Element card · group Modded · atomic number 6,025, its rank
Penguin Paradise
Online 212.192.28.174:28019 checked 10m 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 best
Top 27% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
no rhythm it keepsIts wipes keep no rhythm, so there is no next wipe to predict. Every server wipes at the monthly force wipe.
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 41 hours in.
Wipes
newest first| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sat 24 Oct, 08:20 UTC4d 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.
Similar servers
the same kind of game, then region, group limit, rate and wipesQuick answers
from the figures on this pageMap and rules
What map is in play on Penguin Paradise?
The map on Penguin Paradise is procedural at size 6,000, made by the game.
What rules has Penguin Paradise set, and what settings are in force?
The name of Penguin Paradise carries no gather rate. No group limit is published. hardcore is the game mode, Facepunch's toughest setting. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. In the server browser it sits under Modded: the game is changed by plugins or settings. The plugin count is Carbon. Anti-cheat is on: Valve's VAC.
Server facts
Which location is Penguin Paradise based in?
No region is published by Penguin Paradise. What a server states is what Rust Data Lab shows for location; no lookup of the machine's whereabouts is made. 212.192.28.174:28019 is the address it uses.
On what Rust version does Penguin Paradise operate?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is what Penguin Paradise uses. Your game needs to match the protocol to join, and Steam updates it automatically.
How dependable is Penguin Paradise for staying online?
Right now, Penguin Paradise is reachable. According to the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 52 minutes ago. For the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours were online, giving 99% uptime. The first sighting by Rust Data Lab was on 17 September 2026.
Is Penguin Paradise known for smooth running?
In the last 48 hours, it averaged 92 server fps, with a low of 48. The entity count reached 425,027, including buildings, deployables and all other world items. Up to 6,181 MB of memory was used. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Wipe days
What is the wiping pattern on Penguin Paradise?
No next wipe can be predicted on Penguin Paradise: its wipes come at irregular times. The monthly force wipe resets every Rust server; it next occurs on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 27 days 11 hours ago the current world was made.
What does a typical wipe day on Penguin Paradise involve?
Averaged across its recent wipes, the busiest point drew 2 players. Peak numbers on the latest wipe came 41 hours in. Half that peak was held until the next wipe in 100% of recent wipes.
Tags, lists
How should you read the tags on Penguin Paradise?
gmhardcore (Game mode): The rules are hardcore, which is harsher; mp20 (Max players): 20 is the slot count; ts0 (Group limit): Teams are not available on this server; v2635 (Protocol): To join, your game must match protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): This runs on RakNet, the standard layer; $r? (Region code): The region field is left blank; ^h (Hardcore): Fewer helpers and a harsher game: that is Facepunch's hardcore mode; ^z (Modded): You will find it under Modded: the game is altered by plugins or settings; ^y (Carbon): Plugins run on Carbon: that is the tag list Penguin Paradise publishes, and the game's server browser reads it. The tags carry more as well: current players, the queue and when the world was made, all shown at the top of this page.
Where among the Rust Data Lab lists and filters does Penguin Paradise come up?
These themed Rust Data Lab lists carry Penguin Paradise: Modded Rust servers, measured. These filters bring it up on the server list: Type: Modded; Game mode: Hardcore; Server tag: Hardcore ^h, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y.
Player numbers
How does Penguin Paradise compare with other servers in the rankings?
Player hours over the last week put Penguin Paradise at #6,025, inside the top 27% of ranked servers.
What does the current player count on Penguin Paradise tell you?
Of 20 slots, 0 are taken on Penguin Paradise right now. A seven-day sample gives 0 players on average and 3 at the top. Peak time in the past 48 hours: 01:00 UTC, when the average was 2 players.
Getting on
How can you connect to Penguin Paradise?
You can connect by pressing F1 in Rust and entering client.connect 212.192.28.174:28019, or by pressing Launch Rust here, which starts the game through Steam and joins for you.