Community:The Great Pug
The Great Pug is a PC-only bar world established on February 1, 2017 by owlboy, dedicated to host many patrons and serve all those who come through its doors.
Layout
The Great Pug has four floors:
- The first floor hosts a double-sided bar, 11 booths and 5 tables for patrons to sit, as well as two bathrooms, a storage closet, and a door leading out to the back of the building where a dumpster can be found
- The second floor, named "Night View Hall" has another bar, a stage for people to perform, a billiards table, two long tables and five small tables
- The topmost floor, named "The Roost", can be reached after ascending 6 flights of stairs. The Roost has a fireplace with four seats and a sofa surrounding it, two large round tables behind it, and another set of stairs leading to a loft with 5 beds for people to sleep on
Non-accessible areas
The Great Pug also contains many rooms that are fully modelled, but not accessible in normal times, such as:
- The bottom floor under the stairs, unanimously called the "Basement", that is only opened on special occasions, containing some chairs, and leftover signage
- The kitchen
- A room next to the storage closet
- A tiny room behind the bar on the second floor
Popularity
As one of the oldest worlds in VRChat, The Great Pug is considered a classic world. Most people coming to this world are regulars, and as this world is not quest-compatible, it can be for some a "refuge" world from the very popular instances of other worlds.
Community
The Great Pug is a meeting place for many content creators. We've seen the first tests of "AI" players. Or players who have completely remastered the place by creating avatars that can add more content to the world (decorations, various objects...), making the place their own in a very creative way. Concerts are sometimes held on the second floor stage. It's also a meeting place for avatar creators.
Events
The Great Pug celebrates two annual holidays, which began in 2017. During these seasonal events, a 'hunt' is promoted, where users will have to find several of an object scattered around The Great Pug.
Saint Patrick's Day
Since 2017. Users are encouraged to attend, and have their optimized avatar wear green.
Halloween
Since 2017. Users are encouraged to attend, and have their optimized avatars wear a spooky costume.
Other events
- Boogie in the Basement - 2023
Easter eggs
The Hunt for Mr. Whiskers and The Dire Pug
The Hunt for Mr.Whiskers was an event in April 2018 that sent players throughout various worlds in search of clues to find pieces to a gun that could ultimately destroy Mr. Whiskers. This event included the Great Pug, where resolving a puzzle unlocked a portal to a secret world called "Dire Pug".
The Dire Pug is a challenge world containing several trials to go through, the reward was a piece of the Mr. Whiskers gun.
In 2020, after the "Udon" update, the Dire Pug died and until this day puzzle and objects interactions have not been restored. (yet, who knows maybe it will reborn again)
Robogenics Survey
In 2022, A poster about "R Survey" was added, located next to the spawn where many posters are displayed. Players could pick up a USB stick object from this poster and use it to unlock a portal leading to the Robogenics survey world about the future of AIs in VRChat. (The pickup is now unavailable)
Community resources
- The Great Pug's Home Page at thegreatpug.com
- The Great Pug on X.
- The Great Pug on Tumblr.
- The Great Pug on Bluesky.
- The Great Pug on Mastodon.
- The Great Pug on Instagram.
- The Great Pug - 2019 on YouTube.
Trivia
- The Great Pug is based on the first floor of a real bar called "The Great Dane", located in Madison, Wisconsin, USA. The Great Pug is inspired off of its 'East' location.
- The Great Pug has a quest-compatible sister world called 'The Great Pug - West', uploaded in 2019.
- Footage of The Great Pug can be found in VRChat's 'Create, Play, Share' trailer.
- The music accompanying The Great Pug is 'Together With You', by JD Tundra.
- At one point in time, inside one of the bathroom stalls had a phone number to call. If you dialed the number, an automated recording would play; the caller would be "put on hold", as The Great Pug's music would play while you waited. The line hung up after a while.
