Raiding Guide for Fust Survival

Raiding is optional content until your own door locks. In Fust Survival, explosives are a crafting chain, the Tool Cupboard is the strategic target, and the weekly Friday wipe is the clock that tells you whether a raid is profit or theater. This guide covers the sulphur → charcoal → gun powder → explosives path, raid prep, when to hit, and how not to donate your boom to a counter. Read crafting and resource gathering if those chains are still fuzzy, and base building so you recognize strong versus soft shells.

The explosives economy

You do not buy raids — you farm them.

1. Mine Sulphur Ore — Look for yellow crystals on grey rock. Pickaxe recommended.
2. Smelt / process sulphur through your furnace workflow until you have usable sulphur for crafting.
3. Burn wood in the furnace to create Charcoal while fueling smelts.
4. Craft Gun Powder in Q — common baseline Sulphur 10 + Charcoal 10 → x10 Gun Powder. Confirm live rates.
5. Craft explosives in the Explosives category — including C4 / Timed Explosive Charge when available.

Bank intermediates inside a Key Locked base under TC privilege. Walking across the map with raw sulphur and no bag is how raid budgets vanish.

Solo Fust Survival Raid and Domination

TC as the raid objective

Blowing random walls feels productive and often is not. The Tool Cupboard is the privilege heart. When you destroy or seize TC control, the base’s ownership story changes and the loot becomes actionable. Plan the path of least resistance to the TC room:

• Count doors and expected soft sides.
• Prefer paths that use fewer charges if the TC sits behind one weak wall.
• Watch for airlocks — two doors means more boom or more time.
• Listen for defenders; online TCs cost more than offline junk shells.

If you cannot reach TC with the explosives you brought, you are not raiding — you are renovating for free for the owner.

When to raid

Good raid windows on wipe servers:

• Early wipe soft targets — Players with doors but no upgrades, no airlock, TC visible from exterior.
• Mid wipe opportunity raids — Owners offline, sulphur left in insecure boxes, single-door 1x1s near monuments.
• Late wipe revenge or contested — Only if your own base is already secure and you accept counter-raid risk.

Bad raid windows:

• Your own TC is wood-starved and unlocked nonsense.
• You have gun powder but no sleeping bag near a staging spot.
• Friday wipe is hours away and the target is a honeycomb fortress — practice maybe, profit rarely.
• You heard a bigger group already shooting the same compound.

Solo raiders should skim solo survival for when not to commit.

Prep checklist before you leave home

• Own base locked, TC authorized, bag placed
• Gun powder and explosive charges crafted and counted
• Spare weapons / spear backup
• Meds or food if your build uses them
• Tool for doors and debris if needed
• Empty inventory space for loot
• Map check (M) for approach and escape
• Agree on TC path if grouped
• Staging bag or safe path home

Craft explosives from the Q Explosives path only after charcoal and sulphur stocks are real. Recipe gates may include Workbench tiers — see crafting.

Execution basics

1. Clear exterior campers if you can do it quietly; if you cannot, pick another target.
2. Place charges on the planned breach tiles, not on decorative honeycomb you do not need.
3. After each breach, re-evaluate: still pathing to TC?
4. Secure TC room, authorize or destroy as your group’s rule requires, then loot deep storage first (gun powder, fragments, tech).
5. Do not greed every wood wall if counters are screaming on approach.
6. Deposit loot in your TC before you screenshot the raid for friends.

Death drops carried items. A successful breach with a failed walk home is still a failed raid.

Defense note (know both sides)

Understanding raids makes you a better builder. If your TC is one wood wall from outside, you are advertising. Add airlocks, upgrade the TC bunker toward wood with the Hammer, and stop storing sulphur in the front room. The base building guide is the defensive mirror of this page.

Sulphur farming tips for raid budgets

• Run sulphur with a Stone Pickaxe and almost empty pockets.
• Smelt at home, not in a battlefield furnace.
• Convert to gun powder in batches so you know your boom count.
• Keep a wood reserve for charcoal; players often go sulphur-rich and charcoal-poor.
• Avoid famous sulphur hills during peak population spikes on 100-player servers.

Monument hauls (Military Crates, harbor, oil rig, Outpost recycler loops — player-reported) can supplement, but nodes remain the controllable sulphur source.

Wipe timing and raid ROI

Progress saves per server until the weekly Friday wipe. That changes ethics and math:

• Early wipe raids snowball.
• Mid wipe raids refill benches and boom.
• Late wipe mega-raids are prestige; ship loot you will actually use before reset.

If you only have time for one major craft chain before wipe, finishing your own TC upgrades often beats a vanity raid.

Related guides

• Resource Gathering — Sulphur and charcoal.
• Crafting — Gun powder recipe and Explosives tab.
• Base Building — What you are breaking / defending.
• Solo Survival — Solo raid discipline.
• Getting Started — If you still lack a bag.
• Guides Hub — Full tutorial list.

Bring enough boom for the TC, not for your ego. The raid ends when privilege changes and loot is home — not when the outer wall pops.

Keep progressing

Next, read the base defense for the next stage of the wipe week.