The SCARAB. Mini SHELL 2x2 CORE - RUST Base Design

Introducing the new 2x2 SCARAB base.
This base features a highly convenient step-by-step construction process, an HQM bunker, unlootable lockers, and the ability to add multi TC.
An additional external bunker has also been included where you can securely store your valuable resources.
My Patreon: / goodjoint
The SCARAB. Mini SHELL 2x2 CORE - RUST Base Design

[@HiddenJoint]

My Patreon: www.patreon.com/GoodJoint Мой Discord: discord.gg/V7hkTSRWcM Cost: Stone- 39k. Metal- 22k. HQM- 340

[@mirokko]

МОЙ ДИСКОРД хД Мог уже по русски написать, чё уж там

[@mohamadsediqmovahed9801]

You sure for Stone cost?

[@gooffly8902]

Hey simple question what is the single door skin you use at 9:36?

[@user-or7vj4jq4l]

i love this base design

[@Koz8267]

Dude! I was doomscrolling on KZbin and came across your shorts, which led me to this video. This base looks so cool to build. I haven't played Rust since 2020 and after watching this video it's the first time I've wanted to play it again. Cheers!

[@jasonstanley1467]

Love that you include small farms in these designs

[@HiddenJoint]

Thx u

[@wubbtheboomchicken3618]

One of the most complete bases I've ever seen and you explain it nicely, nice work

[@joseyeuh]

genuinely so good, i defended against a 5 man BY MYSELF and the peaks + turrets and beds worked amazing and successfully won the raid, fire base will be building again.

[@Tobbetuna]

When you thanked for all the views... it really hit me. Im a old gamer. The most enjoyable thing i know is building. And your bases always give me great ideas and new perspectives. Im thinking about patreon but we will see. Keep up the good work man. I love your builds. A big "heya" from Sweden.

[@HiddenJoint]

Thank you so much, my Swedish friend.

[@0fsgivenez5431]

This is true

[@0fsgivenez5431]

Im allso swedish

[@cgfh8673]

Old gamer here who enjoys the building aspect too 👍

[@Voltz42069]

I was having issues with a 2x2 expansion similar to this, those bunkers and functional honeycomb are genius, thank you for the design!

[@austinsurprise1395]

The foundation inside a triangle frame idea is crazy! Keep it up man love your bases

[@QL3AN]

My personal favorite base, been practicing it for quite a few hours for wipe day this Thursday. Great base

[@silentrustplayer]

bought ur patreon and can honestly say there are very good bases ive even been looking for bases with some of the peaks you used so im very satisfied

[@Adazca]

If I still played Rust, I would absolutely build this, looks amazing!

[@Ishizaki3k]

@Hidden Joint... This might be one of the best newer bases ive ever seen and im a heavy builder bro. Well done.

[@grumpyq8090]

I cant even lie, i usually build large circle bases but this right here, thats gotta be the most cozy base ive ever seen and thats definitely going to be the first design base im building in a long time, keep it going man!

[@NOOBEYTUBEY]

one of the best builders ive come across, keep including these farms!!

[@markuselliott8733]

Thank you for these amazing builds, keep doing what your doing and inspiring people and giving that help in their building journeys 😊

[@HiddenJoint]

thx u

[@zenobryant5192]

I usually hate building 2x2's, but since you built it, ill build it.

[@nvrcrd_]

such an amazing and innovative single tc base

[@emarionhildenbrand4615]

Amazing love the base and love the farm even more hope you continue to put mini-farms in your bases

[@Floriwb]

I just subbed to you, i didnt have the chance to build one of your bases yet, but your bases are really well thought through and you post many new ones so keep going man you are doing a great job!

[@sah8109]

Thanks for the base design. Finally, a good and cheap base design for solos

[@estebanflores1427]

This was badass man. Appreciate it. I’ve been wanting to experiment with those auto turret pods but all the videos seem so complicated. This I can just copy and get it done. GGs

[@WolvitePlays]

Very, very impressive. Genuinely great work. The 2x2 corners being actually used was very smart in particular. -Awesome stuff from a 5k hour Andy

[@russellf1339]

Solid build! Thanks for sharing gamer 😎👍

[@bjornv6232]

Omg man you have a unique style love it !

[@XPSftw]

This is everything I want - love it!!

