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LowBlowZA

Online AF 41.193.57.20:28004 checked 12m ago

monthly wipes moddedoxide
players now0of 40 slots
7-day average1peak 4
rank#3,553top 16% · #10 in AF
last wipe · restocked7d agomonthly schedule
next wipe · restock22d 23hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW

Players

AveragePeak
0123420:0005:0014:0000:0009:0018:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

010020030040020:0005:0014:0000:0009:0018:00

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 4 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k4 Oct6 Oct8 Oct9 Oct11 Oct13 Oct

Top 16% of all ranked servers, top 29% 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 22d 23h. The force wipe · high confidence

0.8 daysusual gapbetween real wipes
2wipe-day peakplayers, last three wipes

Coming wipes

  1. 22d 23hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Mon 5 OctSun 4 Oct
00.511.52+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 1 hours in.

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Mon 5 Oct, 16:22 UTC8d ago 2 – running 0
Sun 4 Oct, 21:09 UTC8d ago 2 – 0.8 days 2

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.

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Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Server tags

How should you read the tags on LowBlowZA?

The server browser reads these tags that LowBlowZA publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Rust survival, the standard way; mp40 (Max players): The cap is 40; ts8 (Group limit): The default cap is 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): You need protocol 2634 to join, matching your game version; cs167398 (Build): Game build: 167398; ptrak (Networking): Network runs on RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): No region code is set; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, tied to the Facepunch force wipe; ^o (Oxide): It uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): Modded is its category, with plugins or settings changing the game; AF (Africa): In the server browser it sits under Africa. You will find its live player count, queue and world creation time in the tags too, displayed at the top here.

On Rust Vending Machine, which lists and filters can you find LowBlowZA in?

The Rust Vending Machine lists that feature LowBlowZA are: Modded Rust servers. It shows under these filters on the server list: Region: Africa; Type: Modded; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

Settings and rules

What map is in play on LowBlowZA?

The map on LowBlowZA is procedural, size 3,000 with seed 55847, generated by the game. You can view it on RustMaps from this page, since the same size and seed give the same map.

Which settings and rules apply on LowBlowZA?

There is no gather rate in the name LowBlowZA. 8 players is the default group size, and that is the cap here. survival is the game mode, gather, build, raid: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Plugins or settings change the game, so it is listed under Modded. The plugins it runs number Oxide. The server has VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, switched on.

About the server

Where can you find LowBlowZA?

LowBlowZA shows the AF tag and lists in Africa. Rust Vending Machine reports the location a server claims, not where the machine actually sits. You can reach it at 41.193.57.20:28004.

What is the uptime like on LowBlowZA?

You can grab LowBlowZA: it is online as we speak. Its uptime figure puts the last restart at roughly 2 days 9 hours ago. Over 7 full days, the shelves were stocked for 168 of 168 hours (100%). The first sighting of it on Rust Vending Machine was 4 October 2026.

What is the performance like on LowBlowZA?

Server fps over the last 48 hours averaged 207 and never dropped below 174. At its peak it held 58,079 entities, counting buildings, deployables and all else in the world. At most it drew 3,008 MB of memory. The feel of lag traces back to fps dropping and entities piling up.

What Rust version does LowBlowZA run?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167398 on Linux is what powers LowBlowZA. The protocol has to line up on your side to join, and Steam does the updating.

Live players

Where does LowBlowZA sit in the rankings?

For player hours over the last seven days, LowBlowZA is #3,553 across all ranked servers, in the top 16%, and #10 in Africa.

Is LowBlowZA busy at the moment?

You will find 0 players filling 40 slots in LowBlowZA as things stand. The seven-day average stands at 1 players, peaking at 4. Its busiest point in the last 48 hours was 15:00 UTC, averaging 3 players.

Wipe schedule

How often does LowBlowZA wipe?

Only the monthly force wipe applies at LowBlowZA. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives, its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 7 days 23 hours ago it made the world it is using now. Its tags state a wipe each month.

What can you expect on LowBlowZA when wipe day comes?

At their busiest, its recent wipes averaged 2 players. On the latest wipe, 1 hours after it began, the crowd peaked.

Join the server

What is the way to join LowBlowZA?

Open Rust and press F1 for the console, then type client.connect 41.193.57.20:28004. Or use the Launch Rust button here to open the game through Steam and connect. Head to https://discord.com/invite/etAtqFcp4 for its website.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^m,AF,gmrust,cs167398,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Rust survival, the standard way.
mp40
Max players The cap is 40.
ts8
Group limit The default cap is 8 per team.
v2634
Protocol You need protocol 2634 to join, matching your game version.
cs167398
Build Game build: 167398.
ptrak
Networking Network runs on RakNet, the game's standard.
$r?
Region code No region code is set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly Monthly wipes, tied to the Facepunch force wipe.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide It uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins.
^z
Modded Modded is its category, with plugins or settings changing the game.

Region

AF
Africa In the server browser it sits under Africa.

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.