Long-term / no-BP-wipe Rust servers preserve every player's learned blueprints across wipes. The map still resets each month — but you keep your AKs, rockets, sheet metal walls and full progression. For players who hate re-grinding tier-1 every month.
On official Facepunch servers, blueprints wipe with every monthly force wipe — you start each new wipe naked on the beach with nothing learned. No-BP-wipe servers (also called "long-term" or "BP Persists" servers) keep the map-wipe schedule but skip the blueprint reset. Day 1 of a new wipe, you can already craft anything you'd unlocked previously. New maps, same loadouts.
Map wipes every first Thursday at 19:00 UTC. Blueprints wipe with the map. Everyone starts naked at tier-1 each month. This is the modern Facepunch official model and most community weekly servers.
Map wipes monthly but blueprints persist. You keep your AKs, rockets, advanced furnaces and every learned recipe across wipes. Day-1 progression is much faster — but the meta gets stale because nobody is gated by learning curves.
Some heavily-modded "build" or "creative" servers don't wipe at all. Bases stand for years. Niche, usually less than 50 players, and not the same as "no BP wipe" — these are essentially sandbox servers with no fresh starts.
A small number of community servers wipe BPs every 2 or 3 months instead of every month — a middle-ground for players who want some progression refresh without the full monthly grind. Listed in server descriptions as "BP wipes every X weeks".
| Item / state | Standard server | No-BP-wipe server |
|---|---|---|
| Map / world / monuments | Wiped monthly | Wiped monthly |
| Your base & deployables | Wiped monthly | Wiped monthly |
| Your inventory | Wiped monthly | Wiped monthly |
| Crafted items in storage | Wiped monthly | Wiped monthly |
| Learned blueprints | Wiped monthly | Kept across wipes |
| Tech tree progression | Wiped monthly | Kept across wipes |
| Recyclables / scrap on hand | Wiped monthly | Wiped monthly |
| Cosmetics / Steam workshop skins | Always kept | Always kept |
The honest answer is: you hate the wipe-day grind. On official Facepunch servers, every first Thursday strips your character down to stone tools and naked again. For players with limited playtime, this means hours of repetitive farming — wood, stone, metal frags, scrap to hit workbench tier-1, then tier-2, then tier-3, then unlocking AK, rockets, MP5, sheet metal — every single month. No-BP-wipe servers skip the entire grind. You keep what you've unlocked. Day one, you can already craft anything you've previously researched.
It changes the playstyle dramatically. PvP starts immediately on day one because everyone's already on AKs. Base design starts at sheet metal because nobody has to wait to unlock the BP. Raid math is faster because the meta is established. The trade-off is that the wipe-day thrill — the level playing field, the scramble, the knowledge that everyone is in the same boat — gets diluted. Some players love that initial chaos and consider no-BP-wipe a watering down of the Rust experience. Others find it more respectful of their time.
Open the in-game server browser and search the server name or description for any of: "No BP Wipe", "Long Term", "BP Persists", "No Blueprint Wipe", "Map Only Wipe". BattleMetrics has a more powerful filter — you can search by tags and sort by population over time, useful for finding servers that consistently maintain a steady playerbase.
Population on long-term servers is typically lower than mainstream wipe servers — 30-100 active players is normal. The audience is smaller but more committed; people pick a long-term server and stick with it for months instead of jumping every Thursday. That's both an upside (consistent communities) and a downside (smaller player pool to fight).
Map wipes still typically follow the monthly Facepunch cadence — first Thursday at 19:00 UTC — because most no-BP-wipe servers are running the latest Rust patch and need to wipe the map to deploy each monthly content update. A few hosts wipe more frequently (bi-weekly map / no BP wipe) for a middle-ground experience. Check the server description for the exact map-wipe schedule. Our live wipe countdown works for any server that follows the official monthly Thursday cadence.