The GuavaHost Rust Wiper lets you schedule automatic map and blueprint wipes, roll a fresh seed and map size, and announce the wipe to your Discord, all from inside your server panel.
What the Rust Wiper does
The Rust Wiper is a built-in GuavaHost tool that handles the two kinds of Rust wipe for you:
- A map wipe generates a brand new world and clears everything built or placed in it. Bases, deployables and loot are gone, but players keep their learned blueprints.
- A blueprint wipe (also called a BP wipe or force wipe) additionally resets every player's learned blueprints, so the whole server starts researching from scratch.
Instead of deleting save files by hand, you set a schedule once and the Wiper runs it, optionally rolling a new seed and map size and posting an announcement to Discord.
Setting up a scheduled wipe
- Open your server in the panel and launch the Rust Wiper tool.
- Choose the wipe type: map only, or map plus blueprints.
- Set the cadence, for example weekly, every two weeks, or monthly, and pick the day and time.
- Turn on Roll seed and, if you want, Roll map size so each wipe brings a fresh map.
- Enable the Discord announcement if you want players notified automatically.
- Save. The Wiper now runs on its own at the time you set.
You can also trigger a manual wipe from the same screen whenever you need one outside the schedule.
Choosing map vs blueprint wipe
- Map wipe only is the usual weekly choice. It keeps progression feeling fresh without punishing players who spent time researching.
- Map plus blueprint wipe is the classic monthly force wipe that lines up with Facepunch's own forced client update on the first Thursday of each month.
A common rhythm is a map wipe every week and a blueprint wipe once a month, but pick whatever fits your community.
Rolling the seed and map size
The seed is the number Rust uses to generate the map layout. A new seed means a completely different map. If you turn on seed rolling, the Wiper picks a fresh one for you each cycle so you do not have to. Map size (worldsize) controls how large the world is. Rolling it adds variety, but remember that a bigger map uses noticeably more RAM, so keep an eye on your memory if you let it climb.
After a seed or size change, Rust regenerates the world on the next boot, which can take a few minutes on larger maps. That is normal.
After a wipe
Take a snapshot on the Backups tab before your first live wipe so you have a safety net. It is also worth updating your server name or description with the new wipe date so returning players can see the schedule at a glance. With the Discord announcement enabled, your community gets pinged automatically the moment the fresh map goes live.
Still stuck? Jump into our Discord at discord.gg/GuavaHost and the team will help you out.