Rust Player Count
83,846 playing now

Offline89.180.237.33:28015checked 7d ago

Nova

Players now 0/ 20 0% full
7-day average 0 peak 1
Rank #15,613 top 70%
Last wipe 7d ago no schedule published
Next wipe – too few wipes seen yet

Players

No hourly history yet.

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

This server has not answered a direct query in the last 48 hours.

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

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k6 Oct8 Oct9 Oct11 Oct12 Oct14 Oct

Top 70% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Wipe schedule

too few wipes seen yet

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

Wipe-day peak 1 players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

00.250.50.751+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

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

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Tue 6 Oct, 19:55 UTC7d ago 1 – running 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.

Similar servers

the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes
Rustoria.co - EU East LongEU · groups of 12+ · monthly · 399 on average 551/ 600
Rusty Moose |EU Monthly|EU · groups of 12+ · monthly · 342 on average 422/ 450
Rusty Moose |US Monthly|NA · groups of 12+ · monthly · 333 on average 208/ 225
Rustoria.co - EU LongEU · groups of 14+ · monthly · 323 on average 404/ 400
Rustoria.co - EU MainEU · groups of 16+ · weekly · 298 on average 43/ 250
Rustafied.com - EU Long - LargeEU · groups of 16+ · monthly · 274 on average 352/ 425

Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Settings and map

What configuration does Nova use?

The name of Nova does not state a gather rate. Groups are capped at 8 players, the default in the game. survival is the game mode, gather, build, raid: the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. It appears in the Community section of the server browser as a community server. Anti-cheat VAC from Valve is off.

What is the map on Nova?

A procedural map is what Nova runs, generated by the game.

Tags, lists and filters

Where can Nova be found in Rust Player Count lists and filters?

The Rust Player Count lists that Nova fits are: Best Rust PvE servers. You can find it on the server list using these filters: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

What is the meaning of the tags on Nova?

These are the tags Nova publishes for the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): The usual Rust survival experience; mp20 (Max players): Capacity: 20 slots; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, which is what the game sets by default; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version needs to be on protocol 2634 to connect; cs166652 (Build): It runs on game build 166652; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard one; $r? (Region code): The region code field is empty. At the top of this page, its tags show its current players, queue and world creation time as well.

Player numbers

How full is Nova?

Nova is offline at the moment; the last time it was seen was 7 days 15 hours ago. The seven-day average is 0 players, with a peak of 1.

How does Nova compare in server rankings?

Over the last seven days, Nova is #15,613 for player hours, placing it in the top 70% of ranked servers.

Server details

What is the uptime and reliability of Nova?

Nova is down at the moment and was last seen 7 days 15 hours ago. It was up 1% of the time over the last 7 full days, 2 of 168 hours. Rust Player Count recorded it for the first time on 6 October 2026.

What Rust version is used on Nova?

Linux hosts Nova, which runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652. The protocol has to match for you to join, but Steam updates it without any action from you.

What is the location of Nova?

There is no region published by Nova. The location shown by Rust Player Count is the one a server provides; it does not verify where the machine actually is. It is located at 89.180.237.33:28015.

Wipe information

What should you expect on Nova during a wipe?

The average busiest point in recent wipes reached 1 players. 1 hours after the wipe, the crowd on the latest wipe was at its highest.

What wipe pattern does Nova follow?

With so few of Nova's wipes on record, its rhythm remains unclear. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the next monthly force wipe arrives, wiping every Rust server. The present world dates from 7 days 20 hours ago.

Join the server

What is the process to join Nova?

Joining is done by opening the console (F1) and running client.connect 89.180.237.33:28015. 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 mp20,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166652,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode The usual Rust survival experience.
mp20
Max players Capacity: 20 slots.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team, which is what the game sets by default.
v2634
Protocol Your game version needs to be on protocol 2634 to connect.
cs166652
Build It runs on game build 166652.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, Rust's standard one.
$r?
Region code The region code field is empty.

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.