Project NOVA
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 52%.
Power level
Players on it, from the Steam server list.
Every five minutes.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Tale of the tape
Against its closest rival: the most similar server we track.
Wipe receipt
199.115.72.20:10000
THANK YOU · COME AGAIN NEXT WIPE
The map
Under the hood
Asked of the server directly. Low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
The ranking
Down 1491 places on last week. Top 52% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 199.115.72.20:10000
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 40
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- monthly
- Last wipe
- 3 Oct 2026, 22:39 UTC
- Hostname
- –
- First seen
- 13 Sep 2026
Other contenders
The same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipes.
Quick answers
From the figures on this page.
Map and rules
What settings does Project NOVA use?
The name of Project NOVA does not include a gather rate. Up to 8 players per group, the standard default. pve is the game mode, player-versus-player combat is off. Modded in the browser is where it appears: plugins or settings change how the game plays. Plugins running: Carbon. It claims vanilla status: as Facepunch intended: standard rates, no kits, no extra rules. VAC is on: Valve's anti-cheat is running.
What's the map on Project NOVA?
A procedural map of 4,500 with seed 1 is in use on Project NOVA, made by the game. View it on RustMaps from this page: identical size and seed give an identical map. The map is called Custom Map.
Server tags
What are the tags on Project NOVA for?
These tags come from Project NOVA and go straight into the game's server browser: gmvanilla (Game mode): Unchanged vanilla survival; mp40 (Max players): 40 players fit in; ts8 (Group limit): Default team size is 8; v2634 (Protocol): Your game version must equal protocol 2634 to get in; cs166652 (Build): Build 166652; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $r? (Region code): No region code on record; ^m (Monthly): Facepunch's force wipe brings the monthly reset; ^v (Vanilla): As Facepunch intended: standard rates, no kits, no extra rules; ^p (PvE): Players do not fight players; the environment does the killing; ^z (Modded): It is Modded: plugins or settings make the difference; ^y (Carbon): Plugin framework: Carbon. The top of this page also shows its current players, its queue and when its world was made, all taken from the tags.
Where does Project NOVA appear in Boongarust lists?
The Boongarust lists that take Project NOVA are: Top modded Rust servers and Best Rust PvE servers. These filters bring it up 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; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server info
Is Project NOVA laggy?
The 48-hour average was 225 server fps; the floor was 181. At its peak, it held 149,033 entities, including buildings and deployables. It drew as much as 4,839 MB of memory. What players call lag is low fps plus a rising entity count.
What's the location of Project NOVA?
No region comes from Project NOVA. What you see on Boongarust is where a server says it is, not where the machine is found to stand. You can reach it at 199.115.72.20:10000.
How reliable is Project NOVA?
Project NOVA is up as you read this. A restart happened about 4 days 6 hours ago, based on the uptime figure. Uptime over the last 7 full days came to 100%, 168 hours from 168. The first record Boongarust has is 13 September 2026.
What Rust version is Project NOVA using?
On Linux, Project NOVA runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166652. Joining requires your game to be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.
Wipe times
Wipe day at Project NOVA: what's it like?
Across recent wipes, the average peak was 2 players. The crowd on the latest wipe peaked 1 hours in. In 0% of recent wipes, half the peak was the floor until the next wipe. Where it failed to hold, the crowd sank below half by day 1.
Project NOVA wipes on what schedule?
Project NOVA wipes with the force wipe, once a month. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC comes the force wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. 4 days 7 hours ago this server built its current world. Its tags say it wipes monthly.
Player counts
Ranking wise, where does Project NOVA place?
In the top 52% of all ranked servers, Project NOVA is #12,453 on player hours over the last seven days.
How many players are on Project NOVA?
Project NOVA is showing 0 players on 40 slots right now. The average over the last seven days was 0 players, with a peak of 2.
How to join
How can you get into Project NOVA?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 199.115.72.20:10000. You can also use Launch Rust on this page to open Rust via Steam and connect.
Sticker sheet
Every tag it publishes, and what it means. Published as mp40,ptrak,$r?,v2634,^z,^y,^p,^m,^v,gmvanilla,cs166652,ts8.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.