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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 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Coming up · wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
This server has not put up a new map since the desk started watching it.
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.
Africa's wipe history is too thin on record to show a rhythm. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the next monthly force wipe, and no Rust server is spared it. This world dates from 117 days 14 hours.
These are the Rust Live Stats lists Africa fits: Live Rust community servers. These filters on the server list bring it up: Region: Africa; Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.
These are the tags Africa makes public: gmrust (Game mode): Survival here follows standard Rust; mp30 (Max players): Slots: 30; ts8 (Group limit): Teams stop at 8, the default the game ships with; v2631 (Protocol): The server runs protocol 2631, so match that version to join; cs156658 (Build): This server runs game build 156658; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's usual network layer, carries this server; $r? (Region code): No region code is set here. Players now, queue length and world creation time are carried in the tags too, and appear at the top of this page.
Live now: 0 players on Africa, out of 30 slots. Averaged over seven days: 0 players.
On player hours for the past seven days, Africa sits at #15,269, inside the top 69% of ranked servers.
Nothing in the name of Africa states a gather rate. The default applies: 8 players to a group. survival is the mode, with the standard game: gather, build, raid. You can raid and fight other players. Community is its browser category. VAC is enabled: Valve's anti-cheat.
Size 4,250, seed 1104: that is the procedural map the game generates for Africa. Same size, same seed, same map: RustMaps has it, reachable from this page.
No region tag is published, though the name of Africa points to Africa. A server's stated location is what Rust Live Stats shows; the machine's actual position is not looked up. Connect to 198.73.57.173:28015.
The average server fps was 85 over the last 48 hours; the lowest was 61. It supported up to 100,086 entities, covering buildings, deployables and all other objects. Up to 4,979 MB of memory was used. Lag, as players feel it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Rust network protocol 2631 and build 156658 on Windows is what Africa runs. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
Right now Africa is online. The uptime it reports puts the last restart at about 11 days 9 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 198.73.57.173:28015.