Timed Explosive Charge: C4 vs Rockets

Characteristics

Category: Tool

Stack size: 10

Workbench: Level 3

Craftable: Yes

Researchable: Yes · 120 Scrap

Damage: 550

Blast radius: 4 m

Fuse: 10 s

Overview

In-game description

C4, useful for breaking into bases.

Use C4 when you know exactly which door stands between you and the loot. You walk up, stick it on, step away, and it takes a big bite out of one spot. Rockets you fire from a distance and spread across a wall; C4 is for the moment you are already at the door.

Pros

Cons

Hits one spot harder than a rocket, which suits doors and the last wall before the TC
No launcher to carry and nothing to aim: place it and step back
Researchable, so a group can keep building it all wipe

You have to reach the target, often under fire from the roof
The fuse gives defenders a moment to react
Each one wants 20 explosives and 2 tech trash, behind a Level 3 workbench

Tech trash is often the bottleneck, not sulfur. You can craft it at a Level 3 bench from scrap and high quality metal or pull it from crates, but a big raid eats it quickly.

Plan the path before the first charge goes on. Count the doors and walls on the way to the tool cupboard, and bring a couple extra for the honeycomb nobody saw from outside. Running dry at the last wall is how you end up raiding for the next group.

What it destroys

Target	Quantity	Sulfur
Wall Wood	1	2,200
Wall Stone	2	4,400
Wall Metal	4	8,800
Wall Armored	8	17,600
Wooden Door	1	2,200
Sheet Metal Door	1	2,200
Armored Door	3	6,600
Wood Double Door	1	2,200
Sheet Metal Double Door	1	2,200
Armored Double Door	3	6,600
Garage Door	2	4,400
Ladder Hatch	1	2,200
Armored Ladder Hatch	3	6,600
High External Wooden Wall	2	4,400
High External Stone Wall	2	4,400
Metal Window Bars	2	4,400
Strengthened Glass Window	2	4,400
Tool Cupboard	1	2,200
Animal Fence	1	2,200
Animal Fence Gate	1	2,200
Armored Triangle Ladder Hatch	3	6,600
Chainlink Fence	1	2,200
Chainlink Fence Gate	1	2,200
Factory Door	1	2,200
Festive Doorway Garland	1	2,200
Festive Double Doorway Garland	1	2,200
Festive Window Garland	1	2,200
Floor grill	1	2,200
Floor triangle grill	1	2,200
Graveyard Fence	1	2,200
High External Adobe Gate	2	4,400
High External Adobe Wall	2	4,400
High External Legacy Gate	2	4,400
High External Legacy Wall	2	4,400
High External Stone Gate	2	4,400
High External Wooden Gate	2	4,400
High Ice Wall	2	4,400
Industrial Garage Door	2	4,400
Lunar Wall Frame Inlay	1	2,200
Lunar Wall Frame Inlay	1	2,200
Lunar Wall Frame Inlay	1	2,200
Netting	1	2,200
Prison Cell Gate	1	2,200
Prison Cell Wall	1	2,200
Reinforced Glass Window	2	4,400
Retro Tool Cupboard	1	2,200
Shockbyte Tool Cupboard	1	2,200
Shop Front	1	2,200
Short Ice Wall	1	2,200
Small Ramp	1	2,200
Triangle Ladder Hatch	1	2,200
Wood Shutters	1	2,200
Wooden Frontier Bar Doors	1	2,200
Wooden Window Bars	1	2,200