[@ojcruz8092]

Underrated bro! This is amazing~

[@zxv6831]

I love ur base designs as a duo/trio i need a cheap and easily built base that is built in layers my personal fav is the pixel i have it etched into my mind thx for the amazing base designs

[@bokchoysgames]

Straight up master piece

[@relax.4045]

great base, never a fan of the 2x2 but now I will give it a shot

[@DJPON369]

You made it easy to understand that you got that vibe saying “is this not EASY FOR YOU TO UNDERSTAND?!”

[@user-ey2ry7fl8p]

Amazing built

[@KiTho06]

1:40 Base Tour 6:25 Bunker explained 7:13 More Bases on his Patreon 7:38 Starter 8:41 Bunker 9:57 Add Box Storage 10:35 Honeycomb 11:22 Entrances 11:50 Shooting Floor 13:49 Combat Spawns 14:34 Farm 🌿 15:26 Roof 17:11 Turret Pods 18:05 Gate House Placement Without Large Furnace 19:33 High External Walls Placement with Large Furnace 19:58 Large Furnace Walls 20:33 Metal Barricades 20:56 Multi TC 21:41 Finish up If i forgot something please comment and i will add it.

[@DrGrafenberg]

F1 look cmd?

[@DrGrafenberg]

Locker

[@Thezbindens]

Very good one! i‘m actually building it in Wipe this Weekend. Love it already buddy❤️

[@nichlasb4406]

It's been 2+ weeks since a Hidden Joint upload. I think I'm going crazy I need a new base to try out!

[@JohnJohnny-mr4qk]

I have not much skills but when I see your bases i just want to try to build them. Also ur Eminem while teaching how to build.The best bases!

[@xBen00x]

best 2x2 by far, bunker is so easy too

[@memphislowe]

i love the base and its amazing tysm

[@RoxusRemo]

awesome man.

[@user-kz6sf9vz4t]

MY NEW FAVOURITE BASE

[@connoramour3673]

Love this base can you do a separate video to show us how to have a detachable TC potentially with a bunker as well.

[@oversizerunescape]

First time running this on PvP server. Can confirm super easy to defend this base ESPECIALLY if they come to the roof

[@guardianbeam3385]

Great base keep it up

[@HiddenJoint]

[@filiphe_75]

happy to see a great base after a really long time 👏🏼👏🏼. Nowadays all bases are too expensive even if they are for duo they are not affordable, too compex building mechanics etc.. and the protection is not great, but this is one of the greatest i have seen in 2024

[@FloridaCPs]

great base bro

[@user-mr6hl7cn4n]

best of singleTC base!cool!

[@HiddenJoint]

Thx u bro 😎

[@onwardtotheedge]

FYI when you place the roof at 12:11, after you upgrade to stone it blocks the jump up. It might be that the adobe skin isn't blocked, but the default stone definitely is. This will ruin the entire base design if the destroy timer passes before you notice. You need to upgrade to wood only if you don't have adobe skin.

[@mohamadsediqmovahed9801]

Tnx bro I love this base!

[@HiddenJoint]

It’s top

[@bazuka9767]

very good base👍

[@HiddenJoint]

Thx u

[@gabedadoon4351]

cant wait to see this base on official this wipe and know where to raid it

[@sirxgalaxy9003]

Absolutely insane base. My one bit of feedback would be to try and explain things in stages to simulate a progression of a wipe

[@ricardoribeiro2742]

I did this base, it’s amazing for vanilla rust and kinda cheap to maintain with a team, I added a few shotgun traps, to make it harder to offline raid and give me time to log because I have the server connected to Rust+, added a few sensors around the base to know which side they are, and made external Traps connected to those sensors, when they detect a player, the doors open and auto turrets start to shoot everyone around, it’s a good addition, and if you start to get a bunch of loot, I added an second external wall with more of those bunker rooms turned into towers, and slapped Sam sites in the very top to help kill minis, it’s amazing for trios for entire wipes

[@harvzz_]

whats the upkeep????

