Rust Wipe Planner

The one wipe every server shares

Once a month Facepunch ships the Rust update, on the first Thursday of the month, in the evening UK time. The new version cannot load the old world, so every Rust server, official or community, wipes its map that day. It is the busiest evening of the month: players look for a fresh start, and every server is fresh at the same time.

The update usually lands around 19:00 UK time (19:00 GMT in winter, 18:00 UTC during British Summer Time). The exact minute moves from month to month, because servers wipe when Facepunch publishes the new server build, not at a fixed time. A server that wipes at 19:00 sharp while the update comes out at 19:20 opens on a version the new client cannot join.

Planning your own wipes around it

Most community servers wipe more often than once a month: every week, or every two weeks. A few rules keep the calendar sane:

• Pick one weekday and stick to it. Players remember "Thursday wipe" better than any date. Thursday is popular because it lines up with the force wipe.
• Skip the wipe that falls just before a force wipe. A fresh map that dies two days later frustrates everyone. The planner above crosses those out for you: set how many days before a force wipe a regular wipe is dropped.
• Never wipe the day after a force wipe. The force wipe already gave everyone a new map; the planner treats a wipe within a day of it as replaced.
• Say it in the server name and description, and with the weekly, biweekly or monthly browser tag, so players can filter for your rhythm.

Pick your cycle in the planner, check the timeline, and download your wipe days: the file holds your regular wipes and every force wipe, skipped dates left out.

What a wipe deletes

Only the map has to go on force wipe day; blueprints are the owner's call. Many servers wipe blueprints once a month, on the force wipe, and only the map in between. The wipe guide lists the exact files behind each column, and the one file you must never delete.

Keeping the dates in your calendar

• Subscribe to force wipes: your calendar app follows the next twelve and refreshes the list every day.
• Download my wipe days: a one-off file with your own cycle and the force wipes, to import or to share with your staff.
• Google Calendar: adds the next force wipe in one click.

Making wipe day automatic

With Servycore, wipe day runs on its own. The Auto-wipe system follows the same rules as this planner (your cycle, force wipes, the skip window), and on the day it waits for the new Rust build on Steam and for Oxide or Carbon to follow, stops the server, backs it up, deletes the right files, picks the next map, starts it again and checks that the world really changed. Players see a countdown in the chat and in Rust's own wipe timer, and your Discord gets the announcements before and after.