Rust Base Designs

A bunkered 2x2 — the Solo Base on this page. The reference build costs 5,980 metal frags · 2,345 wood · 2 gears, sits low enough in Rust's upkeep brackets to hold alone, and the cheapest way to its loot room the planner finds is 2× sheet metal door, 1× garage door, 6,900 sulfur. A 2x1 is cheaper but barely slows anyone down; anything larger costs a solo player more upkeep than one person can comfortably farm.

It depends on how many blocks, which shapes and what grade. A wall or foundation costs 200 wood, 300 stone, 200 metal fragments or 25 high quality metal to upgrade; a floor, roof or frame costs half that and a doorway or window 70%, on top of the twig each block is placed as (50 wood for a wall). So the 28-block stone 2x2 here is 7,020 stone · 300 metal frags · 2,170 wood with its doors and cupboard, not 28 walls' worth. Every design lists its pieces so you can check the total.

By building-block count, in brackets. The first 15 blocks cost 10% of their build cost per day, the next 50 cost 15%, the next 125 cost 20% and every block after that 33.3%. The blended rate then applies to everything the cupboard maintains, doors included. So a 12-block starter pays 10%, a 140-block compound pays about 17%, and adding honeycomb raises both the cost and the rate charged on it.

The smallest one you can live in. Upkeep rises faster than build cost, because a bigger base is also charged a higher rate. A 1x1 starter or a 2x1 stays in the 10% bracket and is close to free to maintain, while a clan compound with a high external wall perimeter runs into tens of thousands of resources a day. Sort the comparison table by upkeep to see the full order.

That is the rockets-to-loot column — the cost of every piece on the cheapest route from outside to the loot room, doors included, because a door on the outside is what a raider actually breaks. For the designs drawn on the base planner the route is searched on the exact piece list; it uses the same per-structure raid data as our raid calculator: 4 rockets per stone wall, 8 per sheet metal wall, 15 per armored wall, 2 per sheet metal door.

Yes. These are archetypes rather than one creator's exact layout, so nothing here stops working when a specific build gets patched out. The costs behind them are re-checked against current building data each wipe cycle.