[@ricardoribeiro2742]

@@harvzz_ cannot give you precise upkeep because I play on 5X or 10X server (and pay attention to that detail) for trio it’s not that hard to upkeep, I tend to make everything HQM and Frags

[@ricardoribeiro2742]

@@harvzz_ I usually start the main core and go raid caves to get more HQM, when I get like 15k to 20k it’s enough to make a bunch of things, but vanilla is way harder, I cannot tell you precisely because I don’t do this base long time on vanilla

[@ricardoribeiro2742]

@@harvzz_ all edits on base were made based on X10 servers gameplay, that’s why I added extra protection for offline raids, I tried sometimes in vanilla rust but you need good active team and to farm boom as fast as possible to raid big bases to get resources as fast as possible, and if you can controle excavator its even better to get all resources for entire week of wipe, and you just need couple of hours

[@Dwarfus]

The external bunkers are super cool, i’ve never seen those in my 1.5k hours of rust and 500 hours of searching for building ideas! Truly a wonderful base and an awesome template for me to improve to my liking!❤

[@G3N3515DM]

"so that I could COMFORTABLY roof camp" ...wonderful

[@HiddenJoint]

lol

[@KrubRust]

Wow what a scarab

[@ST1NKS12]

My fave base builder

[@MrLimezz]

Эта база лучше чем последние несколько на бусти. Построил - кайф!

[@lone871]

came here from the short, nice marketing skills bruv

[@notzimontop]

best base builder

[@HiddenJoint]

[@eltutocosidiario]

7:45 for me and everyone here start to build

[@randomstuff4508]

one tip when turrrets are behind chainlink if you look at the bottom of the chain link you can still filll the turrets in the newest update 05/06/2024

[@laurinpfeifer7501]

Hi man, i really love your videos, all these nice genius bases are so cool and awesome but sometimes i struggle with the upkeep. Could you maybe make a small base next time with a shooting floor and a open core? I would really appreciate that. Keep going i love your videos!!!

[@JLawL]

This should have been a patreon base! Every public base is so popular they are raided instantly. Your success is killing me 🤣

[@onwardtotheedge]

Are the patreon bases good? DO they still work with the pixel gap and bunker fixes and are there some decent smaller solo bases there?

[@xkadei]

@@onwardtotheedge i have 1 friend that pay his patreon and i confirm his bases are pretty good in patreon

[@milancerpwns9358]

It has nothing to do with that with why you're rated instantly you raided constantly because that's the game lol there's no base design that's raid proof most boil down to just pummel thru two to three walls

[@JLawL]

@@milancerpwns9358 He's got patreon bases with 12-15 bunker capability. It most certainly is not just because it's "the game". People recognize the base config and know exactly where to raid it. All the public bases are useless when someone can just find them on youtube.

[@ItsAlpa]

I already commented on this base. But, after building it and altering it a little bit to my likings I genuinely think it's your best work yet. It's kind of everything you look for in a Rust base. The layout of it is so simple and effective. One thing that is severly underrated is "how effective is the starter unit?" and for it to be a 2x2 that's perfect. There a couple things I changed: I personally believe roof bunkers are completely useless, unless you put it in a very clunky build like your "Mirage" (not saying that base is bad by any means it's just different / clunky to your normal Rust base imo). So, what I did was put an oil refinery as the jump up / or if it fits which is even better under the jump up. When raiders see you have a roof bunker they will just ignore it and go through the armor wall where the TC is anyways. It might add 2 additional rockets to raid cost but I think having an oil refinery in your core is just so convenient the entire wipe and is more than worth the trade off. The compound / gate houses: The compound is a bit too much work for me lol. I don't really care that much about external bunkers / gate house bunkers. I straight up think placing boxes in your external TCs is more than enough. I have been offline raided more times than I can count and the external TCs have NEVER been hit. What I did was actually use the exact same gatehouse you used in your "2x2 expansion" base design from like a month ago. I think those are the best gatehouses I used to this day. I killed so many people running by through those little peaks. I wish you included those in more of your builds. So - SO EFFECTIVE. However, I hated how the compound was sectioned off so to avoid that I just did some buildouts to fix that to push the triangles off the base. I also changed around the inside honey-comb loot rooms and stuff to my likings. Awesome base dude. I give it a 9 / 10 if that means anything lol EDIT: I ALMOST FORGOT.. You don't need to wait till after you build the shooting floor to add those pixel peaks. I used the shipping container skin and I could still place the pixel peak even when there was a roof there. Just word to the wise

[@rancor4513]

that bunker comment is so stupid. "they will just ignore it and go through walls" what the heck do you think bunkers are for bro? this applies to basically every TC bunker. the point is to make them spend more rockets by going through walls. considering this base has a vending machine loot room, protecting TC is even more important lol The bunker stuff is pretty true, if you have multiple externals they prob wont be getting hit.

