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The Puppy Pen

Online 152.53.247.139:28020 checked 6m ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 10 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak –
Rank#15,323top 69%
Region–no continent published · group 8, the default
Last wipe13d agono schedule published
Next wipe–too few wipes seen yet
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123412:0021:0006:0015:0001:0010:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

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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.

Climbing the charts

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k20 Sep28 Sep6 Oct13 Oct21 Oct29 Oct

Top 69% of all ranked servers. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe 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.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Fri 16 Oct, 10:46 UTC13d 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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The interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include The Puppy Pen?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include The Puppy Pen: Modded Rust servers, live. These are the filters that list it on the server list: Type: Modded; Server tag: Modded ^z and Oxide ^o; Group limit: 5 or more; Last wipe: In the last 2 weeks.

What do the server tags on The Puppy Pen mean?

These are the tags The Puppy Pen publishes for the browser: gmrust (Game mode): This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes; mp10 (Max players): Slots: 10; ts8 (Group limit): This uses the default limit of 8 players per team; v2634 (Protocol): The game protocol is 2634, so your client has to match it to join; cs167781 (Build): It's on game build 167781; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one; $r? (Region code): No region is listed; ^o (Oxide): A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here; ^z (Modded): The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing. The tags also carry its current players, queue and world creation time, all shown at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does The Puppy Pen rank against other Rust servers?

Player hours over the last week rank The Puppy Pen at #15,323, within the top 69% of ranked servers.

How many players are on The Puppy Pen right now?

The current tally at The Puppy Pen: 0 players across 10 slots. The seven-day average sits at 0 players.

Server details

Is The Puppy Pen online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, The Puppy Pen is up and running. About 11 days 21 hours ago is when it last restarted, judging by its uptime. It was up 99% of the time over the last 7 full days, 167 of 168 hours in total. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does The Puppy Pen run smoothly?

The 48-hour average was 57 server fps, with a low of 39. At its peak it held 123,446 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. The highest memory usage was 5,552 MB. Players feel lag when fps drops and the entity count climbs.

Where is The Puppy Pen located?

No region is published by The Puppy Pen. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. Connect at 152.53.247.139:28020.

Which Rust version is The Puppy Pen on?

On Linux, The Puppy Pen runs Rust network protocol 2634 and build 167781. Steam updates your game so it matches the protocol needed to join.

The wipe schedule

What happens on The Puppy Pen when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 0 players. 0 hours after the latest wipe, the crowd hit its peak.

What is the wipe schedule on The Puppy Pen?

Too few wipes are on record for The Puppy Pen to reveal its rhythm. A force wipe comes round every month for all Rust servers, with the next on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC. 13 days 1 hours is when the present world was made.

The rules

Which map does The Puppy Pen run?

Generated by the game with seed 631465922, the map on The Puppy Pen is procedural and 4,500 in size. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map.

What are the rules and settings on The Puppy Pen?

No gather rate appears in the name of The Puppy Pen. The group limit is 8 players, the game's default. survival is the game mode, gather, build and raid, as standard. Raids and PvP are both on the table. The server browser files it under Modded, where plugins or settings change the game. The plugin count is Oxide. Anti-cheat is on: VAC, Valve's system.

How to join

How do I join The Puppy Pen?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 152.53.247.139:28020. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp10,ptrak,$r?,v2634,gmrust,cs167781,ts8,^o^z

Game

gmrust
Game mode This one runs standard Rust survival, as it comes.
mp10
Max players Slots: 10.
ts8
Group limit This uses the default limit of 8 players per team.
v2634
Protocol The game protocol is 2634, so your client has to match it to join.
cs167781
Build It's on game build 167781.
ptrak
Networking RakNet is the network layer, the game's standard one.
$r?
Region code No region is listed.

Mods and access

^o
Oxide A plugin framework called Oxide (uMod) is running here.
^z
Modded The game is changed by plugins or settings, hence the Modded listing.

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.