ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA
Online AF 165.255.244.254:28015 checked 12m ago
Vital stats
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
Top 13% of all ranked servers, top 19% in AF. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 6d 16h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 13, 17 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 7 Oct, 01:11 UTC23d ago | 13 | – | running | 1 |
| Thu 1 Oct, 18:00 UTC FW28d ago | 17 | held half | 5.3 days | 1 |
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
From the figures on this page.
Server tags
Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA?
These Rust Pop Watch lists include ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA: Community servers, by the numbers and Vanilla Rust servers, live. These are the filters that list it on the server list: 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.
What do the server tags on ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA mean?
The game's server browser picks up these tags from ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA: gmvanilla (Game mode): Survival in vanilla form; mp50 (Max players): It has 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default team size of 8 applies here; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must be on the same protocol version: 2635; cs168909 (Build): Game build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, which is the game's standard; $r? (Region code): Region code left blank; ^m (Monthly): Once a month it wipes, following Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here; AF (Africa): Its place in the server browser is under Africa. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.
Population
How does ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA rank against other Rust servers?
ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA takes #2,810 on seven-day player hours, a top 13% spot overall and #6 across Africa.
How many players are on ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA right now?
0 players are on ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA at the moment, out of 50 slots. Peak for the week was 8, against an average of 1 players. Look at 19:00 UTC: that was the busiest point of the last 48 hours, at 4 players on average.
Server facts
Is ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA online, and how reliable is it?
As of now, ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA is online. The uptime figure suggests it restarted roughly 7 days 3 hours ago. Out of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, it was online for 167, a 99% uptime. Rust Pop Watch's first record of it is 13 September 2026.
Does ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA run smoothly?
Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 60, and it never went below 58. At its peak it held 104,599 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. The highest memory usage was 4,195 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Where is ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA located?
With its AF tag, ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA lists itself in Africa. It is where a server says it is that Rust Pop Watch shows; the machine's actual location is not looked up. Connect at 165.255.244.254:28015.
Which Rust version is ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA on?
On Linux, ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA runs Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.
Wipe times
What happens on ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA when wipe day comes around?
Across its recent wipes, the busiest point averaged 15 players. 17 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 100% of its recent wipes.
What is the wipe schedule on ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA?
Wipes on ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA come once a month, alongside the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives: its next wipe, and one that hits every Rust server. Its current world has been live for 28 days 8 hours. Its tags commit to wipes each month.
The rules
Which map does ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA run?
A procedural map of 4,000 with seed 1179895132 is what ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA runs, made by the game. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map.
What are the rules and settings on ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA?
Nothing in the name tells you the gather rate on ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. the usual game of gathering, building and raiding: that is the survival mode. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Community is its listing in the server browser. The plugin count is Oxide. It labels itself vanilla, with this meaning: nothing is altered here: no changed rates, kits or rules, just the game as Facepunch ships it. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.
Join up
How do I join ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA?
Enter client.connect 165.255.244.254:28015 in the console after pressing F1 in Rust. Or use Launch Rust here to open Rust through Steam and connect automatically.