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ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA

monthly wipes vanilla
Players now 6/ 50 12% full
7-day average 4 peak 17
Rank #1,598 top 7% · #1 in AF
Last wipe 13d ago monthly schedule
Next wipe 21d 5h Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW

Players

AveragePeak
0510152014:0023:0008:0018:0003:0012:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

02040608014:0023:0008:0018:0003:0012:00

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 best
RankRank in region
15001k1.5k2k20 Sep25 Sep30 Sep5 Oct10 Oct15 Oct

Top 7% of all ranked servers, top 3% in AF. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 21d 5h. The force wipe · high confidence

Usual gap 5.3 days between real wipes
Wipe-day peak 15 players, last three wipes
Crowd held 100% of its cycles kept half the crowd

Coming wipes

21d 5hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Wed 7 OctThu 1 Oct
05101520+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 13, 17 hours in.

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Wed 7 Oct, 01:11 UTC8d ago 13 – running 1
Thu 1 Oct, 18:00 UTC FW13d 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
Intoxicated ZA Vanilla 3 - 01 Oct - Fresh wipeAF · groups of 8+ · monthly · 50 on average 44/ 150
Voodoo ZAAF · groups of 8+ · monthly · 2 on average 1/ 100
Intoxicated ZA Vanilla 1 - Wipe in a few hoursAF · groups of 8+ · biweekly · 8 on average 4/ 100
CORDEX NO KOS, SOLO, DUO, TRIOAF · trio · monthly · 4 on average 6/ 100
KAKGENOEG NO KOS SOLO | DUO | TRIO zaAF · trio · monthly · 2 on average 2/ 50
Naked and Afraid NO KOS ZAAF · groups of 8+ · biweekly · 1 on average 0/ 100

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Settings and map

What are the server rules for ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA?

The name of ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA does not state a gather rate. The group limit is the game's default of 8 players. The server runs survival, gather, build, raid: the standard game. PvP and raiding are enabled. Under Community in the server browser, it is a community server. Its own label is vanilla: unmodified Rust: no changed rates, no kits, no extra rules. Anti-cheat VAC from Valve is on.

Which map is running on ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA?

A procedural map of size 4,000 is what ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA runs, generated by the game with seed 1179895132. You can see it on RustMaps from this page, because the same size and seed give the same map.

Tags, lists and filters

Where can ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA be found in Rust Player Count lists and filters?

The Rust Player Count lists that ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA fits are: Best Rust PvE servers and Vanilla Rust servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: Africa; Type: Vanilla, Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Monthly ^m and Vanilla ^v; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

What is the meaning of the tags on ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA?

The game's server browser reads these tags from ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA: gmvanilla (Game mode): Standard vanilla survival; mp50 (Max players): Capacity: 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default team cap: 8 players; v2634 (Protocol): Joining requires the same protocol: 2634; cs167781 (Build): Build number: 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the game's usual network protocol, and this server uses it; $r? (Region code): The region code field is empty; ^m (Monthly): Wipes occur monthly, at the same time as the force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Unmodified Rust: no changed rates, no kits, no extra rules; AF (Africa): It appears under Africa when browsing servers. The tags also include its current players, its queue and when its world was made, shown at the top of this page.

Population

What is the player count on ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA?

Right now, 6 players are on ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA, which has 50 slots. The average player count for the last seven days is 4, and the highest point was 17. In the past 48 hours, the peak activity occurred at 18:00 UTC, averaging 14 players.

What position does ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA hold among Rust servers?

For player hours in the last seven days, ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA is #1,598 overall, #1 in Africa, and in the top 7% of all ranked servers.

About the server

What is the uptime and reliability of ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA?

Right now, ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA is up. The uptime it gives suggests it restarted about 35 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours. 13 September 2026 is when Rust Player Count first saw it.

What is the Rust version for ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA?

Linux hosts ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA, which runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. The protocol has to match for you to join, but Steam updates it without any action from you.

What region does ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA serve?

In Africa, ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA lists itself with its AF tag. Rust Player Count displays the location a server claims, not the physical location of the machine. It is located at 165.255.244.254:28015.

What is the performance like on ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA?

Over the last 48 hours, the average server fps was 60, and it never dropped below 60. The maximum number of entities it carried was 109,719, which includes buildings, deployables and everything else. At its highest, it used 2,942 MB of memory. A climbing entity count and low fps are felt as lag by players.

Wipe days

What happens on ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA when a wipe occurs?

Across its recent wipes, the busiest times averaged 15 players. 17 hours after the wipe, the crowd on the latest wipe was at its highest. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 100% of its recent wipes.

How often does ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA wipe?

Monthly force wipes are the sole wipes on ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives as its next wipe, wiping all Rust servers. The world in play was created 13 days 19 hours ago. The tags show a wipe schedule set to monthly.

How to join

How can I connect to ServerZ Rust Monthly ZA?

Joining is done by opening the console (F1) and running client.connect 165.255.244.254:28015. Another way is the Launch Rust option on this page, which uses Steam to start Rust and put you in.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,^v,AF,gmvanilla,cs167781,ts8

Game

gmvanilla
Game mode Standard vanilla survival.
mp50
Max players Capacity: 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default team cap: 8 players.
v2634
Protocol Joining requires the same protocol: 2634.
cs167781
Build Build number: 167781.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the game's usual network protocol, and this server uses it.
$r?
Region code The region code field is empty.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Wipes occur monthly, at the same time as the force wipe.

Difficulty

^v
Vanilla Unmodified Rust: no changed rates, no kits, no extra rules.

Region

AF
Africa It appears under Africa when browsing servers.

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.