Shelter

Shelter  
General  
Category Shelter
Hammer Medium, Large
Building  
Build cost 250 Build Supplies
Build time 250 hits Medium (141.8 s), 167 hits Large (147.5 s). Derived from the hammer swing timing, not timed in play.
Health 2,250 HP
Damage  
Bullets -80%
Melee -80%
Grenades +50%
Rockets +80%
C4 +150%
IEDs +300%
Internal name DA_Buildable_Shelter

The Shelter is a single-piece shelter that a Medium or Large Hammer can build. It costs 250 Build Supplies, the most of any structure that a Medium Hammer can build, and it has 2,250 HP. It is a different structure from the Indirect Fire Shelter.

Overview

The Shelter costs 250 Build Supplies and has 2,250 HP. It has no separate parts. The export gives no display name for it, so this article uses the plain name “Shelter”.

Destroying an enemy Shelter pays 250 cash and 65 Role XP. The placement rewards for a structure placed inside a base are a flat 5 cash (10 in a hot zone). The data has a Placed and a Placed in FOB reward table that could pay this, and it is not confirmed which one the game uses; see Cash and Rewards.

Building it

  • Cost: 250 Build Supplies, whichever hammer builds it. Nothing is charged at placement.
  • Hammers: Medium or Large.
  • Placement: It must be inside a friendly Forward Operating Base radius. It cannot be placed within 3 m of a safe zone or while standing in one, and not within 1 m of a ladder.
  • Stack limit: 1.
  • Build stages: Five, at 0, 25, 50, 75 and 100% of progress. Each of the first four stages has 24 weak spots. A hammer hit on a weak spot adds more progress (see Buildables).
  • Build time: Estimated from the hits to build in the table below, one hit per swing (derived, not timed in play).
Building it Small hammer Medium hammer Large hammer
Hits to build cannot place 250 (about 141.8 s) 167 (about 147.5 s)
Hits to repair from zero health 500 250 167
Hits to dismantle (your own) 15 12 9

Seconds are an estimate: one hammer hit per swing, 0.567 s per hit for the Small and Medium hammers and 0.883 s for the Large (derived from the use animation, not measured).

The hits assume normal hits, not weak-spot hits. The Small Hammer cannot place the Shelter, so its build column says so, but the repair and dismantle figures are what its hit does and are not checked in play. See Buildables for how the hit amounts work.

What it does

The data does not describe its use in play beyond its health and how it takes damage.

Durability

Source Change Share of damage that gets through
Bullets -80% 20%
Melee -80% 20%
Grenades +50% 1.5 times
Rockets +80% 1.8 times
C4 +150% 2.5 times
IEDs +300% 4 times

The table below gives the hits it takes to destroy, for each source. For how the percentages combine, see the Damage Pipeline.

Hits to destroy (point blank, derived)

Derived from each source’s base damage and the damage table. It is not a count from play: each figure assumes every shot lands at point blank for full damage, with no falloff and no other rules, so real fights can differ. Base damage used: M4 5.56 mm FMJ 28, .50 cal FMJ 90, 120 mm rocket 150, M67 frag grenade 100 (it counts as a rocket against structures), C4 charge 250, IED 300. Each figure is the number of hits needed after every matching damage entry is applied.

Structure HP M4 5.56 mm FMJ .50 cal FMJ 120 mm rocket M67 frag grenade C4 charge IED
Shelter 2,250 402 125 7 13 4 2

Season 2 changes

The Season 2 data lists no change to the Shelter’s cost or health.

See also

Sources