Element card · group Community · atomic number 15,327, its rank
Africa
Online 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 best
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
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 wipesQuick answers
from the figures on this pageServer setup
What map is in play on Africa?
Africa runs a procedural map of size 4,250 with seed 1104; the game generates it. You can view it on RustMaps from this page, since matching size and seed produce the same map.
What settings and rules apply on Africa?
Nothing in the name of Africa gives a gather rate. With no change from the default, groups can hold up to 8 players. survival is the game mode, raiding, building and gathering: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. It appears under Community in the server browser. Anti-cheat is on: Valve's VAC.
About the server
Which location is Africa based in?
No region tag is published by Africa; its name, though, points to Africa. The location shown is the one a server states; Rust Data Lab does not check where the machine actually stands. Connect at 198.73.57.173:28015.
Which Rust version is Africa on?
On Windows, Africa is running Rust network protocol 2631 and build 156658. The protocol must match for you to join; Steam will update your game.
How dependable is Africa for staying online?
At the moment, Africa is online. About 10 days 23 hours ago is when it last restarted, based on its uptime. For the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, giving 99% uptime. It first appeared to Rust Data Lab on 13 September 2026.
Does Africa hold a steady performance?
Server fps averaged 88 over the last 48 hours, with 61 as the lowest. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to as many as 100,086 entities. Up to 4,926 MB of memory was used. Players feel lag when fps is low and the entity count climbs.
Wipe days
What is the wiping pattern on Africa?
Too few wipes are on record for Africa to reveal a rhythm. The next monthly force wipe, which wipes all Rust servers, is scheduled for Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. The world it is running now dates from 117 days 5 hours ago.
Tags, lists
Which meanings sit behind the tags on Africa?
gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival is the game here; mp30 (Max players): It has 30 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the game's default: 8 per team; v2631 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2631, so your game needs the same version; cs156658 (Build): It runs build 156658; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust; $r? (Region code): The region field is left blank: that is the tag list Africa publishes, and the game's server browser reads it. Current players, the queue and the world's creation time sit in the tags too, shown at the top of this page.
Which Rust Data Lab filters and lists does Africa appear in?
These themed Rust Data Lab lists carry Africa: Rust community servers, measured. Applying these filters on the server list returns it: Region: Africa; Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
Population
What position does Africa hold among Rust servers?
The seven-day player-hours table has Africa at #15,327, in the top 69% of ranked servers.
How full is Africa right now?
At the moment Africa has 0 of its 30 slots filled. Over seven days the mean player count is 0.
How to join
What steps get you onto Africa?
Open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 198.73.57.173:28015. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same job through Steam.