Where should I build in Rust?

Near the items you use most, with room to expand once the basics are safe.

How many layers of wall?

As many as the thing behind them is worth. Protect what matters, skip the rest.

Store the items you craft with right next to the station that uses them.

A good Rust base is boring on purpose: everything you need is three steps away. Layout and the items worth stockpiling come first.

Put your most-used items by the door. The time you save not running across the map adds up to hours across a week.

Think in layers. A wall is not a wall unless something behind it matters enough to protect.

Bandage (Items): Heal yourself or others with this bandage.
Anti-Radiation Pills (Items): Taking these pills will lower your radiation level.
Armor (Items): A Full list can be seen in Attire Armor is a system in Rust based on equipping particular items in the clothing slots ( by default, these are.
Animal Fat (Items): Fat from an animal.
Bear Trap (Items): see Snap Trap
12 Gauge Buckshot (Items): Ammunition for a Shotgun.
Assault Rifle (Items): High damage machine rifle.
5.56 Rifle Ammo (Items): Ammunition for a Rifle.
Apple (Items): An Apple.
Bear Meat (Items): Raw Bear Meat.
Battery - Small (Items): A Battery.
Bear Skull (Items): The Bear Skull is a resource item that is obtainable by looting the corpse of a dead bear.
Acoustic Guitar (Items): A type of instrument.
Barbed Wooden Barricade (Items): A wooden barricade with barbed wire, made of Wood and Metal Fragments.
Beancan Grenade (Items): Unreliable explosive device.
12 Gauge Slug (Items): Single large projectile for a Shotgun
Black Longsleeve T-Shirt (Items): Made popular by catburglers, french mimes and goths - this longsleeveed t-shirt features a stunning lack of color.

Leave room to grow. The base that fits today becomes the bottleneck tomorrow, so plan the expansion before you need it.

Hatchet (Weapons): This tool is a must-have for any rust player.
Pickaxe (Weapons): A Pickaxe, useful for gathering ore from rocks.
Rock (Weapons): A Rock.
Bolt Action Rifle (Weapons): A high powered, highly accurate rifle.
Revolver (Weapons): A shoddy eight-shooter.
Eoka Pistol (Weapons): A primitive pistol that fires one Shotgun round at a time.
Pump Shotgun (Weapons): A Shotgun.
Assault Rifle (Weapons): High damage machine rifle.
Bone Knife (Weapons): Melee weapon crafted from bone and wood.
Salvaged Axe (Weapons): A high-yield resource gathering axe.
Salvaged Hammer (Weapons): A Hammer made from a bunch of other crap.
F1 Grenade (Weapons): Reliable explosive device.