Rust Starter Base Designs
A starter base gets you through the most dangerous hours of a fresh wipe: it has to be cheap, fast to build and just secure enough to protect your first guns and your TC. The bases below are sorted by build cost, cheapest first, so you can pick one that matches your wipe-day farm.
Bunker
The Lynx V2
279
Main Base
The Tonic
490
Raid
23
Bunker
The Tokyo Trio
≈310
Main Base
The Tide
1k
Bunker
The Casual Player's Base
1k
Main Base
The Intersteller
1.4k
Bunker
The Don
1.8k
Bunker
Zypic's Triple Bunker
2k
Raid
65
Bunker
The Sunfish
2.3k
Raid
30
Bunker
Mini Open Core Solo/Duo
3k
Bunker
The Solitary
3k
Bunker
The Helm
3.4k
Bunker
The Cube Solo Heaven
3.5k
Main Base
The Lunar
2k
Bunker
Builder's Four-Bunker 2x2
≈2.3k
Main Base
Triple Bunker Cave 2023
≈7.2k
Main Base
The Solo/Duo Vault
6k
Bunker
Rusty's Hidden Solo Fort
3.4k
Main Base
The Cabin
6.9k
Bunker
The Night
7k
Main Base
The Anaconda V2
7k
Each base design above links to a full walkthrough — a video tour or an interactive 3D layout — with exact build cost, upkeep cost and raid cost. Built or found a great one we're missing? Submit it here, or design your own in the 3D base planner.
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