Rust HeatmapInfrared · players
IR live Players52,970 Servers11,690 Warm3,210 Fresh wipes · 3h138 Frameevery 5 min
‹ All serversThermal scan
REC Thermal scan · 48 h Sp1 0° now Linear · 0–75° · slots

Nova

Offline 5.39.17.8:29344 checked 19d ago

moddedoxide
Sp1 · players now 0/ 75
0% full
Li1 · players, the last 48 hours · hourly average, UTC
No hourly readings in the last 48 hours
0
7-day average
peak –
#15,873
rank
top 72%
26d ago
last wipe
no schedule published
–
next wipe
too few wipes seen yet
UTC checked 19d ago

Li2Players

No hourly history yet.

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Li3Server performance

This server has not answered a direct query in the last 48 hours.

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.

Li4Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k20 Sep25 Sep30 Sep6 Oct11 Oct16 Oct

Top 72% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Bx1Wipe schedule

too few wipes seen yet

Not enough wipes seen yet to tell when the next one is. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

0
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 0, 0 hours in.

Bx2Wipes

newest first · each peak a flare-up, on one √ span to its biggest
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 2 Oct, 18:38 UTC26d ago 0 – running 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.

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LogQuick answers

from the figures on this page

Wipe day

What does wipe day look like on Nova?

Its recent wipes drew an average peak of 0 players. The crowd on the latest wipe reached its peak 0 hours in.

What is the wipe schedule on Nova?

Its rhythm cannot yet be told: too few of Nova's wipes are on record. Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the next monthly force wipe, when every Rust server wipes. The world it runs now dates from 26 days 15 hours ago.

Player counts

How busy is Nova?

The last time Nova was seen was 19 days 23 hours ago, and it is offline now.

How does Nova rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over seven days put Nova at #15,873, in the top 72% of ranked servers.

Rules and settings

Which map does Nova run?

Nova runs a procedural map of size 4,000 with seed 50000, generated by the game. The map is the same for a given size and seed, so RustMaps can show it from this page.

What are the rules and settings on Nova?

No gather rate appears in the name Nova. The group limit is 8 players, which is the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid in the standard game. Combat between players and raiding are both possible. Plugins or settings change the game, and it is listed under Modded in the server browser. Oxide plugins are in use. The server has VAC, Valve's anti-cheat, turned on.

About the server

Which version of Rust does Nova run?

Rust network protocol 2634 and build 166586 is the build Nova runs, on Linux. To join, your game must match the protocol; Steam handles the update.

Is Nova online, and how reliable is it?

Last seen 19 days 23 hours ago, Nova is offline right now. 0 of 168 hours up over the last 7 full days, which is 0%. It first appears in Rust Heatmap records on 13 September 2026.

Where is Nova located?

Nothing about a region comes from Nova. Rust Heatmap shows the location a server states. It does not look up the machine's location. 5.39.17.8:29344 is its address.

Tags

Which Rust Heatmap lists and filters include Nova?

The Rust Heatmap lists that Nova fits are: Modded Rust servers, by live population. You will find it under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more.

What do the server tags on Nova mean?

The game's server browser reads the tags Nova publishes: gmrust (Game mode): Survival in the standard Rust form; mp75 (Max players): This server has 75 slots; ts8 (Group limit): The game default applies: 8 per team at most; v2634 (Protocol): Your game must match protocol 2634 to get in; cs166586 (Build): This build is 166586; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): The region code is blank; ^o (Oxide): Plugins run through Oxide (uMod); ^z (Modded): The game is changed by settings or plugins, so it sits under Modded. The top of this page also shows the tags for players now, the queue and when the world was made.

How to join

How do I join Nova?

To join by console, open it with F1 in Rust and enter client.connect 5.39.17.8:29344. Or press Launch Rust on this page, which connects you through Steam.

KeyServer tags

what each one means

Published as mp75,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs166586,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival in the standard Rust form.
mp75
Max players This server has 75 slots.
ts8
Group limit The game default applies: 8 per team at most.
v2634
Protocol Your game must match protocol 2634 to get in.
cs166586
Build This build is 166586.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code The region code is blank.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide Plugins run through Oxide (uMod).
^z
Modded The game is changed by settings or plugins, so it sits under Modded.

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.