Door Code Generator

How the Rust Door Code Generator picks a code

The Rust Door Code Generator, a free RustPotato tool, hands out none of the codes a guesser tries first. It leaves out the 3,406 most picked four-digit PINs and draws one of the other 6,594 at random, in your browser, so a raider working down the usual list has thousands of codes to get through before yours.

Codes that follow a pattern are the ones people pick most. On the ranking the generator reads, every year from 1900 to 2029, all ten codes made of one repeated digit, all 100 repeated pairs like 1212 or 4545, and every date written day then month, like 2512, sit among the 3,406 most picked. Type yours under Check your code to see where it ranks: Very weak in the 100 most picked, Weak in the rest of the 3,406, Strong beyond.

The ranking is four-digit-pin-codes-sorted-by-frequency-withcount.csv from SecLists, published under the MIT licence: all 10,000 four-digit PINs, sorted by how often people pick them. It ranks PIN codes in general, not codes seen on Rust servers. A rare code only beats guessing: a teammate who passes it on still lets people in.

How a Rust code lock works: guests, wrong codes and the lockout

A Code Lock, or codelock to most players, is the four-digit keypad lock of Rust: it takes 10,000 codes, from 0000 to 9999, and setting the first code locks it at once. Changing the code later deauths every player who had entered the old one, so after a teammate leaves, a new code keeps them out.

A code lock can also take a guest code once its main code is set. The guest code opens the door, nothing more. Only a player who entered the main code can lock or unlock it, and a code can only be changed while the lock is unlocked. Changing the main code leaves the guest code, and the players who know it, as they were.

A Rust code lock in numbers, on default server settings:

Wrong codes before the keypad locks

8 in a row, each under a minute after the last (codelock.maxfailedattempts)

Keypad lockout

15 minutes (codelock.lockoutcooldown)

Shock per wrong code

5 health, then 5 more with each wrong code after it, so five misses in a row cost 75 health; clothing does not soften it

Those limits are server defaults read from the game files, and a server can change them, which is why anyone code raiding a door spends their few tries on the codes people pick most.

Code Lock or Key Lock in Rust, and one code per door

A Code Lock in Rust costs 100 Metal Fragments and a Key Lock 75 Wood; both craft by hand, without a workbench, in 15 seconds, and go on a door from your hand. A Key Lock opens with a Door Key made from it, and losing that key locks you out of the door for good. A Code Lock shocks every wrong guess and takes a guest code, which makes it the lock for any door worth raiding. Give each one its own code, so a leak opens one door, not the whole base. The Sheet Metal Door and Armored Door sheets, or the Raid Calculator, show what that door costs to raid.

Questions about Rust code locks and door codes