[@ItsAlpa]

@@rancor4513 in the footprint of a 2x2 roof bunkers DO NOT work. I have been building bases myself for years now. You can actually splash the roof bunker from the inside and outside the base rendering it completely useless if you are precise enough. All of the good bunkers got patched. One scenario the roof bunker can work is if you place in the opposite corner square of the TC in a 2x2 footprint but that comes with trade offs of you losing a lot of storage and mobility. Also that high foundation comes with its own weakness from the outside. That is the cheapest path to raid from because of that high foundation. I’ve tested it so many times now. Like I said, roof bunkers are only good if you don’t plan on expanding the base ever. If you just want some chad 2x2 then it makes sense. Not a full fledged base.

[@rancor4513]

@@ItsAlpa 0 logic... u splash it through the walls, spesificlly the one on the 2x2 right side, if you;re already blowing through that wall then the bunker wont matter in the firstplace, if you;re going through the roof then it wont splash, this is just dumb comment. The walls, half walls, raised foundation or whatever you use for the bunker has to be the same tier as the bunker seal, thats common knowledge if you're a builder

[@rancor4513]

@@ItsAlpa explain how the raised foundation is the cheapest side if its honeycombed...

[@ItsAlpa]

@@rancor4513 I'll try to explain this to you like you're a complete noob because you must be -If raiders take the back wall where the bunker side is they can potentially save 8 rockets. If you hit the corner of the honeycomb correctly it can destroy the sheet metal AND do half the damage to the raised triangle foundation. Once you destroy that foundation it opens the bunker and leaves you with 3 garage doors to TC. If you don't believe me go test it on a build server. -If raiders breach the second floor and are left with the bunker they will just blow either through the ceiling or through the TC wall where the bunker is half covering. Most of the time they will blow the ceiling because I'm not sure if you know this or not but rockets have splash damage. They can damage things around where they hit. If they already used 16ish rockets to get into your second floor nothing is holding them back from using 16 more to get all of your core loot. -I'll break down the math for you here as well. Say theoretically you have an armored door as the bunker entranance. Raiders 5 rocket the armored the door. What gets splashed as well? The FLOOR. "Oh there is a bunker??" "let's just splash the rest of the floor!" | Say they come from the high foundation side. They splash through one layer of honeycomb (-7 / 8 rockets) if the raiders are knowledgable they can see the high foundation through the wall they will splash that as well. So they break 2 layers of honeycomb and half a layer of armored (-15 / 16 rockets at this point). "oh it's a bunker" the raiders say. "Let's just splash the rest of this foundation to break it" (-24 rockets and you're in the core + splash damage opens up the second floor as well). You just lost all of your loot because the raiders were smart around 35 rockets and your loot is gone. -So your counter-argument is that "well if they go through walls then it's useless anyways" correct, but my point is WHAT'S THE POINT IN A 2X2 BUNKER? The only useful bunker in a 2x2 was the offset bunker but that is now patched. Bunkers are not good now. -Theoretically if there was NO BUNKER. You have armored door + 3 garage doors to TC. That is 14 rockets. You have to tell me that having a weakness high foundation side and a big giant square in the middle of your 2x2 is worth it for TWO ROCKETS? Let me say this again so you can comprehend. A roof bunker SAVES ((((((TWO))))))) ROCKETS. I would MUCH RATHER have an oil refinery sitting in my core than a two rocket bunker. If they got that far nothing is deterring them from using TWO more rockets to get your TC. It's not "0 logic" I have been building for a very long time and tested every variation of bunkers since the GOOD offset bunkers were patched out. I tested this in build servers for hours. There are uses for roof bunkers. Just not in a 2x2 footprint. It does not work. Once again.. I TESTED THEM in every footprint imagineable for a 2x2.

[@calebdowell4027]

I'ma be building this later thank you sir 😂

[@TheBluedemon86]

Sick!!! Wow!

[@TheBluedemon86]

Do you have a tutorial for dummies for this design bro?

[@HiddenJoint]

@@TheBluedemon86 Is this tutorial too complicated?

[@TheBluedemon86]

@@HiddenJoint kinda fast on certain details. Is it gonna be on patreon?

[@lucianoc9443]

Great base, looking foward to build in my next wipe. How we sould install air defense in external tc? Thank you

[@ObsidianLiger]

"So that I can comfortably roof camp" he said with sarcasm...right?

