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The count
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Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
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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.
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Top 27% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Coming up · 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.
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 3, 41 hours in.
The current map
Saturday 24 October 2026, 08:20 UTC
Force wipe
Thursday 1 October 2026, 18:09 UTC FW
Wipe
Saturday 26 September 2026, 23:47 UTC
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.
The average peak across its recent wipes is 2 players. 41 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak. In 100% of recent wipes, population held above half the peak right through to the next wipe.
Penguin Paradise wipes with no fixed pattern, so there is nothing to predict. Every server in Rust, this one among them, wipes at the monthly force wipe; Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is the next. 27 days 12 hours have passed since this world was generated.
These are the Rust Live Stats lists Penguin Paradise fits: Modded Rust servers live now. These filters on the server list bring it up: Type: Modded; Game mode: Hardcore; Server tag: Hardcore ^h, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y.
These are the tags Penguin Paradise makes public: gmhardcore (Game mode): A harsher ruleset: hardcore; mp20 (Max players): Slots: 20; ts0 (Group limit): There are no teams here; v2635 (Protocol): You need protocol 2635 on your game to get in; cs168909 (Build): Build: 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer — the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region code is set here; ^h (Hardcore): Fewer helpers and a harsher survival: this is Facepunch's hardcore mode; ^z (Modded): Plugins or settings changes put this under Modded; ^y (Carbon): The plugins run through Carbon. Players now, queue length and world creation time are carried in the tags too, and appear at the top of this page.
Live now: 0 players on Penguin Paradise, out of 20 slots. Averaged across seven days, 0 players; the peak was 3. Between now and 48 hours back, 01:00 UTC drew the most players, 2 on average.
Player hours over seven days put Penguin Paradise at #6,031, in the top 27% of all ranked servers.
No gather rate appears in the name Penguin Paradise. No group limit appears in its listing. It runs hardcore, The hardest mode Facepunch makes. Fighting and raiding between players are allowed. Plugins or settings change the game, and the browser lists it as Modded. The plugin load is Carbon. Anti-cheat: VAC from Valve is enabled.
Penguin Paradise runs a game-generated procedural map of size 6,000.
Nothing on Penguin Paradise states a region. The location shown on Rust Live Stats is the one a server gives, not a lookup of the machine's position. You can reach it at 212.192.28.174:28019.
Server fps averaged 92 over the last 48 hours, with a low of 48. Buildings, deployables and everything else in the world added up to a maximum of 425,027 entities. The highest memory usage was 6,181 MB. Lag, as players feel it, comes from low fps and a rising entity count.
Penguin Paradise operates on Linux with Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909. To join, your game must use the same protocol; Steam handles the update for you.
At the time of this update, Penguin Paradise is live. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 2 hours ago. 167 of 168 hours were online in the last 7 full days, giving 99% uptime. On 17 September 2026, Rust Live Stats saw it for the first time.
Use Launch Rust and join on this page to open Rust through Steam and connect, or start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 212.192.28.174:28019.