Live countdown to the next Rust force wipe — first Thursday of every month at 19:00 UTC. Schedule below auto-updates each month, no manual refresh needed.
Past wipes link directly to Facepunch's monthly update announcement on Steam. Future wipes have no link yet — Facepunch posts the announcement on the wipe day itself.
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The big one. Every official Facepunch server wipes the map, monuments and resources at 19:00 UTC on the first Thursday of every month. Always paired with a monthly content update.
On every official Facepunch server, blueprints now wipe alongside the map at the first-Thursday force wipe. Everyone starts back at tier-1 every month. "No BP wipe" / long-term servers exist as a community alternative for players who hate progression resets.
Most community servers wipe every Thursday at a time of the host's choosing. Faster pace, more PvP, easier for solos. Pick a server tagged "weekly" if you have less than 10 hours a week.
Every other Thursday. The middle ground between official monthly servers and weekly grindfests — long enough to build proper bases, short enough to prevent stagnation.
A force wipe in Rust is the monthly server-wide reset where every official Facepunch server simultaneously wipes its map, monuments, players, structures and resource nodes. It's the single most-anticipated event in the Rust calendar — the moment when even the most fortified mega-bases vanish and the entire server population starts naked on the beach again.
Force wipe always lands on the first Thursday of every month at 19:00 UTC (that's noon Pacific, 3 PM Eastern, 7 PM London, 8 PM Central European). Servers go down for typically 1-3 hours while Facepunch rolls out the monthly content update, then come back up with a fresh map seed and a brand-new race for kits, scrap and base spots.
The terms used to be distinct, but on modern official Facepunch servers they happen at the same time. The default model now is: both the map AND every player's learned blueprints wipe together at the first-Thursday force wipe, every month. You start each new wipe naked on the beach with nothing learned — the same as everybody else.
The historical "BP wipe was rare" framing no longer applies on default servers. If you want to keep your blueprints across wipes, you have to seek out community-run "long term" / "no BP wipe" servers, which are tagged as such in the in-game server browser. Those run a slower meta with bigger gaps between progression resets — popular among players who hate the every-month grind from stone tools.
Rust Console Edition (Xbox / PlayStation) follows a similar monthly cadence but lags PC by hours or sometimes a day — Facepunch has to push the update through Microsoft and Sony certification before it goes live. Console force wipe still typically lands on the first Thursday of the month, just later in the UTC day or early Friday. The countdown above shows the PC schedule; for console-specific timing, check the official Rust Twitter account on wipe day for the live "console servers are back" announcement.
Beyond the official Facepunch servers, the community runs thousands of modded and vanilla servers on their own wipe schedules:
Pick your wipe cadence based on your playtime. A solo with 5-10 hours a week will progress further on a weekly server than on a monthly one, because everyone else is also constrained by the short cycle.
The 24 hours before force wipe is when meta clans go on suicide-raid sprees to dump their endgame loot, and casual players just log off. If you're planning to play wipe day, the most valuable thing you can do is scout and prepare — don't go into the wipe blind:
Two reasons. First, progression caps: Rust's tech tree means a player who plays 200 hours into a wipe is meaningfully stronger than one who joined day 28 — they have AKs, full sheet metal armour, fully-stocked fridges. Without wipes, new players would never compete. Second, monthly updates: Facepunch ships a content patch every month, and force wipe is the trigger for the update to go live. The map seed change, new monuments and balance tweaks all need a clean server to deploy properly.
Force wipe is locked to 19:00 UTC. In your local time:
The countdown at the top of the page automatically converts to your browser's local time, so you don't need to do the maths yourself.