WARDOGS FOB guide: what a Forward Operating Base costs, what it can hold, and the three supplies that feed it

Construction in WARDOGS has two tiers. 'Small defensive structures can be constructed in the battlefield, while larger structures and defensive systems can be constructed through a Forward Operating Base' (wiki). The tool is a hammer, and hammers are tiered — Medium and Large appear in the changelog on the Support track, and PCGamesN says the mortar needs 'the highest tier of hammer', the Large Hammer, which unlocks at Support level 8.

The wiki's list of what a FOB is for reads like a mission statement: 'create a fortified position around a strategic location, protect a spawn vehicle, support logistics operations, and provide defensive firepower.' The phrase 'protect a spawn vehicle' matters — PCGamesN's money guide describes driving the mobile spawn point into the zone and being paid on arrival and per spawn, and a FOB is what keeps that vehicle alive.

BULKHEAD lists 'Base Building & Destruction' as one of the four pillars in its February 2026 announcement post, alongside infantry, vehicles and the 'Teamplay = Cash' system, and the Steam description gives the FOB its own sentence: 'you could choose to fortify a strategic chokepoint by building your own forward operating base'. The wiki's Game Modes page explains why it matters for the objective: 'The ability to construct and reinforce positions allows teams to turn areas around the Control Zone into fortified defensive positions.' Since control is decided by head count inside a 2 × 2 km zone, a base that keeps players alive inside it is worth points directly.

The design also links the FOB to spawning. The wiki's list of FOB purposes includes 'protect a spawn vehicle', and PCGamesN describes the mobile spawn point as a vehicle you drive into the zone and park, earning on arrival and per spawn. A FOB around that vehicle is the difference between a team that reinforces the zone in seconds and one that drives from main base every life — 'it takes absolutely ages', in PCGamesN's words.

The wiki lists the 'current playtest construction options' and notes they 'may change during development'. We reproduce the list as written; nothing has been added to it.

A Steam community guide by Skivin ('Foundational Tips for Beginning Builders', read 14 September) adds the operational detail the wiki lacks, and we cite it as a player's account. The FOB kit 'acts as both the central item that determines your building radius and as a stockpile that holds all of the materials you'll use to build your base. If an enemy reaches this, they're able to hack it and take over your base, so walling it off as soon as possible should be your #1 priority.' Doors: 'Doors do close automatically after about a minute, but a minute is more than enough time for someone to sneak in… When you close doors, make sure they actually fully close.' Breaching exists — 'Halligan bars can pry open doors and C4 isn't that expensive'. Supplies: 'Items delivered in crates need to be purchased from the crate and manually delivered to the FOB's storage… but the large supply pallets can be unpacked anywhere within the FOB radius and will automatically deposit their resources remotely.'

PC Gamer's beta notes fill in the builder's income: 'Every productive swing of a hammer earns cash ($15 in the beta), and completing a build can be worth more than getting a kill ($1,200 to $1,500)', built by 'holding LMB with your hammer (hitting the yellow X's makes it go faster)', with a perimeter of 'walls, gates, and Hesco blocks'. Those are beta figures the changelog may have changed; the mechanics are not in any BULKHEAD post.

Fuel has a third customer besides vehicles: drills. Per hammerworth's community guide, a tower's Hot Zone drill runs 'for as long as that FOB has fuel supplies', and a buildable drill 'consumes fuel too'. The towers guide covers it.

The vendor sells a Large Hammer for $2,400 (was $1,600). The Support track lists a Medium Hammer at $25,000 (was $10,000) and a Large Hammer at $75,000 (was $25,000), with the Large Hammer's unlock moved from level 7 to 8. No source explains why the vendor and the track both list a Large Hammer at different prices, and no source names a Small Hammer, so we report the listings as they appear. PCGamesN's mortar guide treats the Large Hammer as 'the highest tier of hammer' and the mortar as its gate; its money guide treats a plain hammer from the vendor as enough for walls, barricades and a door.

