Online 199.115.72.20:10000 checked 10m ago
Project NOVA
By the numbersMatch stats
against its 40 slotsThe story of the match
Players, performance and rank, hour by hour and day by day.
CrowdPlayers
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
FitnessServer 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.
FormRank
daily · 1 is bestTop 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
FixturesWipe schedule
force wipes onlyNext wipeThursday 5 November, 19:00 UTCin 7d 6h The force wipe · high confidence
Coming wipes
- 7d 6hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
- 35d 6hThu 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.
ResultsWipes
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.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Server details
Is Project NOVA online, and how reliable is it?
The lights are on at Project NOVA: online as you read this. The reported uptime puts the last restart at roughly 6 days 11 hours ago. 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, which is 167 of 168 hours up. Rust Player Stats logged it for the first time on 13 September 2026.
Does Project NOVA run smoothly?
213 server fps on average over 48 hours, and never under 150. Up to 149,208 entities sat in the world, buildings and deployables included. 5,520 MB of memory was the high point. Lag, to a player, is these two together: low fps and a rising entity count.
Which Rust version is Project NOVA on?
On Linux, Project NOVA runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652. Steam updates your game for you, but the protocol has to match to join.
Where is Project NOVA located?
No region is published by Project NOVA. What a server says about itself is what Rust Player Stats shows; no check is made of where the machine actually stands. 199.115.72.20:10000 is the address.
Lists and filters
What do the server tags on Project NOVA mean?
Tags published by Project NOVA and picked up by the in-game browser: gmvanilla (Game mode): It's vanilla survival; mp40 (Max players): It holds 40 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The default 8 per team applies here; v2634 (Protocol): Game protocol 2634: join only if your game matches that version; cs166652 (Build): It runs game build 166652; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the standard one; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^m (Monthly): Monthly wipes, timed to Facepunch's force wipe; ^v (Vanilla): Facepunch's game unaltered: no rates, kits or rules are changed; ^p (PvE): Players don't fight each other here; the world does the killing; ^z (Modded): The game changes here through plugins or settings, so it's listed under Modded; ^y (Carbon): The plugin framework is Carbon. The tags carry more besides: present players, queue length and when the world was made, all displayed at the top of this page.
Which Rust Player Stats lists and filters include Project NOVA?
These Rust Player Stats lists take Project NOVA: Modded Rust servers, live and Best Rust PvE servers (2026). Searching the server list with these filters returns it: 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.
Server rules
Which map is running on Project NOVA?
Size 4,500, seed 1: that is the procedural map Project NOVA runs, generated by the game. The map repeats with that size and seed, and you can view it on RustMaps from here. Read the map name off the board: Custom Map.
What are the rules and settings on Project NOVA?
Nothing in the name of Project NOVA states a gather rate. Up to 8 players to a group, which is the default. pve, other players are not fought. Plugins or settings change the game, so the server browser lists it as Modded. Carbon plugins are running. The word it uses is vanilla: facepunch's game unaltered: no rates, kits or rules are changed. VAC is on, so Valve's anti-cheat is watching.
Live counts
How full is Project NOVA right now?
Out of 40 slots, 0 are taken on Project NOVA at this moment. The seven-day average for this server is 0 players.
Where does Project NOVA sit in the rankings?
Player hours over seven days place Project NOVA at #15,318, among the top 69% of ranked servers.
Wipe days
What is the wipe schedule on Project NOVA?
With the force wipe, Project NOVA wipes once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the force wipe comes, and that is its next wipe, when every Rust server wipes. 25 days 13 hours ago is when its current world was made. A monthly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
What does wipe day look like on Project NOVA?
At their busiest, its recent wipes drew 2 players on average. 1 hours after the wipe, the crowd peaked on the latest wipe. Until the next wipe, the crowd stayed above half that peak in 0% of its recent wipes. It fell below half by day 1 when it didn't hold.
How to join
How do I join Project NOVA?
Press F1 in Rust, bring up the console and enter client.connect 199.115.72.20:10000. The Launch Rust button here does the same, opening Rust via Steam and connecting you.
GlossaryServer tags
what each one meansPublished as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^z,^y,^p,^m,^v,gmvanilla,cs166652,ts8
Game
gmvanilla
mp40
ts8
v2634
cs166652
ptrak
$r?
Wipe schedule
^m
Difficulty
^v
Gameplay
^p
Mods and access
^z
^y
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.