How long can you delay a private server wipe?

[NOVOJ]

Literally the title, me and some friends are thinking about starting a private server and want to know if the wipe can be longer than a month.

[Tintinico]

No its not possibly to delay a wipe. here is a quote from rustafied.com "The update on the first Thursday of each month is a forced wipe, meaning all servers are required to update/wipe."

[NOVOJ]

Originally posted by Tintinico:

No its not possibly to delay a wipe. here is a quote from rustafied.com "The update on the first Thursday of each month is a forced wipe, meaning all servers are required to update/wipe."

Thanks for the info

[Rob Slob]

I don't think that info is correct, that's for all the Rustafied servers.

Edit: I think there's a way for you, the server owner, to backup everything like map, bases etc, and import it when or if there's a forced wipe.

[NOVOJ]

Originally posted by Rob Slob:

I don't think that info is correct, that's for all the Rustafied servers.

Edit: I think there's a way for you, the server owner, to backup everything like map, bases etc, and import it when or if there's a forced wipe.

thanks, ill look into it

[lama]

Easiest way is to just not update the server or your game on Steam. Other methods are not guaranteed to work.

[Mapo Doufu]

the map will be wiped only if the protocol to generate the map changes, on some updates it does not change. I already kept the same map for 2 months straight.

for the blueprint the wipe will be forced occasionally, like recently when they put the skill tree
otherwise it will likely not be wiped

[Ahryess]

Originally posted by lama:

Easiest way is to just not update the server or your game on Steam. Other methods are not guaranteed to work.

But there is no way to prevent Steam from updating the game??

[Sniderman]

Originally posted by Ahryess:

Originally posted by lama:

Easiest way is to just not update the server or your game on Steam. Other methods are not guaranteed to work.

But there is no way to prevent Steam from updating the game??

There is. You can right click a game on your library and go to update and uncheck the option to auto update

[VikingDork]

Originally posted by Sniderman:

Originally posted by Ahryess:

But there is no way to prevent Steam from updating the game??

There is. You can right click a game on your library and go to update and uncheck the option to auto update

That would require every single person who plays on the server to do that... not very good.


This is a very old post and things have changed since this question has been asked... it really should get locked.