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The count
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Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
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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.
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Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Coming up · wipe schedule
force wipes only
Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 7d 11h. The force wipe · high confidence
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 2, 1 hours in.
The current map
Saturday 3 October 2026, 22:39 UTC
Wipe
Wednesday 30 September 2026, 22:22 UTC
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.
Recent wipes on this server averaged a peak of 2 players at their busiest. 1 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. In the other cases it dropped under half by day 1.
Nothing wipes Project NOVA but the force wipe, once a month. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC brings the force wipe, its next wipe and one that hits every Rust server. This world dates from 25 days 8 hours. Its tags give wipes as monthly.
The Rust Live Stats lists that include Project NOVA are Modded Rust servers live now and Rust PvE servers, live now. You will find it on the server list under 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.
The server browser reads gmvanilla (Game mode): The mode is vanilla survival; mp40 (Max players): 40 slots are available; ts8 (Group limit): 8 per team at most, the game's default setting; v2634 (Protocol): You need protocol 2634 on your game to get in; cs166652 (Build): Build: 166652; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's usual network layer, carries this server; $r? (Region code): No region code is set here; ^m (Monthly): It wipes with Facepunch's force wipe, once each month; ^v (Vanilla): No changed rates, kits or rules — this is the game as Facepunch ships it; ^p (PvE): PvE: players do not fight each other, and the world is the danger; ^z (Modded): Modded: plugins or changed settings alter the game; ^y (Carbon): Plugin framework: Carbon, which Project NOVA publishes. Also in the tags: players on now, the queue, and when the world was made. You will find them at the top of this page.
Live now: 0 players on Project NOVA, out of 40 slots. Averaged over seven days: 0 players.
Player hours over seven days put Project NOVA at #15,339, in the top 69% of all ranked servers.
The name Project NOVA carries no gather rate. No custom limit is set, so groups hold the default 8 players. pve is the mode, with no fighting other players. Plugins or settings change the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. Carbon plugins are in use. By its own label it is vanilla: no changed rates, kits or rules — this is the game as Facepunch ships it. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
Size 4,500, seed 1: that is the procedural map the game generates for Project NOVA. RustMaps shows it from this page, since equal size and seed give an equal map. For the map name it lists Custom Map.
Nothing on Project NOVA states a region. Where the machine stands is not checked by Rust Live Stats; only the location a server states is shown. 199.115.72.20:10000 is its address.
It never went below 150 server fps in the last 48 hours, averaging 213. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to a maximum of 149,181 entities. Up to 5,520 MB of memory was used. Lag, as players feel it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652 on Linux is what Project NOVA runs. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
Right now Project NOVA is online. About 6 days 7 hours ago is when it last restarted, according to its uptime. 167 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 99% uptime. Rust Live Stats has tracked it since 13 September 2026.
Use Launch Rust and join on this page to open Rust through Steam and connect, or start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 199.115.72.20:10000.