Rust Eco Raid Calculator

How to Use the Rust Eco Raid Calculator

This Rust eco raid calculator prices a raid in tools, fire and grenades instead of C4 and rockets. It is built for solos, duos and early wipe groups that have no sulfur stockpile yet but still want into a base.

1. Add your targets. Click a wall, door, window or deployable to add it. Click again, or use the + and − buttons, to change the count.
2. Pick a side. Choose soft side or hard side. This only changes building walls, which take about 10x more melee damage from the soft side. Doors, windows and high external walls have no soft side.
3. Pick an eco method. Every method is listed with the count and time for your whole raid, fastest first. Methods that can’t damage one of your targets are greyed out. Best no-sulfur mix uses the fastest sulfur-free option for each target.
4. Read the craft list. The calculator turns the tools into raw resources (wood, metal fragments, scrap, cloth, low grade fuel and sulfur) so you know what to farm.

What Is Eco Raiding in Rust?

Eco raiding means breaking into a base without high-tier explosives. Instead of C4 and rockets you use cheap melee tools on the weak side of building blocks, fire on wooden parts, and small amounts of sulfur in beancan grenades. It costs far less sulfur, but it is slower and much louder for longer, so it works best on offline bases, small builds and bases with wooden or soft-side weak points.

Eco raiding gets weaker as a wipe goes on. Day one bases are mostly wood and stone, which eco raids well. By the end of the wipe most bases are sheet metal and armored with metal doors, and at that point C4 is cheaper. Check the next Rust force wipe date to see how much wipe is left.

Rust Eco Raid Chart

The fastest sulfur-free option for every target, compared with beancans. Walls are shown from the soft side. Times are hitting time only, not crafting time.

Target	Best sulfur-free	Time	Beancans
Twig Wall (soft)	1 salvaged axe	16 sec	1 (120 sulfur)
Wooden Wall (soft)	1 salvaged axe	42 sec	13 (1,560 sulfur)
Stone Wall (soft)	7 salvaged icepicks	8 min	46 (5,520 sulfur)
Sheet Metal Wall (soft)	Not practical	—	112 (13,440 sulfur)
Armored Wall (soft)	Not practical	—	223 (26,760 sulfur)
Wooden Door	2 molotovs	20 sec	6 (720 sulfur)
Wood Double Door	2 molotovs	20 sec	6 (720 sulfur)
Sheet Metal Door	Not practical	—	18 (2,160 sulfur)
Garage Door	Not practical	—	42 (5,040 sulfur)
Armored Door	Not practical	—	69 (8,280 sulfur)
Ladder Hatch	Not practical	—	18 (2,160 sulfur)
Wooden Window Bars	4 molotovs	22 sec	13 (1,560 sulfur)
Metal Window Bars	Not practical	—	56 (6,720 sulfur)
High External Wooden Wall	7 molotovs	24 sec	26 (3,120 sulfur)
High External Stone Wall	Not practical	—	46 (5,520 sulfur)
Tool Cupboard	1 molotov	18 sec	4 (480 sulfur)
Auto Turret	1 salvaged hammer	34 sec	16 (1,920 sulfur)

Soft Side vs Hard Side

Every building block in Rust has a hard side and a soft side. Melee tools do around 10x more damage to the soft side, and the soft side is meant to face inside your base. Builders who place walls the wrong way round, or leave a stone wall soft side facing out, give eco raiders a free way in.

• Stone: the hard side shows fitted, cut blocks. The soft side is flat and pebbly.
• Wood: the soft side is the one with the support struts and framing. The hard side is the flat log face.
• Doors, windows and high external walls have no soft side. They take the same damage from both directions.
• Explosives, fire and beancans ignore sides. Only melee tools care.

Stone wall: soft side vs hard side

Tool	Soft side	Hard side
Salvaged Icepick	7 salvaged icepicks 8 min	64 salvaged icepicks 1 h 15 min
Pickaxe	7 pickaxes 11 min	72 pickaxes 1 h 45 min
Salvaged Axe	10 salvaged axes 11 min	94 salvaged axes 1 h 51 min
Hatchet	15 hatchets 15 min	150 hatchets 2 h 32 min
Stone Pickaxe	33 stone pickaxes 12 min	340 stone pickaxes 2 h 3 min
Stone Spear	26 stone spears 8 min	260 stone spears 1 h 16 min
Jackhammer	9 charges 2 min	88 charges 18 min

How to Eco Raid Wood

Fire is the cheapest way through wood. Molotovs, fire arrows and the flamethrower all burn wooden walls, doors, gates, window bars, the tool cupboard and most wooden deployables. Fire does nothing to stone, sheet metal or armored blocks.

