Online199.115.72.20:10000checked 14m ago
Project NOVA
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
daily · 1 is bestTop 58% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 22d 20h. 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 2, 1 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 3 Oct, 22:39 UTC9d ago | 2 | – | running | 0 |
| Wed 30 Sep, 22:22 UTC12d ago | 1 | halved by day 1 | 3 days | 0 |
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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from the figures on this pageRules and settings
What configuration does Project NOVA use?
The name of Project NOVA does not state a gather rate. The group limit is the game's default of 8 players. The server runs pve, no combat against other players. The server browser lists it under Modded, because plugins or settings alter the game. Plugins: Carbon. Vanilla is its own description: the standard Facepunch version, without modifications to rates, kits or rules. VAC is on, Valve's anti-cheat.
What is the map on Project NOVA?
A procedural map of size 4,500 is what Project NOVA runs, generated by the game with seed 1. The map is identical for the same size and seed, so it can be viewed on RustMaps from this page. The name of its map is: Custom Map.
Tags and filters
Where can Project NOVA be found in Rust Player Count lists and filters?
The Rust Player Count lists that Project NOVA fits are: Modded Rust servers and Rust PvE servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Vanilla and Modded; Game mode: PvE; Server tag: Monthly ^m, Vanilla ^v, PvE ^p, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.
What is the meaning of the tags on Project NOVA?
These are the tags Project NOVA publishes for the game's server browser: gmvanilla (Game mode): Unmodified survival gameplay; mp40 (Max players): Capacity: 40 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, which is what the game sets by default; v2634 (Protocol): Joining requires the same protocol: 2634; cs166652 (Build): The game build is 166652; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard one; $r? (Region code): A region code is not present; ^m (Monthly): Expect one wipe per month, alongside the forced wipe from Facepunch; ^v (Vanilla): The standard Facepunch version, without modifications to rates, kits or rules; ^p (PvE): The danger comes from the world, not from other players; ^z (Modded): The Modded category: plugins or configuration change gameplay; ^y (Carbon): It uses Carbon for plugins. You will also find its current players, its queue and its world creation time in the tags, displayed at the top of this page.
Player count
How full is Project NOVA?
With 40 slots, Project NOVA has 0 players at the moment. The seven-day average is 0 players, with a peak of 1.
What position does Project NOVA hold among Rust servers?
Over the last seven days, Project NOVA is #12,859 for player hours, placing it in the top 58% of ranked servers.
About the server
How reliable is Project NOVA, and is it online?
You can find Project NOVA online at the moment. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 9 days 21 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, it was online for 168 of 168 hours, a 100% uptime. Rust Player Count recorded it for the first time on 13 September 2026.
What is the Rust version for Project NOVA?
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652 on Linux is what Project NOVA uses. The protocol has to match for you to join, but Steam updates it without any action from you.
What is the location of Project NOVA?
A region is not published by Project NOVA. Rust Player Count displays the location a server claims, not the physical location of the machine. You can reach it at 199.115.72.20:10000.
Is Project NOVA lag-free?
The server ran at an average of 225 fps over the last 48 hours, never falling below 177. The maximum number of entities it carried was 149,023, which includes buildings, deployables and everything else. At its highest, it used 6,383 MB of memory. Lag, as players experience it, is caused by low fps and increasing entities.
Wipe information
What should you expect on Project NOVA during a wipe?
Recent wipes saw an average peak of 2 players. The latest wipe saw its biggest crowd 1 hours in. Half that peak was maintained until the next wipe in 0% of recent wipes. If not, the crowd went below half by day 1.
When does Project NOVA wipe?
The only wipes for Project NOVA are monthly, tied to the force wipe. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe arrives as its next wipe, wiping all Rust servers. It has been running its current world for 9 days 23 hours. Its tags declare wipes on a monthly schedule.
How to join
What steps are needed to join Project NOVA?
To get in, press F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 199.115.72.20:10000. You can also click Launch Rust here, which opens the game through Steam and brings you onto the server.
Server tags
what each one meansPublished as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^z,^y,^p,^m,^v,gmvanilla,cs166652,ts8
Game
gmvanilla
mp40
ts8
v2634
cs166652
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Difficulty
^v
Gameplay
^p
Mods and access
^z
^y
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.