Nova
Online 5.39.17.8:29344 checked 7m ago
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 71% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
Wipes
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.
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What is the wipe schedule on Nova?
Not enough of Nova's wipes are on record yet to tell its rhythm. Every Rust server wipes at the monthly force wipe, next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. Its current world was made 22 days 22 hours ago.
Players
How busy is Nova?
Right now Nova has 0 players on 75 slots. Over the last seven days it averaged 0 players.
How does Nova rank against other Rust servers?
Nova is #15,982 on player hours over the last seven days, in the top 71% of all ranked servers.
Rules and map
What are the rules and settings on Nova?
Nova gives no gather rate in its name. Groups can have up to 8 players, the game's default. Its game mode is survival, the standard game: gather, build, raid. Players can fight and raid each other. It is listed under Modded in the server browser: plugins or settings change the game. It runs Oxide plugins. Valve's anti-cheat, VAC, is on.
Which map does Nova run?
Nova runs a procedural map, generated by the game, of size 4,000 with seed 50000. The same size and seed give the same map, so it can be looked at on RustMaps from this page.
Tags and lists
What do the server tags on Nova mean?
Nova publishes these tags, which the game's server browser reads: gmrust (Game mode): Standard Rust survival; mp75 (Max players): 75 slots; ts8 (Group limit): At most 8 per team, the game default; v2633 (Protocol): Game protocol 2633: your game has to be on the same version to join; cs164530 (Build): Game build 164530; ptrak (Networking): RakNet, the game's standard network layer; $r? (Region code): No region code set; ^o (Oxide): Runs Oxide (uMod), a plugin framework; ^z (Modded): Listed under Modded: plugins or settings change the game. Its players now, its queue and the time its world was made are in the tags too, and are shown at the top of this page.
Which Zongarust lists and filters include Nova?
Nova fits these Zongarust lists: Best modded Rust servers. On the server list it comes up under these filters: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.
The server
Where is Nova located?
Nova publishes no region. Zongarust shows where a server says it is; it does not look up where the machine stands. Its address is 5.39.17.8:29344.
Is Nova online, and how reliable is it?
Nova is online right now. It last restarted about 7 days 9 hours ago, going by the uptime it reports. Over the last 7 full days it was up 100% of the time, 168 of 168 hours. Zongarust first saw it on 13 September 2026.
Does Nova run smoothly?
Over the last 48 hours it ran at 146 server fps on average, never below 112. It carried up to 96,826 entities: buildings, deployables and everything else in the world. It used up to 6,256 MB of memory. Low fps and a climbing entity count are what players feel as lag.
Which version of Rust does Nova run?
Nova runs Rust network protocol 2633 and build 164530 on Linux. Your game has to be on the same protocol to join; Steam updates it for you.
Joining
How do I join Nova?
Start Rust, press F1 to open the console and enter client.connect 5.39.17.8:29344. Or use Launch Rust and join on this page, which opens Rust through Steam and connects you. Its website is https://shockbyte.com.