Online 220.233.43.246:28015 checked 9m ago
nova Testing Grounds
By the numbersMatch stats
against its 5 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. 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
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
ResultsWipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players 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.
Similar servers
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Operator and location
Is nova Testing Grounds online, and how reliable is it?
Online now, nova Testing Grounds is up. 167 of 168 hours were up over the last 7 full days, 99% of the time. Rust Player Stats logged it for the first time on 13 September 2026.
Which Rust version is nova Testing Grounds on?
On Linux, nova Testing Grounds runs Rust network protocol 2633 and build 163794. Same protocol or no entry: your game must match, and Steam keeps it updated for you.
Where is nova Testing Grounds located?
There is no region published on nova Testing Grounds. Rust Player Stats takes the server's word on where it is and does not look up the machine's real location. 220.233.43.246:28015 is the address.
Tags
What do the server tags on nova Testing Grounds mean?
gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp5 (Max players): Slot count: 5; ts8 (Group limit): No more than 8 to a team, as the game sets by default; v2633 (Protocol): Your game must be on protocol 2633 to get in; cs163794 (Build): The game build here is 163794; ptrak (Networking): RakNet handles the network here, the game's standard layer; $r? (Region code): The region code is left blank; ^z (Modded): The game changes here through plugins or settings, so it's listed under Modded; ^y (Carbon): Carbon provides the plugin framework here are the tags nova Testing Grounds publishes, and the game's server browser reads them. You will also find its current players, its queue and the age of its world in the tags, shown at the top of this page.
Which Rust Player Stats lists and filters include nova Testing Grounds?
These Rust Player Stats lists take nova Testing Grounds: Modded Rust servers, live. Searching the server list with these filters returns it: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more.
Rules and settings
Which map is running on nova Testing Grounds?
nova Testing Grounds runs a map the game generates: procedural.
What are the rules and settings on nova Testing Grounds?
The name of nova Testing Grounds does not say what the gather rate is. Groups top out at 8 players, the default for the game. It plays as survival, build, gather and raid in the standard game. Fighting and raiding between players is allowed. Under Modded in the server browser: the game is changed by plugins or settings. Carbon plugins are running. VAC is off, so Valve's anti-cheat is not watching.
Player counts
What is the population on nova Testing Grounds at the moment?
Out of 5 slots, 0 are taken on nova Testing Grounds at this moment. The seven-day average for this server is 0 players.
Where does nova Testing Grounds sit in the rankings?
Player hours over seven days place nova Testing Grounds at #15,358, among the top 69% of ranked servers.
Wipe timing
What is the wipe schedule on nova Testing Grounds?
The record holds too few of nova Testing Grounds's wipes to tell its rhythm. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe lands, and every Rust server wipes. The world it runs now was made 45 days 23 hours ago.
Joining the server
How do I join nova Testing Grounds?
Console route: F1 in Rust, then client.connect 220.233.43.246:28015. Or use Launch Rust here, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you.
GlossaryServer tags
what each one meansPublished as mp5,ptrak,$r?,v2633,gmrust,cs163794,ts8,^z,^y
Game
gmrust
mp5
ts8
v2633
cs163794
ptrak
$r?
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.