[@matusfranko457]

My brotha cooked so hard again 🙏😭😭

[@bjornv6232]

@HiddenJoint , those wooden window bars should they stay wooden ? seems easy to grub ?

[@TheBluedemon86]

¡Gracias!

[@HiddenJoint]

veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery thx u bro!

[@vinsanityprokidd3713]

When I saw this video. I subscribe instantly. Can you make a base layout in the middle of it is a large furnace??

[@timo27123]

For how many ppl is this recommended for?

[@susmaster5817]

I loved this base so much made me drop liquids

[@Magic_42]

I duo on 10x when the weekends hit, i've just spent the last 2 hours learning the design hahaha, i dare a 10 man too come try us this weekend! keep up the hard work brother you'll be where you want too be very soon

[@joelsinger5719]

You should make a base for people who are offline raiding you so many walls and bunkers to make it as expensive as possible

[@Joguhyik]

i think you can upgrade the triangle roofs to sheet metal shipping container skin and then place for pixel peeks. didnt test but maybe u can place them

[@kochtrevor]

Can you do a third planter box with another floor tile beneath the triangle roofs? Or does the light and sprinkler not reach?

[@dipayansaha25]

nice

[@ItsAlpa]

I have to ask.. is the roof bunker really all that useful in a 2x2? The splash damage from the rockets will damage everything enough to where the raider will probably just ignore the bunker and figure to just destroy everything around it. It’s good early game but that’s about it. In my opinion a better option for 2x2s is using an oil refinery under the jump up. At the end of the day when you fully build your base a bunker would render pretty useless and if anything makes your base weaker from the foundation direction if the raiders were to pummel from that side.

[@DEADPOOL-ib3ft]

You should add a farm to the next patreon base

[@sanik9581]

How could you take this concept and apply it to a 2-3x server where they are coming at you with more boom, but you have more resources to build your base base a bit thicker and upkeep isn't as bad?

[@DEADPOOL-ib3ft]

Like the farm ngl

[@Blakrex]

I thought they made double chainlinks nonfunctional for turrets.

[@gin4000]

"if only somone would build the perfect solo base for me" - me, well now they have

[@Chaos1TV]

do you plan on adding any bases to the patreon soon? i was thinking about joining but i noticed there haven't been any additions since april, im just looking for a solid duo trio bunker base with multiple walls to tc 4+, im a grinder but i am tired of grinding 12 hours farming to build the base up and then after i sleep i wake up raided without even getting to play the wipe. right now im using the mirage but i got offlined overnight before i could finish the last part of the roof, spent all day building and then woke up raided lol

[@marky2107]

I tryed this base and managed to defend a raid of 120 + rockets but that was us sealing all the time . Great base but i feel the shooting floor is not very good . If you could improve the peaks ect this would be a 10/10 base

[@voltifys3007]

Good base, also where are you from?

[@user-qx5uq6iy3l]

So why do we leave twing inside the core? How do we seal that bunker? I may have missed something

[@M4R3K0001]

At 9:17 - arent enemy able to open vault by shooting out twig which is sticking out of foundation?

[@lukaswoodman9172]

How do you get those vines on the exterior of the base

[@andreix.shadow]

I think you should combine scrab mirage and pixel and make all bunkers with so many turets and spam hy doors and 4 walls tc 80 rockets raid that will be teh best baze in rust 🎉

[@michaelsmith5065]

Will everything on and with this base work on console edition? I have never seen the bunkers

[@fumi6887]

This is one of the best designs. Very basic to build and hard to raid.

[@brooksmessing1734]

do the bunkers work with the new update

[@sirfist6236]

Do i have to upgrade the twig under the bunker to wood?

[@onwardtotheedge]

As of May 2024, those chainlink fences were patched and now offer zero protection for your turrets beyond someone being able to melee them. Bunker at 18:00 also no longer works.

[@Karl-bc2os]

Do the vending machine bunkers work on console? I have zero luck getting them in place

[@truckfityourgirl]

So I built this base but I’m able to bunker with the foundation just thatch , why does the bunker foundation have to be wood please explain?

[@BlackMT-07]

The triangle foundation of the bunker is exposed right ?

[@drlu3823]

This seems like a Great Solo Base , but Instead of the Roofs you placed outside I would build walls honey comb the area in there also