Chaos Bases

Chaos Bases are Rust MMORPG's fully custom version of the "Raidable NPC Bases" concept. Chaos Bases serve as revolving PVE, PVP, and Raiding Events, where the player can choose the type of Chaos Base that is right for them - whether they're looking for just PVE, just PVP, just raiding, or any combination therein. The command to see which Chaos Bases are on the map is **/chaosbases**.

Each Chaos Base has NPC Defenders in the form of:

* Chaos Adherents
* Insurgents
* Dominators

In ascending order of NPC Defenders, base complexity, structure grade, loot, and rewards:

* Dwellings
* Bastions
* Strongholds
* Fortresses

## Spawning

Chaos Bases can spawn in Tiers 1-3.
When a Chaos Base spawns, it is unclaimed and will persist on the map for a period of time before despawning. If a player approaches within 100m when despawning, it will delay its despawn for up to 2 hours. Once 4 Chaos Bases have been captured, new Chaos Base spawns will now be halted. New spawns will begin only when there are less than 4 Claimed.

## Alignment

Like Events, Chaos Bases can spawn in Lawful or Lawless Varieties. Lawful Varieties incur Alignment Loss for player kills within its vicinity and have NPC Guardians for protection for Lawful Players, while Lawless Versions have neither.

### Lawful

Lawful Chaos Bases have a little less loot, and are meant to be PVE-oriented Events. As such, once raided and captured, the Chaos Base will be set to despawn, and there will be no accompanying PVP portion.

### Lawless

Lawless Chaos Bases are a different beast. When a Clan captures a Lawless Chaos Base, from that point begins the timer. Within 22 hours the Chaos Base will have its first Vulnerability Window.

## Capturing Bases

In order to capture a Chaos Base, players must:

* Defeat 80% of the defending NPC Force,
* Raid the base
* Destroy the TC
* Put down their own TC
* Pay the Clan Point Capture Cost

When doing so, the Chaos Base becomes claimed by that Clan.
The rewards are a very large amount of XP, Clan Points, and Loot.

## Vulnerability Window

**Number** and **Duration** of Vulnerability Windows is dependent on the **Tier** and **Difficulty** of the Chaos Base.

Before the first Vulnerability Window, the Clan can fully and automatically repair the base they just raided by hitting the Tool Cupboard with a repair hammer and having the appropriate resources (1/4th the real cost). There's no need to manually rebuild the base, though players can place different types of deployables within the base once captured to help in defense and convenience.

Once a Vulnerability Window begins, if the Clan can defend the base from attackers, they will receive another large amount of XP and Clan Points. Each successful Vulnerability Window Defense will work the same way, going live within 22 hours and offering XP and Clan Points for a successful defense.

When the final Vulnerability Window for a base is done, XP and Clan Points are given to the capturing Clan a final time, and the base will despawn in 1 to 2 hours.

## Defenders VS Attackers

If attackers manage to capture the base during a Vulnerability Window (by destroying the TC and placing their own), they will receive a large amount of Scrap, XP, Clan Points, and possession of all remaining Vulnerability Windows that they will continue to gain additional XP and Clan Points for should they successfully hold the base.

Defenders will very much want to defend a claimed base, as losing a Claim carries with it the same Clan Point cost as Claiming the base to begin with. Capturing a Chaos Base during a Vulnerability Window has no Claim Cost.

To help attackers during a Vulnerability Window because they are facing players rather than just NPC opponents, all damage dealt to a Chaos Base during a Vulnerability Window is increased by 50% vs. whatever the damage multiplier was during the PVE phase of the event.

## Base Information

Below players can find information about the different damage multipliers, as Chaos Bases are not meant to be as defensible as player bases, with multipliers up to 15.69 times standard damage. VW references Vulnerability Windows.