The server's own banner, as it publishes it
Exhibit no. 2,724Acc. 2026.2724
ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA
Rust server, AF · in the archive since 13 September 2026
Online AF 165.255.244.254:28015 checked 8m ago
The timeline
Wipes
Every wipe on record as a dated marker, the force wipes among them, and the wipes expected next. Newest first in the record below.
13 Sep Now 1 Oct18:00 · FW 7 Oct01:11 5 Nov19:00 · FW 3 Dec19:00 · FW
a wipe on recordthe monthly force wipeexpectednow, 29 Oct 2026, 13:45 UTCAll times UTC.
The record of each wipe
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Wed 7 Oct 202601:11 UTC22d ago
- Peak
- 13
- Crowd
- –
- Lasted
- running
- Players before
- 1
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Thu 1 Oct 202618:00 UTC FW27d ago
- Peak
- 17
- Crowd
- held half
- Lasted
- 5.3 days
- Players before
- 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.
The rhythm
Wipe schedule
force wipes only
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 5h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 7d 5hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 35d 5hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
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.
The record
Population, performance and rank
Kept in folders: players every five minutes, every hour and every day; the server answering for itself; its rank among every server ranked.
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 12% of all ranked servers, top 20% in AF. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Related exhibits
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Visitors' questions about this exhibit
Quick answers
Answered from the figures on this page.
Tags, lists
What do the server tags on ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA mean?
You can see the tags ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA publishes, read by the game's server browser: gmvanilla (Game mode): The mode here is vanilla survival; mp50 (Max players): The server holds 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default the game ships; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game has to be on protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): This server runs game build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network layer, as standard for the game; $r? (Region code): The server has no region code; ^m (Monthly): On a monthly schedule the server wipes with Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Nothing is changed from Facepunch's release: no altered rates, no kits, no extra rules; ^o (Oxide): Plugins run through Oxide (uMod); AF (Africa): Africa is the region the server browser files it under. Shown at the top of this page are the current players, the queue and the world's age, also taken from the tags.
Which Rust Server History lists and filters include ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA?
The Rust Server History lists that feature ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA are: Rust community servers and The vanilla Rust servers on record. It appears under these filters 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.
Server record
Does ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA run smoothly?
Across the last 48 hours it averaged 60 server fps; the low was 58. As many as 105,021 entities were in the world: buildings, deployables and the rest. The highest memory use was 4,195 MB. Players feel lag when fps drop and the entity count climbs.
Which version of Rust does ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA run?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the build ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA runs, on Linux. Steam updates your game for you; joining needs the same protocol.
Is ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA online, and how reliable is it?
The live count shows ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA online right now. About 6 days 14 hours ago is when it last restarted, judged by the uptime it reports. It was up for 167 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, 99% of the time. First seen by Rust Server History on 13 September 2026.
Where is ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA located?
In Africa, ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA lists itself with its AF tag. Where a server says it is is shown on Rust Server History; where the machine stands is not looked up. You will find it at 165.255.244.254:28015.
Wipe record
What does wipe day look like on ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA?
15 players on average was the busiest its recent wipes drew. At 17 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak. Half that peak was held until the next wipe in 100% of its recent wipes.
What is the wipe schedule on ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA?
Once a month ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA wipes, with the force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, which is its next wipe. 27 days 19 hours ago its current world was made. The tags list a monthly wipe schedule.
Population
How does ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA rank against other Rust servers?
ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA takes #6 in Africa on seven-day player hours, with #2,724 overall and a place in the top 12% of all ranked servers.
How busy is ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA?
Against 50 slots, ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA records 0 players right now. Stored history gives a seven-day average of 1 players and a peak of 8. An average of 5 players at 18:00 UTC made that the busiest hour of the last 48.
Rules and settings
What are the rules and settings on ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA?
You will not find a gather rate in the name of ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA. No group may exceed 8 players, the default set by the game. Under game mode, the entry reads survival, gathering, building and raiding: the standard game. PvP and raiding are enabled. Under Community in the server browser, this community server is listed. Plugins in use: Oxide. The server applies the label vanilla: nothing is changed from Facepunch's release: no altered rates, no kits, no extra rules. VAC from Valve is switched on.
Which map does ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA run?
A procedural map of size 4,000 with seed 1179895132 is what ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA runs, generated by the game. From this page you can view the map on RustMaps: the same size and seed give the same map.
How to join
How do I join ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA?
Enter client.connect 165.255.244.254:28015 in the console, opened with F1 in Rust. Launch Rust and join on this page also works: it opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
The label explained
Server tags
What each tag this server publishes means.
Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,^v,AF,gmvanilla,cs168909,ts8,^o
Game
gmvanilla
mp50
ts8
v2635
cs168909
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Difficulty
^v
Mods and access
^o
Region
AF
Players now (cp), the queue (qp) and the wipe time (born) are in the tag string too; they change every few minutes and are shown at the top of the page. Flag meanings are Facepunch's.