Target	Molotovs	Fire arrows	Flamethrower fuel	Beancans	Salvaged axes
Wooden Wall (soft)	4	125	206	13	1
Wooden Door	2	50	83	6	7
Wooden Window Bars	4	125	206	13	6
High External Wooden Wall	7	250	412	26	12
Tool Cupboard	1	6	42	4	4
Auto Turret	7	46	412	16	1

A molotov costs 50 low grade fuel and 10 cloth at a Workbench 2. Fire arrows only need a Workbench 1 and a hunting bow, which makes them the best early option: 50 fire arrows break a wooden door and 6 break a tool cupboard. If you can’t get fuel, a salvaged axe on the soft side of a wooden wall breaks it with just 1 tool.

How to Eco Raid a Stone Wall

Stone is where eco raiding earns its name. From the soft side a stone wall falls to a handful of tools. From the hard side it takes ten times more, and beancans are the better choice.

Tool	Stone wall (soft)	Time	Craft
Salvaged Icepick	7 salvaged icepicks	8 min	Workbench 2: 1 pipe, 5 blades
Pickaxe	7 pickaxes	11 min	Workbench 1: 100 wood, 125 frags
Salvaged Axe	10 salvaged axes	11 min	Workbench 2: 1 pipe, 5 blades
Hatchet	15 hatchets	15 min	Workbench 1: 100 wood, 75 frags
Stone Spear	26 stone spears	8 min	No workbench: 300 wood, 20 stones
Stone Pickaxe	33 stone pickaxes	12 min	No workbench: 200 wood, 100 stones
Jackhammer	9 charges	2 min	Loot only

The surprise on that list is the stone spear. It needs no workbench, only 300 wood and 20 stones, and 26 of them break a stone wall soft side about as fast as salvaged icepicks. That makes spears the go-to fresh-wipe eco raid when you have no scrap or metal yet.

How to Eco Raid Doors

Doors have no soft side, so tools are slow on them. Wooden doors burn. Every metal door is a beancan job, or a C4 or explo ammo job if you have the sulfur.

Door	Sulfur-free	Beancans	F1 grenades
Wooden Door	2 molotovs	6 (720 sulfur)	23 (1,380 sulfur)
Wood Double Door	2 molotovs	6 (720 sulfur)	23 (1,380 sulfur)
Sheet Metal Door	—	18 (2,160 sulfur)	50 (3,000 sulfur)
Sheet Metal Double Door	—	18 (2,160 sulfur)	50 (3,000 sulfur)
Garage Door	—	42 (5,040 sulfur)	120 (7,200 sulfur)
Armored Door	—	69 (8,280 sulfur)	200 (12,000 sulfur)
Armored Double Door	—	69 (8,280 sulfur)	200 (12,000 sulfur)
Ladder Hatch	—	18 (2,160 sulfur)	50 (3,000 sulfur)
High External Wooden Gate	7 molotovs	26 (3,120 sulfur)	118 (7,080 sulfur)
High External Stone Gate	—	46 (5,520 sulfur)	182 (10,920 sulfur)

A beancan grenade costs 60 gunpowder (120 sulfur) and 20 metal fragments, so 18 beancans for a sheet metal door is 2,160 sulfur. That is more sulfur than 63 explosive ammo (1,575 sulfur), but you don’t need a rifle, and beancans only need a Workbench 1. Beancans are also a dud risk: some fail to go off and have to be picked up and thrown again. F1 grenades are half the sulfur each but do far less to doors, so they cost more overall.

Can You Eco Raid Sheet Metal or Armored?

Technically yes, realistically no. A sheet metal wall takes 30 salvaged icepicks from the soft side (about 35 minutes of hitting) or 112 beancans (13,440 sulfur). Four C4 do the same job for 8,800 sulfur in seconds. An armored wall takes 223 beancans. Once you hit metal, switch to the raid calculator and bring real boom.

Rust Eco Raiding Tips

• Look for wood. A wooden door, wooden window bars or a wooden high external gate is a fire target even on a stone base.
• Find a soft side. Walk the base before you swing. Many builders leave a soft side out on a single wall, a doorway or a half wall.
• Burn the TC, not the walls. One molotov or 6 fire arrows kill a tool cupboard, after which the base starts to decay and you can build in.
• Kill turrets with melee. An auto turret goes down to a single salvaged axe once you reach it, much cheaper than satchels.
• Carry spares. Bring a tool or two more than the calculator shows. A swing that misses the wall still costs durability.
• Bring a repair plan. A repair bench or workbench nearby lets you repair tools mid-raid instead of crafting new ones.

Rust Eco Raid FAQ

Counts come from Rust’s vanilla damage and durability data and assume full-durability tools and every hit or throw landing. Modded servers can change building HP, tool damage and crafting costs.