Steam Nobody raids your base. They raid the cheapest path through it — and that path is decided by your weakest layer, not your strongest. Describe what stands between the outside and your loot room, and this works out the bill an attacker actually pays.
Each layer is a ring an attacker has to get through. Add every barrier that stands at that ring — the door and the wall it hangs in — because they only have to break one of them, and they will break the cheap one.
The breach cost is a minimum — an attacker breaks one barrier per layer. Upkeep is the opposite: you pay for everything you built, every day. That asymmetry is why an extra wall is never free, and it is the number that decides whether a base survives a week away.
Add layers above and the daily bill appears here.
An Armored Door costs 6,250 sulfur to breach. The Stone Wall it hangs in costs 4,400. Nobody touches that door. Every metal fragment you spent on it bought nothing until the wall goes up a tier.
This is the whole argument for pricing a base as a path rather than a shopping list. A raid calculator will happily add your armored door to the bill. An attacker will not.
Sulfur cost to destroy one, by explosive. The green figure is the cheapest route for that structure — which is not always C4, and that is the point.
| Structure | HP | Explosive 5.56 | Beancan Grenade | Satchel Charge | HV Rocket | Rocket | C4 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wooden Door | 200 | 475 ×19 | 720 ×6 | 960 ×2 | 800 ×4 | 1,400 ×1 | 2,200 ×1 |
| Sheet Metal Door | 250 | 1,575 ×63 | 2,160 ×18 | 1,920 ×4 | 2,200 ×11 | 2,800 ×2 | 2,200 ×1 |
| Garage Door | 600 | 3,750 ×150 | 5,040 ×42 | 4,320 ×9 | 5,000 ×25 | 4,200 ×3 | 4,400 ×2 |
| Armored Door | 1000 | 6,250 ×250 | 8,280 ×69 | 7,200 ×15 | 8,400 ×42 | 7,000 ×5 | 6,600 ×3 |
| Wooden Wall | 250 | 1,225 ×49 | 1,560 ×13 | 1,440 ×3 | 1,800 ×9 | 2,800 ×2 | 2,200 ×1 |
| Stone Wall | 500 | 4,625 ×185 | 5,520 ×46 | 4,800 ×10 | 6,400 ×32 | 5,600 ×4 | 4,400 ×2 |
| Sheet Metal Wall | 1000 | 10,000 ×400 | 13,440 ×112 | 11,040 ×23 | 13,400 ×67 | 11,200 ×8 | 8,800 ×4 |
| Armored Wall | 2000 | 19,975 ×799 | 26,760 ×223 | 22,080 ×46 | 26,800 ×134 | 21,000 ×15 | 17,600 ×8 |
New players spend their first night upgrading the wrong thing. The table above says which thing, but here it is as a plan rather than a lookup.
A wooden wall breaks for 1,225 sulfur and a wooden door for 475 — less than one rocket. Stone takes the wall to 4,400, which is three and a half times the price for one tier. No other upgrade in the game moves the number that far.
A sheet metal door in a stone wall is right: 1,575 against 4,400, so the door is the way in and upgrading it further is the next real gain. An armoured door in a stone wall is wrong — it costs 6,250 that nobody will ever pay.
Every wall you add is paid for daily, whether or not anyone comes. The upkeep panel above turns that into a number. A base you cannot feed decays on its own, which is the most common way a first base is actually lost.
The thing not to worry about yet: armoured anything. It is high quality metal, it is a late-wipe material, and a stone base with the right door already costs more to break than most raiders will spend on a first-week target.
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Sulfur is one budget. These measure the other one — the hardware you play on.
It depends entirely on the cheapest barrier at each layer, not on the total of everything you built. As a reference point: a sheet metal door is 1,575 sulfur with explosive 5.56, a stone wall is 4,400 with two C4, a sheet metal wall is 8,800 with four C4 and an armoured wall is 17,600 with eight. The desk on this page takes your layers and picks the cheap route through them, which is what a raider does.
Only if the wall it hangs in is armoured too. An armoured door costs 6,250 sulfur to breach, and a stone wall costs 4,400 — so an attacker facing an armoured door in a stone frame simply takes the wall, and every metal fragment spent on that door bought nothing. Match the door tier to the block tier, or spend the resources on the block instead.
Not for explosives, which is the opposite of what most guides say. On a stone wall, C4, rockets and satchel charges cost exactly the same from either face, and explosive 5.56 differs by about six per cent. The soft side matters for melee: a pickaxe does far more damage to the weak face. That is a slow, loud job rather than a raid, so it changes how you plan against offline pickaxing, not how you price explosives.
By raw sulfur it is usually explosive 5.56 ammo, and that surprises people who assume C4. A wooden wall is 1,225 sulfur with ammo against 2,200 with C4; a sheet metal door is 1,575 against 2,200. C4 only becomes the cheapest option from stone upward. Cheapest is not the same as fastest, though — C4 breaches in seconds where ammo takes a magazine and a lot of noise.
No, and no site’s are. Facepunch does not publish a raid cost table, so every calculator on the internet including this one is working from community-maintained durability data — in this case the RustLabs tables, read on 12 September 2026 and dated on the page. When this table was cross-checked against three other calculators, three of them disagreed with it: one listed the armoured door at 800 HP and four C4 when it is 1,000 HP and three.
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