from 37,544 wipes over the last 4 weeks

Rust wipe schedule

Every public Rust server resets its map at the monthly force wipe, when Facepunch ships an update. Between those, each owner sets their own wipe day and hour. This page counts the wipes in our index: a week-by-hour heatmap, the busiest wipe days and hours, and the split between weekly, biweekly and monthly rhythms. The force wipe countdown and the next and last wipes for each server are on their pages. Thursday is the busiest wipe day in the current sample.

Right now

wipes = rust.wipes(weeks=4)
{"force": force_wipes.next() - now, "soon": wipes.upcoming("24h"), "fresh": wipes.recent("24h")}

Next force wipe

–d –:–:– # On Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UK time (19:00 UTC), in 9 days and 2 hours. Every server wipes. → force wipe countdown

Wiping in the next 24 hours

172 # servers with players on, expected to wipe by this time tomorrow → view upcoming wipes

Wiped in the last 24 hours

542 # servers with players on that put up a new map since this time yesterday → view just wiped

The rhythm in a few numbers

wipes.summary()

busiest wipe day: Thursday; 31% of all wipes
busiest wipe hour, UTC: 18:00; 12% of wipes in that hour
second busiest wipe hour, UTC: 17:00; 10% of wipes in that hour
wipe monthly: 30%; 3,512 servers · 26% of players
wipe weekly: 14%; 1,627 servers · 49% of players
wipe every two weeks: 9%; 1,101 servers · 10% of players

dtype: object

When servers wipe, hour by hour through the week · UTC · last 4 weeks

wipes.pivot_table(index="weekday", columns="hour", aggfunc="size", margins=True)
     .style.background_gradient(cmap="viridis")

hourweekday	00	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	All
Mon	103	91	82	90	86	111	82	100	126	182	201	139	220	247	253	212	200	197	258	204	184	152	117	86	3,723
Tue	89	65	68	64	63	65	63	73	117	100	163	140	161	161	167	206	168	207	221	181	144	132	125	86	3,029
Wed	81	86	108	79	95	87	89	124	134	155	152	151	192	215	215	174	182	216	192	184	131	140	131	96	3,409
Thu	114	89	102	102	101	119	119	138	142	200	180	220	266	488	374	383	368	2281	3054	1017	541	545	386	304	11,633
Fri	297	279	276	248	281	263	359	318	370	353	479	414	450	430	417	410	330	330	324	277	245	251	154	149	7,704
Sat	153	145	128	115	129	174	135	142	206	268	207	239	288	225	189	213	242	210	216	173	174	131	103	104	4,309
Sun	112	91	119	105	112	105	121	138	171	174	173	202	208	198	187	221	222	228	212	181	118	128	120	91	3,737

fewermore · the darkest cell is 3,054 wipes in one hour

# Restarts are left out: a new map less than six hours after the last counts as the same wipe. Times are UTC: UK time is the same in winter and an hour ahead in summer; US East is five hours behind in winter and four in summer.

display(wipes.weekday.value_counts(sort=False), servers.schedule.value_counts())

Wipe days

share of wipes

weekday	share	wipes
Mon	10%	3,723
Tue	8%	3,029
Wed	9%	3,409
Thu	31%	11,633
Fri	21%	7,704
Sat	11%	4,309
Sun	10%	3,737

What servers say they do

servers online now

schedule	servers	players
Not published	47% · 5,560	13,653 (15%)
Monthly	30% · 3,512	24,176 (26%)
Weekly	14% · 1,627	46,095 (49%)
Every two weeks	9% · 1,101	9,486 (10%)

# From the schedule tag a server publishes. "Not published" servers wipe when they like; the force wipe catches all of them.

Force wipes ahead

force_wipes.upcoming(3)

	when	london
0	next	Thu 5 Nov 2026, 19:00 GMT
1	then	Thu 3 Dec 2026, 19:00 GMT
2	then	Thu 7 Jan 2027, 19:00 GMT

# The first Thursday of every month at 19:00 UK time, with the game update. Last one: Thursday 1 October. countdown →

display(wipes.upcoming("24h").head(), wipes.recent("24h").head())

Wiping soon

all upcoming →

in	server	players
20h	WARBANDITS.GG EU 3X \|Solo/Duo/Trio\|LootX3\| JUST WIPEDEU · every Wednesday at 12:56 and every Sunday at 13:56 UTC	219/275
22h	Atlas - EU 5x \| No BPs \| KitsEU · every Wednesday at 15:25 and every Saturday at 11:58 UTC	134/150
21h	МИНИ-КАРТА 2Х \| STORM \| FPS+ 24.10EU · every Wednesday at 14:04 and every Saturday at 13:56 UTC	132/100
21h	WEREWOLF GAMING.CO 5x Solo/Duo/Trio/Quad\|TP\|Kits\|Loot x5\|WIPEDEU · every 3 days	112/200
22h	[EU/TR] Suayip 5x NO LIMIT \| Loot X5 \| TP \| Home \| KitEU · every Wednesday and Saturday at 14:57 UTC	83/300

Just wiped

all fresh wipes →

ago	server	players
2h	MIRAGE RUST \| TUESDAY 2x \| VANILLA+ \| Wipe 27.10EU · 27 Oct 14:00 UTC	1599+52/1700
16h	RustReborn.gg EU - Bedwars \| AimTrain \| Creative \| Arena \| FFAEU · 27 Oct 00:00 UTC	1034/950
1h	SURVIVORS.GG #2 [ 2x Vanilla ] WIPED 27.10– · 27 Oct 14:59 UTC	787+59/750
2h	WARBANDITS.GG EU 2X \|Solo/Duo/Trio/Quad\|X2 JUST WIPEDEU · 27 Oct 13:56 UTC	746+41/750
3h	SURVIVORS.GG [ 2x Solo/Duo ] WIPED 27.10– · 27 Oct 12:59 UTC	684/700

Questions

When is the next Rust force wipe?

Force wipe follows the game update, which lands on the first Thursday of each month at 19:00 UK time (UTC in winter, UTC+1 in summer). The countdown at the top of this page gives the exact interval to the next one. Servers that run their own schedule may also wipe at other times; the force wipe is the only one that applies to every server.

How often do Rust servers wipe?

It varies. In the current sample of 37,544 wipes, weekly, biweekly and monthly are the common rhythms, with weekly the most frequent among community servers. Monthly schedules usually align with the force wipe; weekly and biweekly ones pick a fixed weekday and hour. The split is shown in the counts above.

What is the difference between a map wipe and a blueprint wipe?

A map wipe resets the world: bases, loot and positions. A blueprint wipe also clears learned crafting recipes. Most servers map-wipe on their own schedule but hold blueprint wipes to the force wipe or skip them entirely. Check the server description for which it does.