Rust is a popular multiplayer survival game where players must gather resources, craft items, build shelters, and defend themselves against other players. As you build up your base, you may find yourself needing to demolish or destroy walls you have already placed, whether to expand your base in a new direction or fix mistakes. Here are some tips on how to remove your own walls in Rust.
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Using a Building Hammer
The easiest way to demolish your own walls is by using a building hammer. As long as less than 10 minutes has passed since you originally placed the wall, you can interact with it while holding a hammer and select the “Demolish” option. This will instantly make the wall disappear so you can rebuild.
However, once 10 minutes has elapsed, this quick demolition option no longer works. At that point, you’ll have to destroy the wall manually using other methods.
Upgrading Walls to Metal
An alternative trick for destroying your own stone or sheet metal walls is to first upgrade them to metal. Then, remove all metal fragments from your tool cupboard. Over time, the metal wall will decay back to its original material due to lack of upkeep resources.
When the wall decays fully, it will disappear, allowing you to rebuild. This method takes time but lets you destroy upgraded walls without explosives.
Using Explosives
If 10 minutes have passed and you can no longer quickly demolish a wall with the hammer, explosives are the fastest way to destroy it. Craft C4 charges or rockets and set them off on the wall you want removed. Focus the explosive damage on one section to break through faster.
C4 is extremely effective, requiring only 1 charge to destroy stone walls and 2 charges to take down metal or armored. However, C4 is also expensive to craft.
Rockets can splash damage and destroy multiple walls if placed carefully. But they lack the raw explosive power of C4 against stronger structures.
Soft Side Wall Damage
All walls in Rust have a “soft side” which takes more damage from tools. While explosives and guns can blast through the hard side, using melee tools like pickaxes on the soft side is cheaper.
The downside is destroying walls via soft side damage takes much longer. Still, with enough patience and persistence, you can chip away at your own walls. Focus on weak points like doors and windows.
Decay from Lack of Upkeep
As a last resort, you can stop providing upkeep resources to the tool cupboard, allowing walls to decay over time. However, this is very slow, taking 8+ hours for metal and sheet metal walls to decay fully.
You need patience and cannot access the walled-off area during the decay period. But eventually the walls will crumble on their own without using any explosives.
Tips for Demolishing Your Own Walls
- Act fast to demolish with hammer (within 10 minutes of placing)
- Upgrade then remove upkeep for decay option
- Use C4 charges to quickly explode walls
- Chip away soft sides with melee tools
- Destroy strategic sections instead of entire walls
Base Design Tips to Allow Easier Remodeling
Here are some tips to make it easier to demolish and expand your base later on:
- Leave soft side of walls exposed in core base area
- Create removable jump-up floors instead of real ceilings
- Build important parts out of strong materials only
- Leave space between components for future expansion
- Create airlocks and honeycomb buffers to protect core
Careful base design up front will allow you much more flexibility to demolish or destroy problematic sections later.
Defending Against Raids While Remodeling
Any time you demolish parts of your own base, you also weaken its defenses against raids. Here are some precautions to take:
- Set up a temporary wooden shell outside your core base
- Keep doors locked and regularly replace the codes
- Store your most valuable loot separately while remodeling
- Have friends stand guard during the demolition process
- Work in short bursts instead of leaving yourself vulnerable too long
With smart precautions, you can safely destroy your own problematic walls while avoiding becoming a target for enemy raids.
Conclusion
Demolishing and expanding your base in Rust can be challenging but is an essential part of building the perfect fortress. Use building hammers, controlled decay, explosives, and melee soft side damage to remove walls when necessary.
Plan ahead when possible to make your base design more remodeling-friendly. And take precautions like guard duty, separate loot storage, and temporary outer walls whenever you need to destroy important internal structures, to avoid being raided.
With the right techniques and some patience, you can demolish and upgrade your base in Rust to create the ultimate stronghold. Just stay alert, as tearing down walls also temporarily opens up weaknesses for potential attacks.
