Facepunch force wipes on the first Thursday of every month at 19:00 UK. Every official and community server has to come back on a fresh map. People google the time, land on a random countdown, and still argue about whether it is 19:00 London or 2pm Eastern.
That is exactly why I put a force wipe HUD on my own Rust hub. A full page at rust.simontodd.me/wipe, and the same clock on the landing page at rust.simontodd.me.
The Problem
Wipe night is a calendar event and a ritual. The date is easy. First Thursday. The hour is the bit people get wrong, because London stays on 19:00 while UTC jumps with British Summer Time.
I already had Companion for the squad overlay and Warden for the dedicated server. The hub at rust.simontodd.me was two product cards and a sentence. Fine for downloads. Useless if you opened it on wipe day and wanted to know how long you had left.
What It Does
The wipe page is a lookout HUD over a Rust landscape. From the glass you get:
- The official clock. Days, hours, minutes, seconds to the next first Thursday at 19:00 Europe/London.
- Local time. Same instant in your timezone, so you are not converting BST by hand.
- Weekly as well. Officials also wipe on the other Thursdays. The panel shows the next one.
- Targets. Launch, Airfield, Water Treatment, Power Plant, Train Yard, Satcom. Flavour coords for immersion, not a live map.
- A device, not a widget. Red glass boxes, a compass strip, distance reticles on the plant and the dish.
On a phone the wooden frame and compass drop away. The countdown stays first. Targets go two across so it still reads as a HUD, not a long article.
It Lives on the Hub Too
The landing page now has the same art and the same timer between the hero and the Companion / Warden cards. Click the strip and you are in the full HUD.
One script drives both clocks. After 19:00 UK on wipe day it rolls to the next first Thursday. No leftover zero sitting there until I remember to edit a date.
Getting Started
There is nothing to install. Open the page:
- Go to rust.simontodd.me/wipe for the full HUD.
- Or start at rust.simontodd.me and use the countdown on the landing page.
- Companion and Warden are still next to it if you want the overlay or the desktop server app.
Why Build It
Same reason I built Companion and Warden. I was tired of sending people off my own site to check a time that Facepunch already publishes. If the hub is home for the Rust tools, wipe night should be on it too.
So I built it.
Try It
If you play or host Rust and you want the next force wipe without hunting a third party countdown, it is at rust.simontodd.me/wipe.
Questions, or something you want on the HUD that is not there yet: get in touch.