What Time Is Rust Force Wipe? UK and Berlin Local Times

The next scheduled Rust force wipe is Thursday, November 5, 2026, the first Thursday of the month. Release and server restart times should be confirmed in their announcements. Facepunch’s monthly PC release normally arrives on the first Thursday and requires a map wipe when a server updates. Servers restart on their own schedules, so release time is not a promise that every server is already joinable.

The timing comes from the official Facepunch wiki: the default server wipe timer fires at 19:00 London time (Europe/London). Because the timer is anchored to London rather than UTC, the UK wall-clock hour never moves, 19:00 in summer and 19:00 in winter, and Central Europe gets 20:00 all year round.

For the next date itself, the wipe countdown and release tracker runs a live clock and, on wipe day, reads Steam to show whether the build, the server update and the client update have gone out yet.

Everything on the map goes with it: bases, tool cupboards, deployables, stashed loot, inventories and sleepers. If you want the full breakdown of which wipe type takes what, see our force wipe vs blueprint wipe vs map wipe guide.

Convert from 19:00 UK, not from a fixed UTC hour. Some wipe sites quote a flat '19:00 UTC', which is wrong for half the year, because during British Summer Time 19:00 London is 18:00 UTC. If a page gives you a UTC hour without mentioning London time, treat it with suspicion.

Here is the default wipe-timer moment in the timezones people actually search for:

• UK: 19:00 (Europe/London), the Facepunch wiki's default wipe timer, same wall-clock hour year-round
• Central Europe: 20:00 CEST in summer, 20:00 CET in winter, so 20:00 Berlin time all year
• US Eastern: around 2 PM, also the window when the monthly update itself typically deploys (18:00 to 19:00 UTC depending on daylight saving)

The 19:00 London timer is a default setting, not a launch event. A force wipe cannot actually finish until Facepunch publishes the monthly update, and that update deploys around 2 PM US Eastern, which is 18:00 to 19:00 UTC depending on daylight saving. The precise hour shifts slightly from patch to patch.

Server owners then have to pull the new build, update the server and bring it back up on a fresh map. That pipeline is why many servers announce force wipe as 20:00 Berlin local time (CET/CEST) while the real moment lands between 20:00 and 21:00. The schedule is fixed; the final hour belongs to Facepunch.

Blueprint behaviour at force wipe changed recently, and a lot of older guides have not caught up. Before November 2025, blueprints survived force wipes by default; Facepunch only cleared them in occasional global BP wipes.

Since the November 2025 update, official Facepunch servers wipe blueprints at every monthly force wipe. Community servers still choose their own policy: the forced monthly BP wipe applies only to officials. Rustafied covered the change on October 30, 2025.