A FOB is 'supplied through logistics', and the wiki names three supply types: 'Building Supplies — construct and repair structures. Ammo Supplies — static weapon emplacements such as mortars and anti-air. Fuel Supplies.' Every structure in the table above consumes at least one of them, and the emplacements consume two (building to make, ammo to fire).

Supplies are bought at the spawn base and moved by players. PCGamesN's mortar guide: ammunition 'like building supplies, is purchased from the spawn base — so make sure you either have some in your inventory or politely ask your pilot teammates to drop some off.' Its money guide describes the pilot's side — buy supply crates at spawn, fill them, drop them in the zone, get paid when teammates buy from them — and the changelog priced the Pilot track's small armoured supply crate at $10,000 (was $5,000). So a FOB has a running cost paid by whoever keeps it fed, and a revenue stream for whoever does the feeding.

The wiki's placement advice is short and worth taking literally: FOBs 'can be particularly effective when established near the Control Zone, Hot Zone, towers, important routes, or defensible terrain.' Each of those has a reason in another source. Near the Control Zone because that is where head count scores. Near the Hot Zone because cash and count double there — and because a tower base with the full code can pull the Hot Zone to itself (PCGamesN). At a tower because it is a 'focal point for your FOBs' with a vantage point built in. On a route because the spawn-to-zone drive is long and taxis, supply runs and the mobile spawn point all use roads.

PCGamesN's practical version for a new player: the tower nearest your spawn. It is reachable, the cooldown gives you time to build before anyone can flip it, and 'each successfully constructed building earns you Support XP and a bit of cash'.

The Season 1 changelog is explicit: 'Forward Operating Base and Large Hammer vendor prices have gone up to make them more of a choice.' The FOB went from $2,500 to $7,500; the vendor's Large Hammer from $1,600 to $2,400; the Support track's Medium Hammer from $10,000 to $25,000 and its Large Hammer from $25,000 to $75,000. The Large Hammer's Support unlock moved from level 7 to 8. The vehicles that carry supplies also moved: URAL down to $35,000, URAL Covered unlock down from Driver 30 to 18, Kodiak Flatbed up to $35,000 but its unlock changed from Driver 2 to 10, Large Supply Crate unlock down from Driver 20 to 16.

For a squad, that means a base is a shared purchase: one player's $7,500 FOB, another's $2,400 hammer, a pilot's $10,000 crate. The 'Big Spender' achievement ($100,000 on a single loadout) is the ceiling of what one player can put on the line; a base spreads that risk across the team.

Buy: one player takes the $7,500 FOB and a hammer; a pilot takes a supply crate ($10,000 for the small armoured one). Move: drive or fly to the site — a tower nearest spawn for a first attempt, or near the Control Zone or a route for a team that knows the zone. Place: put the FOB down and start with the wiki's first item, sandbags and fortifications, which need building supplies and pay Support XP and cash per structure. Defend: add Talon anti-air or CIWS before the first helicopter arrives, then a mortar once a Support-8 player is present, fed by ammo supplies. Sustain: keep building, ammo and fuel supplies coming from the spawn base; the pilot who delivers them is paid when teammates buy from the crate. Repair and refuel bays keep the team's vehicles in the fight without the drive home.

Then the tower play: if the base is at a tower, capture it once the cooldown clears, collect code parts from other towers, and decide whether the base can hold the Hot Zone before entering the full code. Every step above is documented in the wiki, the changelog or PCGamesN; what is not documented — build times, structure health, supply quantities per structure — is left out on purpose.

Support XP and cash per completed structure make building the safest income in the game, per PCGamesN. Two rules from the developer apply. First, BULKHEAD's enforcement policy lists 'playing to farm rewards rather than to play the game' among bannable conduct, and patch 0.11 adds 'XP farming' to the list it will act on; building useful structures is not farming, building and demolishing the same wall is. Second, the changelog notes a fix for 'a crash involving buildables' and that 'dropped items no longer affect navigation', so if your base has been crashing clients, the launch build addressed at least one cause.

The FOB also anchors the Hot Zone play from the towers guide and hosts the mortar from the mortar guide. Read those two next; together with this page they are the whole construction side of WARDOGS as the sources currently describe it.