How to Demolish Walls in Rust

Rust is a multiplayer video game that is all about survival. Unlike most survival video games, though, the threats in Rust aren’t zombies or monsters. Instead, players have to watch out for things like animals, other players. Hunger, health, thirst, cold, and other natural conditions can also play a factor in the player’s ability to survive.

When your body temperature in Rust drops below 5 degrees Celsius, the “Too Cold” effect is put into place. At this point, you have to race against time because your avatar starts taking damage. Building a refuge goes without saying in Rust. A firm set of walls help protect you against environmental factors as well as enemies.

Taking down walls is not as straightforward as it seems, though.

Discover how to take down different types of walls and increase your survival in the game.

How to Demolish Walls in Rust

Rust has a particular mechanic that allows you to fix your construction mistakes within a specific timeframe. When you put a wall into place, you have 10 minutes to remove it. This is a great mechanic that helps the player avoid going through a lot of trouble due to a placement mistake.

However, realism is emphasized in this game, and being able to magically remove walls and move them around is somewhat unrealistic. So, after you’ve placed a wall and a few minutes have passed, it’s going to stay there. There are only a few options that can help you tear it down.

How to Demolish Walls in Rust With a Hammer

If you’re expecting that you’ll be hitting the wall with a hammer to tear it down, you’ll be disappointed. In this case, you’re upgrading the wall to remove it. Using the hammer tool, upgrade the stone wall into a sheet metal wall. Then, remove all sheet metal supplies from the cupboard to avoid auto-repair.

Unfortunately, you can’t just remove sheet metal walls either. You’re going to have to wait for it to decay. This can take a while, though, as sheet metal takes around eight hours to fully decay into nothingness. Upgrading the wall using a hammer isn’t the quickest method of demolishing a wall, but it is relatively clean.

Keep in mind, though, that you’ll want to be online at the point of the sheet metal wall decay. Otherwise, your house will be left open for anyone to loot it.

How to Delete Walls in Rust

As mentioned earlier, after you’ve placed a wall, you’re allowed some time to remove it. To be precise, you get 10 minutes to do this after you’ve placed the object down. But it’s not just about selecting “Delete.” During the 10-minute placement period, you can move the wall, too, to place it in a better position. After the period ends, the wall is rendered immovable and what you set, you keep.

​​How to Demolish Your Own Walls in Rust

The most straightforward way to demolish your walls in Rust is to use the C4 method. That’s right; you can use a C4 explosive to remove an entire wall. Creating the C4 item is expensive and takes a lot of time. But it’s the only reasonable way to remove some permanently placed walls.

If you want to go into demolition mode, the item you need is a “Timed Explosive Charge.” These charges can be stuck to the object that you want to destroy. To create the Timed Explosive Charge, you’re going to need a whole lot of resources. Here are the three components necessary:

• 20 Explosives
  
• 5 Cloth
  
• 5 Tech Trash
  

Although this may not seem like much, the mentioned three ingredients are somewhat challenging to make. Here are all the raw materials that you’re going to need to make those components:

• 3,000 Charcoal – used to craft Gunpowder, further leading to Explosives
  
• 2,200 Sulfur – for crafting Gunpowder, leading to Explosives
  
• 200 Metal Fragments – for Explosives
• 60 Low-Grade Fuel – for crafting Explosives
  
• 5 Cloth – for the Timed Explosive Charge
  
• 2 Tech Trash – for the Timed Explosive Charge
  

To make things even more complicated, you’ll also need around 2,500 Wood as Furnace fuel for ore smelting. Crafting C4 is quite tricky, too. And after all of that, you can only destroy a single wall with the Timed Explosive Charge. The best way to go about things would be to build your Rust house carefully.

How to Demolish Wood Walls in Rust

Wood walls in Rust are purposefully weak on the inside. You want to be on the weak side of the wall so look for the side that’s flat and light brown. If you see a darker brown tree bark shade, you’re on the strong side of the wall and it won’t come down any time soon.

