Build a Base and Steal Raid Readiness Checklist

What the checklist checks

The raid readiness checklist turns the game's three controllable risks into questions before you leave your base: home security (would your walls and traps hold the raid kit you yourself carry?), pet space (is there a free slot for the pet you plan to bring home?), and the return route (do you know the trip home from the target's doorstep?).

Each answer maps to a documented game system. Home security maps to the defense economy: layered walls, the +3 permanent defense blocks each rebirth pays, Bear Traps on likely approaches, and requirement pets in the deepest slot. Pet space maps to the +2 slots each rebirth tier adds. The return route is the one number raid decisions run on - how long you are away from home.

How to use the result

Treat a failed check as the game telling you what to buy. Home security failures route Cash to the defense line (the July catalog names - Stone, Brick and Gold Blocks, Spikes, Laser Door - are the shopping list), space failures route to the rebirth ladder, and route failures mean one practice walk in a free private server before the real attempt.

The checklist is deliberately conservative: the steal mechanic punishes greed harder than it rewards it, because a successful raid that ends with your own base emptied nets zero or worse.

Re-run it after every update. The mid-2026 patch cadence (codes, mutations, clans) moved systems repeatedly, and defense assumptions age one patch at a time.