Seasonal patterns · when the population moves
When Rust servers wipe
- Wipes seen
- from 37,544 wipes
- Period
- the last 4 weeks
Two kinds of wipe matter. The monthly force wipe resets every public server at once, on the first Thursday. After that, each server keeps its own rhythm, and the week-by-hour grid below is built from wipes we counted, not from what owners advertise. Look along the rows for the days, down the columns for the hour, and you can see where the resets cluster.
When servers wipe, hour by hour through the week
A phenology chart of the last 4 weeks: one pencil dot for every hour of the week, the bigger the more servers wiped in it. Times are UTC.
Thursday evening: the force wipeThe week, hour by hour
UTC · last 4 weeks| 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | all | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon | 3,723 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tue | 3,029 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wed | 3,409 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Thu | 11,633 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fri | 7,704 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sat | 4,309 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sun | 3,737 |
Restarts are left out: a new map less than six hours after the last counts as the same wipe. Times are UTC: UK time is the same in winter and an hour ahead in summer; US East is five hours behind in winter and four in summer.
The seasons of a server
Which days the wipes fall on, what servers say they do, and the force wipes ahead.
Wipe days
share of wipes= 500 wipes
What servers say they do
servers online nowFrom the schedule tag a server publishes. "Not published" servers wipe when they like; the force wipe catches all of them.
Force wipes ahead
countdown →The first Thursday of every month at 19:00 UK time, with the game update. Last one: Thursday 1 October.
On the move today
The busiest servers about to wipe, and the ones that just did.
Wiping soon
Just wiped
Questions
Q.1How often do Rust servers wipe?
Most public servers run a weekly cycle, some a biweekly one, and a smaller group only resets at the monthly force wipe. The split between those groups changes as owners change their settings, so we recount it rather than quote a fixed figure. The counts above show what the servers were actually set to when we last refreshed.
Q.2How do I know which servers have just wiped?
The just wiped list puts servers in order of how recently their map reset, so the freshest starts come first. If your own region matters more than the clock, sort that list by country before you pick. A fresh map fills quickly: check the live count on the server population list before you commit.
Q.3Do wipes always happen to the minute the server says?
No. Owners sometimes start a wipe early, run it late or skip one between force wipes, and a restart is not the same thing as a wipe. We record a wipe when the map resets, so a server that only restarts will look quiet on this page. Where a server's next wipe is unknown, we say so rather than give an estimated time.