
the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipesLogQuick answers
from the figures on this pageWipe schedule
What is the wipe schedule on Africa?
Africa has too few wipes on record yet for its rhythm to show. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the next monthly force wipe, when every Rust server wipes. 117 days 12 hours ago the server made the world it is on now.
Population
How busy is Africa?
Of 30 slots on Africa, 0 are in use right now. Averaged over the past week: 0 players.
How does Africa rank against other Rust servers?
The top 69% of ranked servers includes Africa, at #15,262 for player hours over the last seven days.
Map and rules
Which map does Africa run?
Africa runs a procedural map of size 4,250 with seed 1104, generated by the game. From this page you can view the map on RustMaps, since the same size and seed give the same map.
What are the rules and settings on Africa?
The name Africa does not specify a gather rate. Groups can contain up to 8 players, the default in the game. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. Combat between players and raiding are both possible. In the server browser it appears under Community, as a community server. VAC is on, which is Valve's anti-cheat.
Location and uptime
Which version of Rust does Africa run?
The build on Africa is Rust network protocol 2631 and build 156658, running on Windows. To join, your game must match the protocol; Steam handles the update.
Is Africa online, and how reliable is it?
Online now: Africa. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 11 days 6 hours ago. It was up 143 of 168 hours across the last 7 full days, or 85% of the time. It first appears in Rust Heatmap records on 13 September 2026.
Where is Africa located?
No region tag comes from Africa, but its name points to Africa. A server says where it is, and Rust Heatmap shows that. The machine's actual location is not looked up. To connect, use 198.73.57.173:28015.
Does Africa run smoothly?
It averaged 85 server fps over the last 48 hours, with a low of 61. Buildings, deployables and the rest of the world came to as much as 100,086 entities. At its peak it held 4,926 MB of memory. Lag, as players experience it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Tags
Which Rust Heatmap lists and filters include Africa?
These Rust Heatmap lists include Africa: Best Rust community servers. You will find it under these filters on the server list: 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 publishes for the game's server browser to read: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust form; mp30 (Max players): The slot count is 30; ts8 (Group limit): The game default applies: 8 per team at most; v2631 (Protocol): Your game must match protocol 2631 to get in; cs156658 (Build): The game build here is 156658; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code is set. Players now, the queue and the world's creation time sit in the tags as well and appear at the top of this page.
Connect
How do I join Africa?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console, then enter client.connect 198.73.57.173:28015. Alternatively, join from this page with Launch Rust: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.