Africa
Online 198.73.57.173:28015 checked 8m 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 72% 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
Quick answers
Tags and filters
Where does Africa appear in Rust Going Deep lists and filters?
These Rust Going Deep lists include Africa: Rust community servers, going deep. You can find it on the server list by these filters: Region: Africa; Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
How should you read the tags on Africa?
gmrust (Game mode): Survival, as standard Rust does it; mp30 (Max players): It holds 30 players; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2631 (Protocol): This server runs game protocol 2631, so your game must match that version to join; cs156658 (Build): This server runs build 156658; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the network layer Rust uses by default; $r? (Region code): No region is set — that is the tag list Africa puts out for the game's server browser. At the top of this page you will also find its current players, its queue and when its world was made — all from the tags.
About the server
Is Africa lag-free?
Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 87, and the lowest was 74. Buildings, deployables and all other world objects added up to as many as 100,034 entities. The top memory figure was 6,769 MB. Players experience lag when fps drops and entities climb.
Where can you find Africa?
There is no region tag on Africa, but the name hints at Africa. Where a server says it is, that is what Rust Going Deep shows — no lookup of the machine's real spot. The endpoint is 198.73.57.173:28015.
How reliable is Africa?
Right now Africa is online. According to its reported uptime, the last restart was about 18 days 23 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last full 7 days, 168 of 168 hours. 13 September 2026 is when Rust Going Deep first saw it.
What Rust version is Africa on?
On Windows, Africa runs Rust network protocol 2631 and build 156658. Steam handles the update; you just need your game on the matching protocol to join.
Wipe schedule
When does Africa wipe?
Africa's rhythm is unclear because not enough wipes are on record yet. The monthly force wipe hits every Rust server, and the next one is on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 105 days 22 hours is how long ago this world came into being.
Settings and map
What settings are in place on Africa?
Its name does not state a gather rate for Africa. The group limit is the game's default of 8 players. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, the standard game. PvP and raiding are enabled. The server browser lists it under Community, making it a community server. VAC is on: Valve's anti-cheat is active.
What's the map on Africa?
Africa uses a procedural map of size 4,250 with seed 1104, made by the game. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, since the same size and seed produce the same map.
Player count
How many players are on Africa?
Out of 30 slots, 0 are filled on Africa right now. Over the past week it has drawn 0 players on average.
What position does Africa hold in the server rankings?
For player hours in the last seven days, Africa ranks #15,826, within the top 72% of ranked servers.
How to join
How do you get into Africa?
Open Rust and press F1, then type client.connect 198.73.57.173:28015. Alternatively, click Launch Rust on this page to join via Steam.