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Penguin Paradise

Online 212.192.28.174:28019 checked 10m ago

teams off moddedcarbonhardcore

Players now

Live
0of 20
Full
0%
In queue
0
Peak, 48 hours
2
Peak, 7 days
3

0% full

Tue 17:00Thu 15:00players each hour · 48 hours · UTC

Rank

#6,083

top 27%

7-day average

0

peak 3

Last wipe

27d ago

no schedule published

Next wipe

–

no rhythm it keeps

Players

AveragePeak
00.511.5217:0002:0011:0021:0006:0015:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Server performance

05010015020017:0002:0011:0021:0006:0015:00

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 best
RankRank in region
12k4k6k8k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 27% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

Wipe schedule

no rhythm it keeps

Its wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.

13.7 daysusual gapbetween real wipes
0%on rhythmof its recent wipes
2wipe-day peakplayers, last three wipes
100%crowd heldof its cycles kept half the crowd

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Sat 24 OctThu 1 OctSat 26 Sep
00.511.52+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 41 hours in.

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sat 24 Oct, 08:20 UTC5d ago 3 – running 2
Thu 1 Oct, 18:09 UTC FW27d ago 2 held half 22.6 days 1
Sat 26 Sep, 23:47 UTC32d ago 2 held half 4.8 days 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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Quick answers

from the figures on this page

Server details

Is Penguin Paradise online, and how reliable is it?

Right now Penguin Paradise is running. The uptime it reports puts its last restart about 5 hours ago. It was online 99% of the last 7 full days, which is 167 of 168 hours. Rust Dashboard logged it for the first time on 17 September 2026.

Which version of Rust does Penguin Paradise run?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is running on Penguin Paradise, which sits on Linux. Joining needs the same protocol on your side, and Steam handles that update.

Where is Penguin Paradise located?

No region tag comes from Penguin Paradise. Rust Dashboard takes the location a server gives; the machine's real position is not checked. You'll connect at 212.192.28.174:28019.

Does Penguin Paradise run smoothly?

Server fps averaged 91 over the last 48 hours and never dropped below 48. The world held as many as 425,027 entities, counting buildings, deployables and all the rest. It drew as much as 6,181 MB of memory at peak. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Tags, lists

Which Rust Dashboard lists and filters include Penguin Paradise?

These Rust Dashboard lists include Penguin Paradise: Modded Rust servers, live now. You'll find it under these filters on the server list: Type: Modded; Game mode: Hardcore; Server tag: Hardcore ^h, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y.

What do the server tags on Penguin Paradise mean?

The game's server browser reads these tags from Penguin Paradise: gmhardcore (Game mode): A harsher ruleset, hardcore, is in force; mp20 (Max players): 20 is the slot count; ts0 (Group limit): There are no teams here; v2635 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2635; your build has to match it to join; cs168909 (Build): Build 168909 is what it runs; ptrak (Networking): The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard; $r? (Region code): The region code is blank; ^h (Hardcore): Fewer helpers and harsher survival: Facepunch's hardcore mode; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings; the listing is Modded; ^y (Carbon): The plugin framework here is Carbon. The tags also carry the current player count, the queue and when the world was made, all shown at the top of this page.

Player counts

How busy is Penguin Paradise?

0 players are playing on Penguin Paradise right now, out of 20 slots. Its seven-day average is 0 players, and it reached 3 at the highest. It was busiest at 01:00 UTC over the last 48 hours, when it averaged 2 players.

How does Penguin Paradise rank against other Rust servers?

Ranked #6,083 on the last seven days of player hours, Penguin Paradise is in the top 27% of all ranked servers.

Wipe schedule

What does wipe day look like on Penguin Paradise?

At their busiest, its recent wipes drew 2 players on average. On the latest wipe, 41 hours passed before the crowd peaked. Above half that peak until the next wipe: that held in 100% of recent wipes.

What is the wipe schedule on Penguin Paradise?

There is no next wipe to predict: Penguin Paradise wipes at irregular times. On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC the monthly force wipe takes every Rust server with it. The world it runs now dates from 27 days 22 hours ago.

Settings

What are the rules and settings on Penguin Paradise?

No gather rate appears in the name of Penguin Paradise. The group limit is not published here. It runs hardcore, Facepunch's hardest mode. Fighting and raiding between players are both allowed. The server browser lists it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. Carbon plugins run on it. VAC is on: that is Valve's anti-cheat.

Which map does Penguin Paradise run?

The game generates the procedural map on Penguin Paradise, size 6,000.

Join

How do I join Penguin Paradise?

The console in Rust opens with F1, and client.connect 212.192.28.174:28019 goes in there. Launch Rust on this page is the other route, opening Rust through Steam to connect you.

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp20,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^z,^y,^h,gmhardcore,cs168909,ts0

Game

gmhardcore
Game mode A harsher ruleset, hardcore, is in force.
mp20
Max players 20 is the slot count.
ts0
Group limit There are no teams here.
v2635
Protocol The game protocol is 2635; your build has to match it to join.
cs168909
Build Build 168909 is what it runs.
ptrak
Networking The network layer is RakNet, the game's standard.
$r?
Region code The region code is blank.

Difficulty

^h
Hardcore Fewer helpers and harsher survival: Facepunch's hardcore mode.

Mods and access

^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings; the listing is Modded.
^y
Carbon The plugin framework here is Carbon.

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.