Home defense. - Rust - Facepunch Forum

Right so, after having my door axed in and getting ganged up by two guys (one of which I put two rounds into their head, and they didn't go down), I would like to bring up the discussion of defending your home. Guns can do a lot, but they can only do so much when you're alone against a group of bandits. What are some other things we could have that could prevent bad people from breaking into our places? One suggestion would be to find a group of people, and build your houses next to each other. However, this is more of a "home alone" sort of thing. I would like to hear everyone's suggestions and ideas on what could make your house a little bit safer.

-snip- I had no idea this was a rust thread, popular threads really needs a filtering option or something

Seems like door spam is a common thing as defense. But honestly, creating a campground with a team and having multiple bases with rooftops is the best way to go. If anyone unknown comes, you can eliminate them if needed.

multiple doors/walls around the perimeter...

Many, many doors, that way the raiders get bored before reach your stash.

[QUOTE=LuckyLuke;41249478]Many, many doors, that way the raiders get bored before reach your stash.[/QUOTE] IT'S SO REALISTIC

Confusion, build a maze :)

If its an entire massive maze, there is a higher chance of it being found. I would love to see mines added to the game, that would be defence

well to build big and well protected houses cost alot of wood, hard for people with no stuff/ new players 4x4 house cost: 240 wood for 4 foundations, 135 wood for 9 pillars: 175 wood for 7 walls, 25 wood for 1 window, 15 wood for 1 door and 320 wood for 4 celling. total: 910 wood if prices are correct. that takes a while to farm, and if you then want expand it and add some floors the price will run away very fast and to make it as secure as possible cost alot and takes time. and at the same time try to avoid getting killed while farming wood, and even have to wait for the wood to spawn.

There you have a reason to group up with other players!

[QUOTE=stukii;41250962]There you have a reason to group up with other players![/QUOTE] absolutly, but hard if you dont know people since most KoS and communication aint that good atm and often people claim to be friendly but only to backstabb when you let the guard down or turn your back. best would be when able to creat guilds/clans or to bring alot of rl friends together, but hard atm since alpha is closed.

Dragon Shouts

[url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1283747[/url] post i made about stationary machineguns, bunkers, digging etc

I make my houses just at the edge of the radiation; close enough to ward people away, but just a little before the radiation starts to kill me. They either think I'm dead or soon to be deceased. It hasn't failed yet.

How about some hot oil you can spill, from upstairs, killing your burglar in tremendous pain of his flesh melting of his bones. that would be neat.

[QUOTE=Blairin;41253409]I make my houses just at the edge of the radiation; close enough to ward people away, but just a little before the radiation starts to kill me. They either think I'm dead or soon to be deceased. It hasn't failed yet.[/QUOTE] put half house in the radiation, and put boxes there :) when take what you need just walk to other part of house and wait for rad to go away :P

[QUOTE=DancingBear;41253437]How about some hot oil you can spill, from upstairs, killing your burglar in tremendous pain of his flesh melting of his bones. that would be neat.[/QUOTE] Murder holes and tripwire would be so freakin cool!

[QUOTE=Knockout408;41253485]Murder holes and tripwire would be so freakin cool![/QUOTE] People would abuse murder holes placing them everywhere and on spawns I am surprised I haven't seen anyone covering a spawn in wood

What about coming up with a way to claim territory, so that there are more options for structures but only on your own turf? Then you could build murder holes, bunkers, barbed wire, etc only on your plot. You could still build basic structures elsewhere, but they wouldn't have the same protections.

[QUOTE=Knockout408;41253567]What about coming up with a way to claim territory, so that there are more options for structures but only on your own turf? Then you could build murder holes, bunkers, barbed wire, etc only on your plot. You could still build basic structures elsewhere, but they wouldn't have the same protections.[/QUOTE] This game isn't a "plots" kind of game. IF you try to place a trap at spawn, the server would ban you. But this game does need traps, because this game is about bandits and raiding.

There is no real way to make sure your stuff is secure. We made a bigger house with a watch tower. They need to destroy 8 doors until they reach my storage box. Somehow within seconds a speedhacker was there and destroyed most of them. We KOS near our base because we getting camped by well known hackers for hours a day. We placed ramps all around our house, because nobody can place a foundation next to a ramp. So we are kinda secure with the climbing guys. Next lesson we had to learn is that player can build barricades into the air. Climbing guys back. The only way to defend your base is a team you play with. Without a team you cannot achieve much, unless you are in a region which dont get much visitors and you already have weapons with ammo. Today we got visited by speedhackers, a guy which could walk through walls... We defended our base yesterday and today. But we need to start over again tomorrow because i killed Psi and he filmed it and uploaded it(12:50 in his video). There is no way we can defend our base against 20+ people The only real way to keep your stuff is: Dont get attached to it. For me its fun to build up a new house or collection stuff, for some people it may be frustating, but this game is about building and raiding(some people may disagree with raiding but they added that you can destroy doors which is useful just to raid other peoples houses) This post may a bit chaotic but english isnt my native language. I'm sorry for everybody who got cancer from my post. TL;DR: Build ramps around your foundation, have a way to your roof, weapons and ammo and a team which uses a VOIP client to communicate.

yeah, sure with the rading, but to take over other players house, is kinda lame and as long as anyone can build on your foundation that will be possible :(

yeah it can be sorta like this [url]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/11/22/article-2236746-1628CC77000005DC-552_964x637.jpg[/url] they sorta just build around your house and claim it as their own

[URL="http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1282522"]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1282522[/URL] Just wanted to put this here, cause it fits along the topic, but more suggestions than help...