Armored Door: Raid Defense & When to Craft

Overview

In-game description

Extremely strong door with a hatch to see and shoot out of.

Hang this on the doors raiders have to get through to reach your loot and the TC. Once your group has a Level 3 workbench, it is the top of the door ladder: a wooden door falls to fire and satchels, a sheet metal door to a modest pile of explosives, and the armoured one pushes the raid into C4 and rocket territory.

Pros

Cons

The toughest single door: every one on the path costs raiders real sulfur
A hatch you open to look out and shoot through

Each eats 20 high quality metal and five gears, HQM a facemask or rifle also wants
Locked behind the Level 3 bench, so it shows up mid-wipe at best
The hatch works both ways: left open, it is a hole they shoot in through

The usual mistake is armouring the front door and stopping there. Raiders do not take your door, they take whatever is cheapest. A stone wall next to it holds about as long, and a sheet metal wall holds longer than the door itself. So trace the path to the TC and armour its doors, starting with the last one.

Mid-wipe with HQM for three doors in the box? They go on the loot room and the TC airlock, not on the entrance the whole server walks past.

Raid cost

Explosive	Quantity	Sulfur
Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo cheapest	250	6,250
Timed Explosive Charge	3	6,600
Rocket	5	7,000
Satchel Charge	15	7,200
High Velocity Rocket	42	8,400
Beancan Grenade	82	9,840
Other ways: siege weapons, vehicles and loot
Torpedo	125	1,500
Propane Explosive Bomb	5	4,500
Mortar Shell	21	6,600
Survey Charge	155	9,300
Homing Missile	125	12,600
MLRS Rocket	4	—
40mm HE Grenade	36	—
Hammerhead Bolt	50	—

Explosive

Quantity

Sulfur