WARDOGS FOB Guide: Building, Supplies & Defense

A Forward Operating Base in WARDOGS is a deployable construction hub that gives a team a build radius and a shared supply stockpile for walls, emplacements and vehicle support — it does not respawn players, and Season 1 tripled what it costs to put one down. This guide covers the official Season 1 vendor and unlock prices, the three hammer tiers and what each one builds, how the four supply types actually reach a FOB’s stockpile, where a FOB can legally sit, and how an enemy team takes one away from you.

A Forward Operating Base starts life as an item bought at the vendor and carried until it’s placed on the ground. Once deployed it creates a build radius where hammers can put up structures, and it holds a shared inventory of supplies that a whole team draws from. What it is not is a spawn point: community guides are consistent that respawning runs through a team’s HQ and through forward spawn vehicles instead. Bulkhead’s own patch text never sits down to formally define the FOB the way it lists prices, so this description of what a FOB is and isn’t comes from community guides, not from an official glossary entry.

The Season 1 changelog, published 9 September 2026, moved several building-related prices at once, and it’s worth keeping the three kinds of number separate: what the vendor charges per life, what it costs to unlock an item on a role track, and what level that track needs to reach first. Bulkhead’s stated reason for the FOB and Large Hammer increases was to make them “more of a choice” rather than an automatic buy.

These are the only FOB-related figures the changelog prints. Last checked against Bulkhead’s Steam announcements on 22 September 2026 (latest price change: the Season 1 changelog of 9 September; the Patch 0.11 notes of 12 September touch none of these).

What the changelog confirms: the Medium Hammer unlock ($25,000) and, for the Large Hammer, the unlock ($75,000), the vendor price ($2,400) and the Support 8 requirement. What comes from community guides: the Small Hammer at $100 (KeenGamer), the Medium Hammer’s Support 3 gate and its $800 vendor price (a second list says $400 — unsettled), and the list of structures per tier. One rule from KeenGamer worth more than the prices: “Any hammer can finish a blueprint placed by another player. You only need the required hammer tier to start that structure yourself.” So a squad needs one Large Hammer to place bunkers or mortars — not one per builder.

Community guides describe four separate supply pools inside a FOB — Build, Ammo, Fuel and Mechanical — each feeding a different part of the base. Ammo Supplies feed mortar, CIWS and SAM ammunition; Fuel Supplies feed the Refuel Station and Drill Rig; Mechanical Supplies feed the Repair Station and Stingray drone strikes.

Prices are per resource and the two figures we have are not the same thing: KeenGamer lists Build Supplies at $10 per unit ($500 for a stack of 50); AllThingsHow reports the Ammo Supplies card as a $10 purchase that adds 50 units. Do not average them — check the vendor card for each resource: purchase price, units received, stack size.

Two delivery methods, per KeenGamer: pallet — drive it into the FOB square and use Unload; the resources go to the base directly. Crate — carry the contents through your inventory and transfer them at the FOB terminal. Either way, finish by opening the FOB inventory and checking that the counter moved: cargo dropped on the ground next to the FOB is not in the stockpile. Not checked by us in the current client.

The community guides we checked agree: a FOB cannot be deployed inside a building, inside a main base, or within another FOB’s radius, and it does not need to sit inside the Control Zone. Bulkhead’s posts do not describe placement rules, and we have not tested them in the current client.

Two different things can happen to a FOB. Capture: community guides describe enemies reaching the terminal and hacking it to take the position; KeenGamer recommends covering the console with HESCO walls and a controlled entrance. A beta-era report timed the hack at about 30 seconds with a siren — pre-Season-1, not current. Destruction: one community guide says a solo enemy is more likely to blow the FOB up with a cheap explosive than to hack and hold it; a single-IED kill is that guide’s report, not a tested figure, and no FOB health value appears in the official publications we checked. What each outcome does to the stockpile and the structures inside the radius is not described in those publications either.

Not found in the official publications checked (22 September 2026): build radius size, pallet capacities, per-structure Build Supply costs, hack duration, FOB health.

“A FOB Respawns You Like an HQ”

It doesn’t. Community guides are consistent that a FOB provides construction space and supply storage only — respawning still runs through HQ and forward spawn vehicles.

“Dropping Supplies Near the FOB Is Close Enough”

Two separate community sources report the same trap: cargo left beside the FOB without being transferred through the unload prompt adds nothing to the stockpile.

“The Large Hammer Is Just a Bigger Bill”

It’s also a level gate. Season 1 moved the requirement to Support level 8 on top of raising the unlock cost to $75,000, so cash alone doesn’t get a player there.

Sources and Confidence

This table separates what the studio has confirmed from what comes out of press previews, and what is still just circulating. Each claim below is tied to the post and the game version it describes.