Africa
Online 198.73.57.173:28015 checked 9m ago
Players now
Live- Full
- 0%
- In queue
- 0
- Peak, 48 hours
- 0
- Peak, 7 days
- –
0% full
Rank
top 69%
7-day average
peak –
Last wipe
no schedule published
Next wipe
no wipe seen yet
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 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
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
the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes- 1 16/ 150
- 2 37/ 100
- 3 1/ 50
- 4 1/ 100
- 5 2/ 50
- 6 1/ 100
Quick answers
from the figures on this pageServer
Is Africa online, and how reliable is it?
Right now Africa is running. About 10 days 22 hours ago it restarted, judging by the uptime figure it gives. The last 7 full days show 99% uptime, with 167 hours up out of 168. Rust Dashboard logged it for the first time on 13 September 2026.
Which version of Rust does Africa run?
Africa runs Rust network protocol 2631 and build 156658, and Windows is the system under it. Steam keeps your game updated, so it will be on the same protocol and able to join.
Where is Africa located?
There is no region tag on Africa, but the name suggests Africa. The location shown at Rust Dashboard is the one the server states; no lookup of the machine's position happens. 198.73.57.173:28015 is where it lives.
Does Africa run smoothly?
Server fps averaged 88 over the last 48 hours and never dropped below 61. Buildings, deployables and everything else added up to a peak of 100,086 entities. At its highest, it took 4,926 MB of memory. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.
Tags
Which Rust Dashboard lists and filters include Africa?
You'll find Africa on these themed lists at Rust Dashboard: Best Rust community servers. These filters bring it up 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, read by the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival is the game mode; mp30 (Max players): 30 is the slot count; ts8 (Group limit): This is the game's own limit of 8 per team; v2631 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2631; your build has to match it to join; cs156658 (Build): This one runs game build 156658; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): The region code is blank. Current players, queue length and world creation time sit in the tags as well, and appear at the top of this page.
Player counts
How busy is Africa?
As things stand, 0 players are on Africa, which holds 30 slots. The mean over seven days is 0 players.
How does Africa rank against other Rust servers?
Player hours over seven days put Africa at #15,341, in the top 69% of all ranked servers.
Wipe schedule
What is the wipe schedule on Africa?
The record holds too few of Africa's wipes to show a rhythm. The monthly force wipe applies to every Rust server, and the next one falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 117 days 4 hours ago the current world was made.
Map and rules
What are the rules and settings on Africa?
The name of Africa gives no gather rate. The group limit is 8 players, which is the game's default. It runs survival, the usual game, where you gather, build and raid. You can fight other players and raid their bases. The server browser lists it under Community. The anti-cheat from Valve, VAC, is active.
Which map does Africa run?
Africa runs a procedural map of size 4,250 with seed 1104, made by the game. This page links to RustMaps, where the map looks the same for its size and seed.
Connect
How do I join Africa?
The console in Rust opens with F1, and client.connect 198.73.57.173:28015 goes in there. Launch Rust on this page is the other route, opening Rust through Steam to connect you.