Rust Raid Calculator

Add every independent layer you expect to break, including different doors, walls, gates, hatches, and deployables. A plan can contain several target types at once, so two sheet metal doors, one garage door, and a tool cupboard can be calculated as one raid instead of four separate lookups.

The calculator keeps each target quantity separate and then totals the required explosives for every supported full-method route.

The lowest-sulfur result finds the available full-method route with the smallest raw sulfur total. The fewest-items result finds the route using the smallest number of explosive items.

Those results can be different. C4 uses relatively few items, while explosive ammunition can require many more rounds but use less sulfur on some targets.

Fewest items is not presented as the fastest raid. Real raid time depends on placement, reloads, weapon handling, fuse behaviour, movement, defenses, counters, and player execution.

Sulfur alone does not tell you whether a raid route is practical. The calculator expands each explosive count into sulfur, charcoal, metal fragments, low-grade fuel, cloth, tech trash, metal pipes, and rope.

Resource totals cover the modeled crafting cost of the explosive items themselves. They do not include reusable equipment such as rocket launchers or rifles, workbench construction, research scrap, armor, healing, transportation, or replacement gear.

Set the highest workbench available to remove methods you cannot currently craft. Satchels remain available at Tier 1, while the reference model requires Tier 3 for C4, rockets, and explosive 5.56 ammunition.

The optional safety buffer increases the complete explosive count after all selected targets have been added, then rounds upward to a whole item. A 10% buffer on four rockets therefore becomes five rockets.

The buffer is a planning convenience, not a guarantee. Server rules, damaged structures, raid geometry, and the exact breach path can change what is actually required.

The calculator uses Vanilla Rust reference checked September 16, 2026. Each target stores a conservative full-method reference count for C4, rockets, satchels, and explosive ammunition.

Explosive-ammo counts use Semi-Automatic Rifle (conservative full-method planning reference). Explosive 5.56 structure damage varies by weapon, so the calculator does not treat one ammunition count as universally correct for every rifle.

The app multiplies each target's reference count by the selected quantity, adds the complete raid path together, applies the optional safety buffer, and calculates crafting-resource totals for each method.

Targets are treated independently. Rocket splash, shared damage, impact geometry, soft-side damage, partially damaged structures, fire damage, melee eco-raiding, and mixed explosive finishers are not automatically credited.

A carefully executed live raid can therefore cost less than the conservative result. The calculator is intended as a planning reference rather than a promise of the exact cheapest possible raid.

Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo does not produce one universal structure-damage result across every weapon. Different rifles can produce different required round counts against the same target.

Oliv ez uses Semi-Automatic Rifle (conservative full-method planning reference) so the calculator has one explicit and reproducible baseline instead of silently mixing values from different weapons.

If another current raid guide shows a different explosive-ammo count, check which rifle, target state, server configuration, and damage assumptions it uses before treating one value as incorrect.

The Share button places the selected targets, workbench level, and safety buffer in the page URL. Opening that link restores the same raid plan without requiring an account.

Review a restored plan before relying on it, especially after a Rust update or when playing on a modded server.