FORCE WIPE COUNTDOWN
Live countdown to the next forced map wipe and console wipe, plus the current blueprint wipe status. Plan your group, stock up, and never miss a Rust wipe day again.
No blueprint wipe announced. The next force wipe resets the map only.
All times shown in your local timezone. Rust force wipes fire at 2 PM ET on the first Thursday of every month, usually 7 PM UK time, alongside the monthly Facepunch update.
Every forced wipe for the next six months, combined. Plan ahead for group rallies, streams or events.
| Date | Your local time |
|---|---|
| Thursday, October 1, 2026 | at 06:00 PM UTC local time |
| Thursday, November 5, 2026 | at 07:00 PM UTC local time |
| Thursday, December 3, 2026 | at 07:00 PM UTC local time |
| Thursday, January 7, 2027 | at 07:00 PM UTC local time |
| Thursday, February 4, 2027 | at 07:00 PM UTC local time |
| Thursday, March 4, 2027 | at 07:00 PM UTC local time |
| Thursday, April 1, 2027 | at 06:00 PM UTC local time |
| Thursday, May 6, 2027 | at 06:00 PM UTC local time |
| Thursday, June 3, 2027 | at 06:00 PM UTC local time |
| Thursday, July 1, 2027 | at 06:00 PM UTC local time |
| Thursday, August 5, 2027 | at 06:00 PM UTC local time |
| Thursday, September 2, 2027 | at 06:00 PM UTC local time |
A plain-English breakdown of the four wipe types and how to prepare for each.
A wipe is a server-wide reset that deletes progress so everyone starts from scratch. Facepunch forces monthly map wipes on official servers so no one gets so entrenched that new players can't compete. Community servers each set their own wipe cadence (weekly, biweekly, or custom).
Every first Thursday of the month at 2 PM ET, Facepunch ships the monthly update and every server wipes its map. Structures, storage, deployables and vehicles are gone. Learned blueprints are a separate question and are not part of the automatic reset.
Blueprints are the one thing a force wipe does not automatically take. Facepunch announces global BP wipes separately, historically every few months and usually alongside a progression overhaul, so most months are a map wipe only. Community servers set their own rule: some keep blueprints for months, others run a full wipe every week.
Rust Console Edition is run by Double Eleven on its own schedule. Official monthly servers wipe on the last Thursday of the month at 2 PM ET, not the first, and the console build tracks the PC version from roughly a month earlier. Double Eleven also run weekly servers that wipe every Thursday and biweekly servers that wipe every other Thursday. Blueprints are the exception: their stated policy is to avoid wiping them wherever possible and to announce it in advance when a BP wipe is unavoidable.
Community servers pick their own schedule: most wipe weekly on Thursdays, some biweekly, a few daily for no-build-cost servers. Check the server description in the in-game browser or the owner's Discord; some hosts publish a wipe schedule page on their website.
In the 48 hours before a force wipe: finalize group rosters, agree on a starting location, pre-download any map mods or patches, clear your inventory of anything that will not carry, and be online at wipe time to grab prime beach real estate. Prime grids go fast.
On a rented server the wipe is yours to schedule. A map wipe deletes the procedural map plus player positions, deaths and server-placed files, and keeps learned blueprints. A full wipe adds the blueprint file on top, so everyone re-researches. Steam identities, player tokens and your Oxide or Carbon plugins and their configs live outside those files and always survive. In the DoomHosting panel the Wipe tab does all of it in one click, takes a backup first, and rolls a fresh map seed so the new map is genuinely new.
How to wipe a Rust server