Force wipe October 2026: Thursday 1 October
The October 2026 Rust force wipe is Thursday 1 October 2026 at 19:00 UK time (18:00 UTC · 2:00 PM US Eastern). Facepunch releases the monthly update at that moment and every Rust server wipes its map as it installs it, most within the first hour. This force wipe has happened; the next one is linked below.
Force wipe time by timezone
Your own time: Thursday 1 October 2026, 18:00 UTC. Facepunch keeps 19:00 UK year-round, so the UTC time is 18:00 in British Summer Time and 19:00 in winter.
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What happened at the October 2026 force wipe
Wipe Board watched 6,972 servers report a fresh map within three hours of the update. The busiest of them right now:
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Questions
When is the Rust force wipe in October 2026?
Thursday 1 October 2026 at 19:00 UK time, which is 18:00 UTC and 2:00 PM US Eastern. Force wipes are on the first Thursday of every month, when Facepunch releases the monthly update.
What time is the October 2026 force wipe in my timezone?
UK: 19:00 BST; Central Europe: 20:00 CEST; UTC: 18:00 UTC; US Eastern: 14:00 EDT; US Pacific: 11:00 PDT; Brazil: 15:00 -03; Türkiye: 21:00 +03; Japan: 03:00 JST on Fri 2 Oct; Sydney: 04:00 AEST on Fri 2 Oct.
Does every server wipe at the October 2026 force wipe?
Every server's map wipes when it installs the monthly update, usually within an hour of release. Whether blueprints wipe too is up to each server: it happens only where the owner scheduled a BP wipe or Facepunch announced a global one. Wipe Board recorded 6,972 populated servers starting a fresh map within three hours of the update.
What should I do on force wipe day?
Pick the server before the update lands (the board's Today tab lists every wipe in your local time), be online at release, and expect 5 to 30 minutes of downtime while servers install the update. Population peaks in the first three hours.
Dates follow Facepunch's fixed cadence (first Thursday of the month, 19:00 UK); the patch notes at rust.facepunch.com are the final word if a release shifts by a day. Scheduled and observed wipes come from Wipe Board's own data, read directly from the game servers via Steam. How Wipe Board works.