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Rust Decay Calculator

Enter your building materials and tool cupboard resources to see exactly how long until decay starts, how long your upkeep lasts, and how a server’s custom decay multiplier changes the math.

These decay and upkeep figures are community-documented estimates, not values pulled from Rust’s game files. Facepunch has reworked decay and upkeep balance multiple times without a full public changelog. Treat every number on this page as a planning approximation and confirm against your target server’s current rules — see the “Data & assumptions” tab for a full breakdown and confidence level per figure.

Building composition

How many blocks per tier?

Count the exterior walls/foundations that would actually decay first — not every honeycomb layer. Don’t want to count? Use a rough estimate below.

Server decay multiplier

Vanilla is 1x

Convention used here: the multiplier scales decay speed. 2x means blocks decay twice as fast (half the time to destroy). 0.5x means decay is half as fast (twice the time to destroy). Most Oxide decay plugins leave upkeep resource cost alone and only change this speed.

Tool cupboard contents

What’s in the TC right now?

Used to estimate how many hours your current upkeep stash covers.

Result

Time until raidable from decay

Once upkeep fully runs out, this is how long until the weakest tier in your composition decays away and opens a hole — at your chosen multiplier.

Weakest exposed tier decays in
3h 0m

Based on your wood being the fastest-decaying tier present, once upkeep fully stops.

Per-material decay timers

Unprotected decay time, at this multiplier

Twig
1h 0m
Wood
3h 0m
Stone
5h 0m
Sheet metal
8h 0m
Armored
12h 0m

Upkeep

Resources consumed per hour

Sum of your composition’s hourly upkeep draw. Twig is not included — it commonly can’t be decay-protected by a Tool Cupboard at all (see Data tab).

Wood / hour
400

Tool cupboard duration

How long your TC contents last

Wood lasts
5h 0m
Runs out in (earliest resource)
5h 0m

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