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Live readings Servers11,902 Players104,075 Populated4,038 Fresh wipes · 3h426 Sampled every 5 min

Element card · group Modded · atomic number 15,310, its rank

nova Testing Grounds

Online 220.233.43.246:28015 checked 11m ago

moddedcarbon
Join the experiment
Atomic mass · players now 0/ 5 0% full Room to join
7-day average0peak –
Rank · atomic number#15,310top 69%
Last wipe46d agono schedule published
Next wipe–no wipe seen yet
Result 01

Players

Method
Every five minutes for the last two hours, from the Steam server list; hourly average and peak over 48 hours; daily average and peak over 90 days. UTC. Dashed lines are its wipes and the force wipes.
Result
AveragePeak
0123419:0004:0013:0023:0008:0017:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Result 02

Server performance

Method
Asked of the server itself, hour by hour and day by day: its frame rate, the entities in its world and the memory it holds.
Result
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.

Result 03

Rank

Result

daily · 1 is best

RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k20 Sep24 Sep18 Oct21 Oct25 Oct29 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Reaction kinetics

Wipe schedule

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

Reaction log

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
No wipe seen yet.

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 setup

What map is in play on nova Testing Grounds?

Generated by the game, the map on nova Testing Grounds is procedural.

What rules has nova Testing Grounds set, and what settings are in force?

The name of nova Testing Grounds carries no gather rate. Eight players per group is the limit, the game's default. survival is the game mode, raiding, building and gathering: the standard game. Raids and player fights are part of play here. In the server browser it sits under Modded: the game is changed by plugins or settings. Plugins in use: Carbon. Anti-cheat is off: Valve's VAC.

Server facts

In what location does nova Testing Grounds sit?

There is no region on record for nova Testing Grounds. What a server states is what Rust Data Lab shows for location; no lookup of the machine's whereabouts is made. 220.233.43.246:28015 is the address it uses.

Which Rust version is nova Testing Grounds on?

On Linux, nova Testing Grounds is running Rust network protocol 2633 and build 163794. Joining requires the same protocol on your game; Steam takes care of updating it.

How dependable is nova Testing Grounds for staying online?

At the moment, nova Testing Grounds is online. It was online for 167 of 168 hours in the last 7 full days, which is 99% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Data Lab was on 13 September 2026.

Wipe schedule

How often does a wipe happen on nova Testing Grounds, and at what time?

Too few wipes are on record for nova Testing Grounds to reveal a rhythm. A monthly force wipe happens on every Rust server, and the next one falls on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Counting back, the current world began 46 days 14 hours ago.

Lists and tags

How should you read the tags on nova Testing Grounds?

These are the tags nova Testing Grounds makes public for the server browser to read: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust style; mp5 (Max players): 5 is the slot count; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team, the default the game ships with; v2633 (Protocol): Protocol 2633 is required; join only if your game matches it; cs163794 (Build): It runs build 163794; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game; $r? (Region code): The region field is left blank; ^z (Modded): Because plugins or settings change the game, it is filed under Modded; ^y (Carbon): Plugins run on Carbon. Also in the tags are the players on now, the queue length and the world's creation time, and you can see them at the top of this page.

Which Rust Data Lab filters and lists does nova Testing Grounds appear in?

These themed Rust Data Lab lists carry nova Testing Grounds: Modded Rust servers, measured. Applying these filters on the server list returns it: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more.

Population

Against other Rust servers, where does nova Testing Grounds place?

nova Testing Grounds sits at #15,310 for seven-day player hours, placing it in the top 69% of ranked servers.

How full is nova Testing Grounds right now?

Of 5 slots, 0 are taken on nova Testing Grounds right now. The past week gives an average of 0 players.

Connection

What is the way to join nova Testing Grounds?

In Rust, press F1 and enter client.connect 220.233.43.246:28015. Or click Launch Rust here to open Rust via Steam and connect automatically.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp5,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs163794,ts8,^z,^y

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust style.
mp5
Max players 5 is the slot count.
ts8
Group limit 8 per team, the default the game ships with.
v2633
Protocol Protocol 2633 is required; join only if your game matches it.
cs163794
Build It runs build 163794.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, standard in the game.
$r?
Region code The region field is left blank.

Mods and access

^z
Modded Because plugins or settings change the game, it is filed under Modded.
^y
Carbon Plugins run on Carbon.

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.