Rust Base Builder & Cost Calculator

Planning a base? Enter how many of each building piece you'll place and at which tier, and this tool instantly totals the build cost, the daily upkeep to keep it from decaying, and the raid cost to break it open. Free, in your browser, and you can share your plan with a link. Pick stone for the shell and armored for the core — it's all costed.

1. Building pieces

Enter a quantity under each tier. Foundations, walls and stairs are full blocks; doorways and windows cost 70% of a full block; floors/ceilings, roofs, ramps and triangle foundations cost about half; triangle floors are a quarter. Twig is what a block costs to place — upgrading then charges the full grade on top.

Piece TwigWoodStoneSheet MetalArmored
Foundation
Foundation Triangle
Wall
Half Wall
Low Wall
Doorway
Window Wall
Wall Frame
Floor / Ceiling
Floor Triangle
Floor Frame
Floor Frame Triangle
Roof
Roof Triangle
Stairs (Straight)
Stairs (L-shape)
Stairs (U-shape)
Stairs (Spiral)
Stairs (Spiral, Triangle)
Ramp

2. Doors & frame inserts

InsertBuild costQuantity
Wooden Door 100 Wood
Sheet Metal Door 150 Metal Fragments
Garage Door 300 Metal Fragments, 2 Gears
Armored Door 20 High Quality Metal
Wood Double Door 350 Wood
Sheet Metal Double Door 200 Metal Fragments
Armored Double Door 25 High Quality Metal, 5 Gears
Prison Cell Gate 150 Metal Fragments
Shop Front 150 Wood
Metal Shop Front 300 Metal Fragments
Wooden Window Bars 50 Wood
Metal Window Bars 25 Metal Fragments
Reinforced Glass Window 4 High Quality Metal
Strengthened Glass Window 50 Metal Fragments
Wood Shutters 200 Wood
Horizontal Embrasure 100 Metal Fragments
Vertical Embrasure 100 Metal Fragments
Ladder Hatch 300 Metal Fragments, 3 Gears
Armored Ladder Hatch 35 High Quality Metal, 6 Gears
Floor Grill 75 Metal Fragments
Ladder Hatch (Triangle) 300 Metal Fragments, 3 Gears
Armored Ladder Hatch (Triangle) 35 High Quality Metal, 6 Gears
Floor Grill (Triangle) 75 Metal Fragments

3. Deployables

ItemBuild costQuantity
Tool Cupboard 1,000 Wood
Wood Storage Box 100 Wood
Large Wood Box 250 Wood, 50 Metal Fragments
Furnace 100 Wood, 200 Stone
Large Furnace 600 Wood, 500 Stone
Auto Turret 10 High Quality Metal
Shotgun Trap 500 Wood, 250 Metal Fragments, 2 Gears
Flame Turret 200 Metal Fragments, 1 Gears
Wooden Barricade 300 Wood

Your base totals

Add some pieces above to see the build cost, upkeep and raid cost.

Build cost

Daily upkeep

Upkeep is what your Tool Cupboard burns per day. It's ~10% of build cost on a small base and climbs toward ~33% as you add more blocks — the range above covers both ends.

Raid cost

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Rockets to destroy
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Sulfur (rockets)

Raid cost is the rockets to destroy every piece (a high-end upper bound — a real raid only breaches a path). For the cheapest method per wall, see the raid cost calculator. Building and raiding get rebalanced most wipes; numbers are a close guide (RustLabs, 2026), not gospel.

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Don't want to plan from scratch?

Every design in our gallery already lists its full build cost, upkeep and rockets to raid — copy a proven base instead of pricing one. Browse by team size: solo, duo, trio, quad and clan — or filter by budget on the home page. Building this wipe? Check the wipe countdown and the bunker guide.


Other Rust base builders & planners (2026)

Want a full 3D layout editor too? Try our free 3D Rust base planner — build the layout in your browser and it prices it with the same cost engine as this page. Here's how the popular Rust base builders compare. Most are free but desktop-heavy or early-access — and none link a layout straight to its build, upkeep and raid cost on a page Google can read, the way this one does.

ToolFree?3D?Build + raid + upkeep?Biggest weakness
FORTIFY (Steam)Paid (€2.99)YesYesPaywall + desktop/Steam only; no web access
krystiandzirba (web)FreeYesBuild + raidGPU-heavy, desktop-only, missing blocks
RustyBase.ggFree2D + basic 3DBuild + raidEarly alpha, thin UI
FreshSpawn.onlineFreeYesNoRenders blank to search engines; no raid cost
This plannerFreeNo (cost only)Yes — all threeNo 3D layout here (our 3D planner covers that)

Comparison compiled 2026; tools change often — check each before relying on it.