Bases
The Bases page is the inventory of your whole server: every tool cupboard, the containers around it, and what is in each one — laid out the way it looks when you open the box in game.
Reading the list
Section titled “Reading the list”| Column | Means |
|---|---|
| Location | The grid reference of the tool cupboard |
| Upkeep left | How long before the base starts decaying |
| Owner | Who placed the cupboard |
| Authed | How many players are currently authorised on it |
| Containers | Storage containers inside the cupboard’s radius |
| Items | How many occupied slots those containers hold between them |
| Boom | What the base’s explosives are worth, as a rough C4 count |
Click any column heading to sort by it, and click again to reverse it. Sorting by Boom answers “which bases on my server are the dangerous ones” — the base sitting on forty C4 goes straight to the top, however quiet it has been. A base holding nothing explosive shows a dash.
The Boom column is the total of crafted explosives and raw sulfur, because a list needs one number to rank by. Open the base for the two figures separately — they mean different things, as below.
Click a base to open its own page. That page has three tabs.
Containers
Section titled “Containers”Every container inside the cupboard’s radius. Click one to open it.
Everything the base holds, as a single alphabetical list — quantities added up across every container, so four boxes with a stack of metal fragments in each show as one row. Each row also says how many slots the item occupies and how many containers it is spread across.
This is the fastest way to answer “do they have what I think they have” without opening twenty boxes.
Boom summary
Section titled “Boom summary”What the explosives in the base are worth, in raw sulfur, with the total also given as a rough number of C4.
Two figures, kept apart on purpose:
- Crafted boom — C4, rockets (including HV and incendiary), satchels, beancans and explosive 5.56, priced at what each costs to craft.
- Raw materials — sulfur, sulfur ore, gunpowder and explosives, priced at what they turn into.
Sitting on 5,000 sulfur and sitting on eight C4 are different situations, so they are never added into one headline number — though the total covers both.
These are Rust’s crafting costs, the same figures the Raids page uses to estimate what a raid cost. It is an estimate: it prices what is in the boxes right now, and it knows nothing about what anyone actually paid or farmed.
Opening a container
Section titled “Opening a container”A container opens as a grid, with items in the slots they actually occupy — so a box with one thing in the seventh slot shows six empty squares first, exactly as it does in game. Stacked items carry their count; anything with durability carries a condition bar down its left edge.
Tool cupboards can hold items past their 24 visible slots. Those are real, so they are listed underneath the grid rather than hidden.
Finding an item
Section titled “Finding an item”The search box at the top finds every container on the server holding a given item, by its
shortname — explosive.timed, metal.fragments, rifle.ak. That is the fastest way to answer
“who is sitting on a pile of C4”.
Search matches shortnames exactly, not display names.
How fresh is this?
Section titled “How fresh is this?”The plugin sweeps every storage container on the server every five minutes, so what you are looking at can be up to five minutes old. Each container shows when it was last read.
If you need a container read right now — before you go and look at it, say — use Refresh now inside the container view. That asks the plugin to re-read that one container; it usually lands within a few seconds. The button confirms the request was queued, not that new data has arrived, because the plugin has not run yet at that moment. Give it a moment and reopen.
What is tracked
Section titled “What is tracked”Every container a player placed: boxes, furnaces, fridges, lockers, vending machines, planters, workbenches, small stashes, tool cupboards themselves. Anything you can pick up and put in a box is tracked once it is deployed.
Loot barrels, monument crates, road signs, hobo barrels and the fuel tanks and engine bays inside vehicles are not tracked. They belong to the server rather than to anyone on it, they respawn on a timer, and they say nothing about who is dangerous — on a typical server they are more than nine containers in ten and under 2% of the stored explosives.
Containers stop appearing once the plugin has not seen them for a while — raided, decayed or picked up. A container that disappears mid-sweep is retired rather than left on the page forever.