Where does Wipe Board get its data?

From the the game servers API: every online Rust server's name, population, last wipe time and declared wipe schedule, refreshed every 10 minutes (servers wiping soon or just wiped: every minute). On 09 October 2026 that was 11,640 servers.

What is the difference between an owner-declared and a detected schedule?

Owner-declared schedules are entered by the server owner on the game servers and are reliable. Detected schedules are the game servers' inference from past wipes and can be wrong, so Wipe Board labels each one.

What does 'due but not yet seen' mean?

The scheduled wipe time has passed but the server has not reported a new map yet. Either the wipe is late, the schedule is wrong, or the server restarts slowly. Wipe Board shows it in red instead of pretending it happened.

Methodology

How Wipe Board works

Wipe Board reads the the game servers API every 10 minutes (hot servers every minute) and keeps one record per online Rust server: name, population, last wipe time, declared wipe schedule, group limit, gather rate and type. On 09 October 2026 that was 11,640 servers (Europe 5,655, North America 3,982, Asia 1,162, Oceania 461, South America 235, Africa 85, Middle East 44). It then answers three questions for each: did it just wipe, when is its next wipe, and is it overdue.

Servers tracked

11,640

With a declared schedule

2,731

Owner-verified schedules

377

Group-limited (≤3)

1,475

Vanilla

6,640

Weekly · monthly

707 · 921

Three states, three colours

Wiped, the server reports a map start time (its "born" time) inside the window. Within 3 hours of that it is marked fresh, the best moment to join. Scheduled, the server's wipe schedule has a wipe inside the window and it has not happened yet. Due, the scheduled time has passed without a new map being reported; the wipe is late or the schedule is wrong. We show that in red instead of pretending it happened.

Owner-declared vs detected

the game servers carries two kinds of schedule. Owner-declared: the server owner typed it in (day, hour, timezone, map or BP). On 09 October 2026, 377 of 2,731 scheduled servers were owner-declared. Detected: the game servers inferred it from past wipes. Detected schedules are usually right for weekly servers and often wrong for irregular ones, so every scheduled row says which it is, and the board has a one-click filter for owner-declared only.

What is left out

Offline servers. On the text pages, aim-train and arena servers (their "wipes" are restarts) and servers ranked below 8,000 on the game servers, to keep the lists readable; the live board lets you include them.

Glossary

Force wipe

The mandatory map wipe on every Rust server when Facepunch releases the monthly update, first Thursday of the month, 19:00 UK (18:00 UTC in summer). See the countdown.

Map wipe

The world resets: bases, loot, deployables and the map seed. Blueprints are kept.

BP wipe

Learned blueprints are reset, so crafting progression starts from scratch. Usually monthly, on force wipe day.

Full wipe

Map and blueprints wiped together.

Wipe cycle

How often a server wipes its map. Wipe Board derives it from the declared schedule: daily, every 2-4 days, weekly (5-9 days), biweekly (10-18), monthly.

Group limit

The maximum team size a server enforces: solo (1), duo (2), trio (3), quad (4) or no limit. Read from the game servers' groupLimit, falling back to the team-UI limit.

Gather rate

The resource multiplier compared with vanilla: 1x-2x, 5x-10x…

Use the data

The snapshot behind the site is public JSON at /api/servers (no key, refreshed every 10 minutes (servers wiping soon or just wiped: every minute), CC BY 4.0). If you build on it, a link back is appreciated.

The Wipe Board rank

Every server gets a rank recomputed on each refresh, from our own observations only: the 7-day average player count carries half the weight, current players plus queue three tenths, and the rest is uptime (how often the server answered our half-hourly checks) and schedule reliability (observed wipes landing within 30 minutes of the declared time, with a bonus for owner-declared schedules). Nobody can pay to rank higher, and there is no featured placement.