Ultimate Base & Compound Defense Guide | Rust Tutorial

Are you tired of waking up to a completely empty base and want to survive for more than just one night? In this video, we’ll explore the best strategies for base and compound defence to not only deter raiders but also stop them in their tracks.

Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
00:19 - Base Defence
00:32 - Base Defence: Location
01:20 - Base Defence: Design
02:12 - Base Defence: Design - Tricks
02:30 - Base Defence: Design - Surfaces
03:10 - Base Defence: Design - Bunkers
03:39 - Base Defence: Alerts
04:12 - Base Defence: Fighting
04:53 - Base Defence: Traps
05:37 - Compound Defence
05:54 - Compound Defence: Walls
07:29 - Compound Defence: Placement
09:11 - Compound Defence: SAM Sites
11:41 - Compound Defence: Auto Turrets
12:50 - Compound Defence: Spikes
13:10 - Compound Defence: Alerts
13:26 - Compound Defence: Traps

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[sirbanana]

I've been playing rust for nearly 2years and have gotten abt 3k hours, Jfarr was here when I started and now.

[baska-]

If I had to give 3 quick and extremely easy tips to help against offline raids if you're a solo or small group:
1- grief your own base with wood before logging off: looks like your base is already raided;
2- don't build tall bases: tall bases are easier to spot and usually make people more curious;
3- do not build a compound: compounds make offline raiding easier and counter raiding harder.

[gooserevolt]

As a veteran with several thousand hours I already know pretty much everything in your videos but I still enjoy watching them because of your high production quality and good editing. Keep up the good work my man

[eKostiK]

Great video!
I would also add leaving your compound gates/doors open if you dont have compound turrets when you go offline. This will greatly help counter raiders with possibly saving your base. Otherwise the compound walls will provide cover for the raiders to finish their job in peace.
Once you have turrets, then you could keep the gates closed to prevent grubs from draining your turret ammo while youre offline.

[ponnis]

Simply the most well-made and professional Rust content every single time.

[Jageeri]

I love watching Jfarr's videos even though I play rust console 😭

[plasmaman]

The pipes on top of industrial lights or whatever else you can attach them on top of is the best way to keep ppl from laddering over a wall or up the side of your base. If there is a gap between the pipe and the wall, it will not let a ladder be placed.

[TheBookofLab]

Not a single mention of rocket pvp... bro is truly a man of upmost honor 😌👌

[johnwainwright]

Thanks for all your videos, im new to Rust, playing on PS5, and as a "noob" it's been a real challenge, i've watched a lot of help videos but yours are the only one's that really help and resonate with me. I'm really enjoying the game, and whilst I get raided at least twice a week and often lose my base, im getting better and better each week with better bases and better strategies, and most of it is down to your videos, so thankyou! :)

[Apfellinox]

In my opinion your the best explainer ive ever seen, you create your videos so, that everybody can understand em. Also the effects and editing is nice.
I Love your videos, keep up❤

[comensee]

Many of the points noted here are important, but you should also highlight HOW people usually raid.

1. The majority of raids (90%+) are going to be offline. It's pretty rare you'll actually get an online raid unless you're on some big active vanilla server with zerg clans.
2. Most raiders prefer to raid through the doorpaths, but will resort to rocketing walls and roofs if they think it will be easier to get in. Fake entrances is a way to absolutely troll people.
3. Most raiders pummel at ground level if they're using rockets because that's usually where they're standing. I prefer to put my TC and loot on the upper levels of the base. I've made clan bases where the entire first two floors are just walls and people waste all their boom trying to pummel where they think the tc is.
4. If you have a shooting floor on your base: that is often your main weakpoint. I've seen and been in plenty of raids where people blow a hole in the shooting floor, ladder up, and basically take over the base. I prefer to make my roof the main shooting floor.
5. There's a lot of good base designs that go against the typical norms. Look up Mavericks redoubt base and you'll see it's a "coreless" base with no main loot area. It's all spread out in 3 different bunkers the raiders need to play russian roulette to find.
6. You can use deployables to beef up your bases defense at no cost. You can spam lockers and pick them up with a hammer after.

[LCBC]

Jfarr you are the best rust helping youtuber out there, I hope you will do great

[kilu]

Another great thing is to connect your batteries into 1 circuit. If 1 battery gets destroyed you still have power to all turrets. The worst thing to happen in a online raid def is to loose your roof/ compound turrets just because they destroyed the batteries.

[mij]

Love the videos man. The quality keeps on going up with each one. You really deserve more subs.

[anthonyroom]

Another solid video, always happy when I see you've uploaded a new vod!

[albertthescientist]

Iirc the base at 3:20 doesn’t work anymore. Because the fire of inc rockets or Molly’s can now destroy the twig and open it for raiders. Was always my favorite. Has there been a change back?

[mintai__]

The goat us back again with another banger, great video man

[kitzmann]

Hey @Jfarr,
first nice video.

One thing is not quite correct (10:20), you can not connect two or four sams to the batteries. There is no passthrough, so a branch or splitter is needed, these also need power so that this is then missing. Example a large battery gives 100 current, 4 Sams need also 100, only the current for the splitter is missing.

Thanks and keep up the great videos!

Should I be wrong with it I apologize ;)

[RapFa-Hater]

one thing i would add is using shift while placing external walls for an alternative view and movement, but i really suck at connecting compounds, thank god i play on servers with /remove :D

[maximilian_at]

Your videos have helped me sooo much to get into rust!!! You deserve more fame!❤