Here are some damage multipliers for the weak side of the wall. In other words, how many “impacts” it’s going to take to destroy a wooden wall.

• 1x with Explosives
• 1.2x with Explosive Bullets/Incendiary Shells
• 2x with Buckshot, Slugs, and Bullets
• 10x with Melee weapons and Tools

The obvious downside to a wooden construction is that the other players can destroy the walls fairly easily, as well. It may take more struggle compared to the weak side, but it’s still doable.

How to Demolish Metal Walls in Rust

In Rust Legacy, metal walls used to be a great construction option. They were very resilient and required using four Explosives to be destroyed. Unfortunately, Legacy is no longer available to players so now they have to contend with metal walls, which deteriorate over time. The only thing you need to demolish sheet metal walls is time.

If you want to remove metal walls, start by taking out all your sheet metal supplies from the cupboard. Next, wait for around eight hours. After eight hours, the metal walls deteriorate and disappear on their own.

How to Demolish Stone Walls in Rust

Unlike wood and sheet metal, stone walls are extremely resilient. The only way to destroy them (from inside or the outside) is to use a Timed Explosive Charge (C4). They require a lot of resources, though, so you’re going to have to decide if demolishing it is worth the effort.

How to Demolish Walls Fast in Rust

The quickest way to demolish walls (and anything else) in Rust is crafting and using the Timed Explosive Charge mentioned above. With that said, it may take you some time to gather all the necessary items.

Additional FAQs

1. What to do if you misplace a wall in Rust?

Wall placement has a time limit for editing placement. After time runs out, the player can’t “move” an incorrectly placed wall – it has to be destroyed. However, there is a 10-minute window upon placing the item that allows the player to “pick up” the wall and move it to another location. Rust forgives you for misplacing a wall, but it is punishing if you don’t notice the misplacement in time.

2. How many spears does it take to break a stone wall in Rust?

You cannot hope to break a stone wall using spears in Rust. In theory, it is doable, as a stone wall does take damage from non-C4 items. However, the number of spears that you’d need is substantial.

Don’t use spears to break a stone wall in Rust. The only truly viable option (that doesn’t take ages and repetitive hits) is the Timed Explosive Charge. It destroys any wall it’s placed on instantaneously.

3. How much does it cost to destroy a stone wall in Rust?

Let’s say that you’ve forgotten about any other method other than using the C4. The cost of destroying a stone wall, in this case, is equivalent to the cost of a Timed Explosive Charge item. The C4 first needs to be researched, which costs 500 scrap. Then, there’s a full list (noted earlier in the article) of raw ingredients required to craft it.

4. How do you repair walls in Rust?

You’ll need the corresponding resources to repair it, so it depends on the wall. For stone walls, the required ingredient is stone; for metal walls, it’s metal, etc. So, provided that you have a sufficient amount of the material, approach the wall, take out the hammer and start with the repairs by hitting the wall. Keep in mind, though, that you need the building privilege is needed for this.

5. How do you remove a shed wall in Rust?

Shed walls work like house walls in Rust. If your shed is made out of wood, refer to the “How to Demolish Wood Walls in Rust” section above. If the wall is made out of stone/metal, refer to the corresponding sections.

6. How do you remove a wall in Rust?

The only way to remove a wall in this game without having to demolish it is by doing it within 10 minutes after placing it. This is a time window during which the wall that you’ve put in place can be “picked up” and moved to another location or removed. After the 10 minutes have passed, you pretty much have to destroy it to remove it.

Rust and Wall Removal

Taking down walls in Rust isn’t impossible, but the difficulty does depend on the wall’s material. Stone walls are notoriously hard to destroy, while wood walls will give way to various tools much easier. So, you may have to work a little or a lot depending on the wall. Whichever method you go with here, make sure to approach it from the weaker (inner) side.

We hope that this article has helped you deal with walls in Rust. If you have any additional questions or tips to add, don’t be reluctant about hitting the comments section below.