Ready to dive into your first Rust raid? This guide will give you a simple and effective step-by-step guide to everything you’ll need to survive and succeed in your first raid, whether you’re planning on raiding small or raiding large.
Raiding in Rust can feel overwhelming, but with the right preparation, you’ll be able to raid a small base on your very first day!
Raiding in Rust
To achieve your first raid in Rust, you need a few key things. Weapons Explosives A place to store your valuable raid loot A game plan
Step 1: Escape Spawn Beach
When you wake up on spawn beach, you should immediately head further into the land to escape others stuck on spawn beach. Begin breaking trees and rock nodes around you to gather resources to begin building your first base.
In order to build your first base, you want to find a designated area where you wish to live. From there, craft yourself a building plan and a hammer. Once you pull out the building plan, you can hold your right mouse button down to cycle through the various builds you can place in front of you. Begin by placing 2 full square foundations down connected, then walls all around the edges of those foundations.
Now you will want to upgrade your base to increase defense and stability. To upgrade your base, you will need to take out your hammer, hold your right mouse button down while looking at the foundations, and upgrade to the material of your choosing. How much you can upgrade is dependent on how much wood or stone you have collected. Once you have walls and a roof on your home, you can enter your inventory and craft yourself a wooden door and a keylock. This will make sure that nobody else has access to open your doors and get inside your base. The necessary things for inside your base on your first day in Rust would be a furnace, chest, sleeping bag, and, of course, your workbench level 1. Make sure you place a TC (tool cupboard) in your base so you can prevent it from decaying.
Once you have a place to live, you should head out to your nearest road to begin collecting scrap and components. This is what most Rust players would call “running the road”. You can use the rock you spawn with to break any barrels you come across, which can drop both scrap and components. You also may come across brown crates & green crates on the road that can have some higher-tier loot inside of them.
Be aware, whilst you are running around attempting to collect valuables for yourself, you may come across other players with weapons, or NPCs in the game known as “Scientists”. These are men dressed in blue hazmat suits and carrying pistols across random roads. They will shoot at you if you get too close, so keep your distance, or try your luck at killing them to get some loot from their bodies!
Step 2: Recycling & Crafting
Once you have succeeded in your first road run, you make it back to your base with your scrap and components. You’ll want to find the nearest monument to you with a recycler in order to break down some of those components into scrap. Scrap is used for researching through the workbench to unlock the crafting recipes for Guns, Armour, and further defenses for your base.
There are many options for monuments to recycle within, the most popular being Outpost. Outpost is a complete Safezone where players can not kill you or take your valuables. When recycling in Outpost, there is a loss of time, and a percentage of scrap that is returned from the components you recycle. If you are recycling in a Safezone, it will take 8 seconds per cycle, compared to 5 in open PvP areas. As well as you will yield 20% less scrap and material return from the components you recycle if they are recycled inside the Safezone.
Below will be a guide for what each component is broken down into when using a recycler.
Source: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3270915594
Step 3: Explosives
Once you have recycled your components and returned to base with your scrap, you can begin researching through your workbenches tech tree, learning recipes for the weapons and explosives to craft.
Crafting explosives requires sulfur and charcoal in order to craft gunpowder. You can find sulfur nodes all across the lands as you traverse your way around. Make sure to collect as much as you can, as you will always need more sulfur. When you have gathered sulfur, you must take it back home and smelt it down to raw sulfur through your furnace. Through smelting it down, you will also get charcoal, which is used for crafting gunpowder.
Source: https://rust.fandom.com/wiki/Satchel_Charge
The Satchel Charge is the cheapest, easiest to learn Explosive item in the game. It requires 1 Rope, 4 Beancan Grenades & 1 Small Stash to craft. With the satchel charge, you can break through sheet metal doors with just 4 of them thrown onto it. Below, I will provide a full chart on how much of each explosive is required to blow through each wall or door.
Source: https://rust.fandom.com/wiki/Destruction
Step 4: Weapons
To craft your first weapon, you must once again research your way through the tech tree within the workbench. Another way to craft a gun is if you were lucky enough to find a weapon and research it yourself through a research bench. Crafting weapons can be tedious, as not only will you need to craft the weapon, but you will also need to craft the right ammunition necessary for the gun you acquire.
Choosing the gun you want to use for your very first raid can be difficult, as it comes down to what you can afford to craft and what would work best for you. Through the first workbench level, you can learn the recipe through the tech tree to craft a basic Revolver. The ammunition that the Revolver takes is pistol ammo, which can also be crafted in a level 1 workbench. It costs you 10 metal fragments and 5 gunpowder to craft 1 set of pistol ammo, which gives you 4 bullets total.
If you would prefer to take a cheaper approach, you could craft a waterpipe shotgun. Although it has much less range due to being a shotgun, it definitely still packs-a-punch close range and can be very effective for early-game raiding. The waterpipe shotgun takes handmade shells, which can be crafted through the level 1 workbench. These shells are also cheaper to craft than the previously mentioned pistol ammo, as 2 shells would only cost you 5 stone and 5 gunpowder per.
Source: Revolver: https://rust.fandom.com/wiki/Revolver
Getting yourself ready for your first raid can be challenging, but with the right steps taken, you will rise to glory within your first day on Rust. Going step by step, you will be able to collect all the resources and equipment necessary to perform and succeed in your first base raid. To make this process easier and more enjoyable, bring some friends along with you! To get started, you can check out our cheapest plans for Rust servers here. Once you have purchased your server, you can head to our helpful setup guide, which will have all of the details you require to start your Rust journey.