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, doorways and windows are full blocks; floors/ceilings and roofs cost about half.

Piece WoodStoneSheet MetalArmored
Foundation
Wall
Doorway
Window Wall
Floor / Ceiling
Roof

2. Doors

DoorBuild costQuantity
Wooden Door 100 Wood
Sheet Metal Door 150 Metal Fragments
Garage Door 300 Metal Fragments, 2 Gears
Armored Door 20 High Quality Metal

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

0
Rockets to destroy
0
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.


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? 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 (cost planner, not an editor)

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