Nova
OVR is 100 less its top share among ranked servers: top 69%.
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
5.39.17.8:29344
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
Up 92 places on last week. Top 69% of all ranked servers. Daily; 1 is best.
Spec sheet
- Address
- 5.39.17.8:29344
- Region
- –
- Max players
- 75
- Group limit
- 8, the default
- Wipe schedule
- –
- Last wipe
- 2 Oct 2026, 18:38 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.
Server rules
What are Nova's rules and configuration?
No gather rate appears in the name of Nova. Up to 8 players per group, the standard default. survival is the game mode, the default game of gathering, building and raiding. You can fight and raid other players. The server browser lists it as Modded: plugins or settings alter the game. You find Oxide plugins in use. VAC is on: Valve's anti-cheat is running.
What's the map on Nova?
A procedural map of 4,000 with seed 50000 is in use on Nova, made by the game. The map is identical for the same size and seed, so RustMaps can show it from this page.
Server tags
How should you read the tags on Nova?
These tags come from Nova and go straight into the game's server browser: gmrust (Game mode): Survival as Rust normally plays; mp75 (Max players): 75 players fit in; ts8 (Group limit): The game default: 8 to a team; v2634 (Protocol): Protocol 2634: match it or you cannot join; cs166586 (Build): Build 166586; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the game's default network layer; $r? (Region code): The region code is missing; ^o (Oxide): It uses Oxide (uMod) for plugins; ^z (Modded): Modded: plugins or settings change how it plays. The tags carry its current players, its queue and its world's creation time, and this page puts them up top.
Which Boongarust filters show Nova?
On these Boongarust lists you will find Nova: Top modded Rust servers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last week.
Server info
Is Nova laggy?
Average server fps over the last 48 hours was 136, with a low of 116. Buildings, deployables and everything else added up to as many as 96,185 entities. It drew as much as 4,583 MB of memory. Lag, to players, means low fps and a growing entity count.
What's the physical location of Nova?
No region is published by 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 5.39.17.8:29344.
How often is Nova online?
Online: Nova, at this moment. A restart happened about 6 days ago, based on the uptime figure. 168 hours out of 168 across the last 7 full days. 100% uptime. The first record Boongarust has is 13 September 2026.
What Rust version is Nova using?
On Linux, Nova runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166586. You must match the protocol to join; Steam updates it automatically.
Wipe info
Wipe day at Nova: what's it like?
Across recent wipes, the average peak was 0 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.
When does Nova wipe?
With so few of Nova's wipes on record, its rhythm is unclear. The monthly force wipe hits every Rust server, and the next one lands on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 6 days 2 hours ago this server built its current world.
Population
What's Nova's rank among Rust servers?
In the top 69% of all ranked servers, Nova is #16,019 on player hours over the last seven days.
How many players are on Nova?
Right now, 0 players are on Nova, which has 75 slots. Averaged 0 players across the last week.
How to join
How can you get into Nova?
To connect, open the console with F1 in Rust and type client.connect 5.39.17.8:29344. 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 mp75,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166586,ts8,^o^z.
Flag meanings are Facepunch's.