LiveLive coverage · AF
The count
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Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
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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.
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Top 12% of all ranked servers, top 17% in AF. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Coming up · wipe schedule
force wipes only
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 3h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 13, 17 hours in.
The current map
Wednesday 7 October 2026, 01:11 UTC
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 18:00 UTC FW
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.
At their busiest, its recent wipes averaged 15 players. 17 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 100% of its recent wipes.
Nothing wipes ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA but the force wipe, once a month. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC brings the force wipe, its next wipe and one that hits every Rust server. 27 days 21 hours have passed since this world was generated. The tags carry a monthly wipe schedule.
These are the Rust Live Stats lists ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA fits: Live Rust community servers and Vanilla Rust servers, live. Under the filters Region: Africa; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and Plugins, not modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly it appears on the server list.
gmvanilla (Game mode): This is vanilla survival; mp50 (Max players): Slots: 50; ts8 (Group limit): Team cap: 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): Join only if your game is on protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): Build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard the game uses; $r? (Region code): The server sets no region code; ^m (Monthly): It wipes with Facepunch's force wipe, once each month; ^v (Vanilla): It runs the game as Facepunch ships it: rates, kits and rules unchanged; ^o (Oxide): Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework, runs on this server; AF (Africa): Africa is the browser listing for this server: that is the tag list ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA publishes for the game's server browser. The current player count, the queue and the world's creation time also sit in the tags, shown at the top of this page.
ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA is carrying 0 players at the moment, with 50 slots in total. The seven-day average is 1 players, with a peak of 8. The busiest hour in the past 48 was 18:00 UTC, averaging 5 players.
Seven-day player hours place ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA at #2,723 overall, in the top 12% of ranked servers and #5 in Africa.
No gather rate appears in the name ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA. No custom limit is set, so groups hold the default 8 players. survival applies here, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. Community is its browser category. Oxide plugins are in use. Vanilla is its own label: it runs the game as Facepunch ships it: rates, kits and rules unchanged. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
A procedural map of 4,000 with seed 1179895132, generated by the game, runs on ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA. Same size, same seed, same map: RustMaps has it, reachable from this page.
The AF tag on ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA lists it in Africa. The location shown on Rust Live Stats is the one a server gives, not a lookup of the machine's position. You can reach it at 165.255.244.254:28015.
Server fps averaged 60 over the last 48 hours, with a low of 58. Entity count reached 105,021: buildings, deployables and the rest of the world. Memory use peaked at 4,195 MB. Lag, as players feel it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA runs. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
Right now ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA is online. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 6 days 16 hours ago. It was online for 167 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, or 99% of the time. Rust Live Stats has tracked it since 13 September 2026.
Use Launch Rust and join on this page to open Rust through Steam and connect, or start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 165.255.244.254:28015.
