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Rust Raid Cost Calculator

Enter the walls and doors standing between you and the loot room, and see exactly how much C4, rockets, or satchel charges it takes — plus the cheapest loadout vs. the fastest one, and how honeycomb layers and a custom server multiplier change the bill.

Community-documented estimates, not values pulled from Rust’s game files.

Facepunch has rebalanced explosive damage and crafting costs multiple times without a full public changelog, and plenty of servers run raid-cost plugins on top of that. Treat every number here as a planning approximation — see the "Data & assumptions" tab for a full breakdown and a confidence level per figure.

Base composition

What’s standing in your way?

Count only the walls/doors you actually need to breach to reach the loot — not the whole base.

Multiplies wall counts only — doors are assumed breached once each.

Server explosive-cost multiplier

Vanilla is 1x

The multiplier scales the quantity of explosives required to breach a structure. 2x means twice as many charges needed (harder server); 0.5x means half (softer server). Craft cost per individual explosive is assumed unaffected.

Adjustable assumptions

Farming rate & scrap conversion

Both of these are illustrative, low-confidence figures — change them to match your own farming speed and server economy.

Plain-language summary

What this raid actually costs

Cheapest loadout: roughly 13,200 sulfur (≈ 660 scrap-equivalent), about 33h 0m 0s of farming at 400 sulfur/hour. The fastest loadout instead costs 13,200 sulfur but uses fewer total charges to place.

Cheapest loadout

Lowest sulfur, slower to run

Total sulfur
13,200 sulfur
Scrap-equivalent
≈ 660 scrap
Farming time
33h 0m 0s
C4
6

Fastest loadout

Fewest charges, more sulfur

Total sulfur
13,200 sulfur
Scrap-equivalent
≈ 660 scrap
Farming time
33h 0m 0s
C4
6

Per-structure breakdown

What to use on each breach point

Community-estimated figures — see the Data & assumptions tab.

StructureTo breachCheapestFastest
Sheet metal wall24 C44 C4
Sheet metal door12 C42 C4

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