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Live readings Servers11,814 Players72,000 Populated3,646 Fresh wipes · 3h206 Sampled every 5 min

Element card · group Community · atomic number 14,577, its rank

Nova

Offline 89.180.237.33:28015 checked 21d ago

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Atomic mass · players now 1/ 20 5% full Room to join
7-day average0peak –
Rank · atomic number#14,577top 66%
Last wipe22d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes 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
No hourly history yet.

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
15k10k15k20k7 Oct8 Oct10 Oct11 Oct13 Oct14 Oct

Top 66% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

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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 peak1players, 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, 0 hours in.

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Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Wed 7 Oct, 03:09 UTC22d 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.

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Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Map and rules

What map is in play on Nova?

Generated by the game, the map on Nova is procedural.

How is Nova configured, and what rules apply?

No gather rate appears in the name of Nova. Eight players per group is the limit, the game's default. Play runs as survival, raiding, building and gathering: the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. The server browser lists it under Community. VAC is off, Valve's anti-cheat.

Server facts

In what location does Nova sit?

No region is published by Nova. Rust Data Lab shows a server's stated location, not a verified position of the machine. Connect at 89.180.237.33:28015.

On what Rust version does Nova operate?

On Linux, Nova is running Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652. The protocol must match for you to join; Steam will update your game.

How dependable is Nova for staying online?

Right now Nova is offline, with its last appearance 21 days 19 hours ago. For the last 7 full days, 0 of 168 hours were online, giving 0% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Data Lab was on 7 October 2026.

Wipe days

How often does a wipe happen on Nova, and at what time?

The record holds too few of Nova's wipes to show its rhythm. The monthly force wipe resets every Rust server; it next occurs on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Counting back, the current world began 22 days 10 hours ago.

On Nova, what happens when wipe day arrives?

Recent wipes on average reached 1 players at their busiest. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd peaked.

Lists and tags

Which meanings sit behind the tags on Nova?

gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival is the game here; mp20 (Max players): Player slots: 20; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the game's default: 8 per team; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634 is required; join only if your game matches it; cs166652 (Build): It runs build 166652; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust; $r? (Region code): The region field is left blank: that is the tag list Nova publishes, and the game's server browser reads it. The tags carry more as well: current players, the queue and when the world was made, all shown at the top of this page.

Which Rust Data Lab filters and lists does Nova appear in?

These themed Rust Data Lab lists carry Nova: Rust community servers, measured. You can find it on the server list by applying these filters: Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Group limit: 5 or more.

Population

Against other Rust servers, where does Nova place?

The seven-day player-hours table has Nova at #14,577, in the top 66% of ranked servers.

How many players does Nova have at the moment?

The last recorded sighting of Nova was 21 days 19 hours ago, and it is offline now.

How to join

How can you connect to Nova?

Open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 89.180.237.33:28015. The Launch Rust button on this page does the same job through Steam.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp20,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166652,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Standard Rust survival is the game here.
mp20
Max players Player slots: 20.
ts8
Group limit This uses the game's default: 8 per team.
v2634
Protocol Protocol 2634 is required; join only if your game matches it.
cs166652
Build It runs build 166652.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer here, as standard in Rust.
$r?
Region code The region field is left blank.

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.