Project NOVA
Online 199.115.72.20:10000 checked 9m ago
Players now
Live- Full
- 0%
- In queue
- 0
- Peak, 48 hours
- 0
- Peak, 7 days
- –
0% full
Rank
top 69%
7-day average
peak –
Last wipe
monthly schedule
Next wipe
Thu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
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 69% 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 7d 13h. The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 7d 13hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 35d 13hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW
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 UTC25d ago | 2 | – | running | 0 |
| Wed 30 Sep, 22:22 UTC28d 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.
Similar servers
the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes- 1 39/ 300
- 2 36/ 200
- 3 32/ 200
- 4 36/ 100
- 5 8/ 200
- 6 37/ 100
Quick answers
from the figures on this pageServer
Is Project NOVA online, and how reliable is it?
Project NOVA is up and taking players now. Its reported uptime points to a restart roughly 6 days 5 hours ago. Over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online: 99%. Rust Dashboard logged it for the first time on 13 September 2026.
Which version of Rust does Project NOVA run?
Project NOVA runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652, and Linux is the system under it. You need the same protocol as the server to join. Steam updates your game for you.
Where is Project NOVA located?
There is no region on Project NOVA. Rust Dashboard takes the location a server gives; the machine's real position is not checked. 199.115.72.20:10000 is where it lives.
Does Project NOVA run smoothly?
Server fps averaged 213 over the last 48 hours and never dropped below 150. Buildings, deployables and everything else added up to a peak of 149,181 entities. It drew as much as 5,520 MB of memory at peak. When fps is low and entities keep piling up, players notice it as lag.
Tags, lists
Which Rust Dashboard lists and filters include Project NOVA?
The Rust Dashboard lists that carry Project NOVA are: Modded Rust servers, live now and Rust PvE servers. You'll find it under these filters 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.
What do the server tags on Project NOVA mean?
These are the tags Project NOVA publishes, read by the game's server browser: gmvanilla (Game mode): This server plays vanilla survival; mp40 (Max players): It holds 40 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams are capped at 8, the default the game ships with; v2634 (Protocol): Your game needs to be on the same version, protocol 2634, to get in; cs166652 (Build): This one runs game build 166652; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): This server sets no region code; ^m (Monthly): Facepunch's force wipe sets the day, and this server wipes once a month; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game, unaltered in rates, kits and rules; ^p (PvE): There is no player fighting: the world provides the danger; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings alter the game, so it appears under Modded; ^y (Carbon): This one runs Carbon for plugins. The tags also carry the current player count, the queue and when the world was made, all shown at the top of this page.
Population
How busy is Project NOVA?
As things stand, 0 players are on Project NOVA, which holds 40 slots. The mean over seven days is 0 players.
How does Project NOVA rank against other Rust servers?
Ranked #15,351 on the last seven days of player hours, Project NOVA is in the top 69% of all ranked servers.
Wipe days
What does wipe day look like on Project NOVA?
Its recent wipes averaged a peak of 2 players. Peak crowd on the latest wipe came 1 hours after it began. Above half that peak until the next wipe: that held in 0% of recent wipes. By day 1 it had fallen below half, where the crowd did not hold.
What is the wipe schedule on Project NOVA?
Wipes come once a month on Project NOVA, in step with the force wipe. Every Rust server wipes at the force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC, and that is its next wipe. The world it runs now dates from 25 days 6 hours ago. A monthly wipe schedule is set out in its tags.
Rules
What are the rules and settings on Project NOVA?
The name of Project NOVA gives no gather rate. The group limit is 8 players, which is the game's default. pve is the mode here, no PvP between players. The server browser lists it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. Carbon plugins run on it. By its own description it is vanilla: facepunch's game, unaltered in rates, kits and rules. VAC is on: that is Valve's anti-cheat.
Which map does Project NOVA run?
The game generates the procedural map on Project NOVA, size 4,500 with seed 1. This page links to RustMaps, where the map looks the same for its size and seed. The name of the map reads Custom Map.
Join
How do I join Project NOVA?
The console in Rust opens with F1, and client.connect 199.115.72.20:10000 goes in there. Launch Rust on this page is the other route, opening Rust through Steam to connect you.