Rust Wipe Schedule

Rust force wipes on the first Thursday of every month at 19:00 UTC, when Facepunch ships the monthly update. That is the one date every server in the game follows. On top of it, most community servers run their own weekly or biweekly wipe, usually also on a Thursday, so in practice there is a wipe most weeks and a full reset once a month.

The next force wipe is the first Thursday of the coming month. The panel at the top of this page shows the exact date, the time in your region, and how many days away it is; the next twelve are listed in the calendar below.

Around 19:00 UTC — roughly 2pm US Eastern, 11am US Pacific and 9pm in Central Europe, with daylight saving shifting those local times through the year. Facepunch pushes the update at about that hour and servers restart to pick it up over the following minutes rather than all at once, so allow a little slack instead of queueing at the exact minute.

A force wipe is mandatory and monthly: the map regenerates and, on official servers, blueprints reset with it. A weekly wipe is the server owner's own choice — normally a map-only reset that leaves blueprints alone, so you keep what you have learned and start again on fresh terrain.

The monthly force wipe resets the map on every server, but whether blueprints go with it is set per server. Official servers wipe blueprints at force wipe; many community servers keep blueprints and wipe only the map. Check the server you actually play on rather than assuming.

At force wipe, effectively yes — every server has to take the update. Between force wipes they scatter: weekly servers wipe on their own chosen day, biweekly servers wipe every fourteen days counted from their own last wipe, and some run custom cycles entirely.

Console Rust runs its own update train. It usually lands in the same first-Thursday window, but the exact date and time can differ from PC, so treat the dates on this page as the PC schedule.