Ballista
A stationary ballista, perfect for defence. Can fire deadly bolts at distant targets.
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How to get it
- Crafted
- Found in loot
Repair
At a repair bench, fully worn: 135 Metal Fragments. A half worn one costs half as much.
- Condition lost per repair
- None, it repairs to full forever
- Blueprint needed
- Yes
Rust stores no repair cost. The bench builds one from the crafting recipe: components are swapped for the first ingredient of their own recipe, then everything is charged at 20% and rounded up.
Recycling
| Recycler | Returns | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Recycler50% back | 125 Metal Fragments, 0 to 1 Gears, 1 Sheet Metal | 5s |
| Barrel recycler40% back | 100 Metal Fragments, 0 to 1 Gears, 0 to 1 Sheet Metal | 8s |
| Powered recycler75% back | 187 to 188 Metal Fragments, 0 to 1 Gears, 1 to 2 Sheet Metal | 4s |
A range means the last unit is a coin flip rather than a guarantee: half the recipe rarely divides evenly, and the recycler rolls for the remainder.
Tech tree
On the workbench 2 tree, 12 unlocks in, reachable after Battering Ram.
No scrap price on the tree itself: every node ships with its cost overridden to -1 and the fallback is not recoverable from the files. The research table price above is a different number and that one is derivable.
Stats
- Category
- Siege
- Stack size
- 1
- Durability
- 100
- Repairable
- Yes
- Research table
- 30 scrap
- Despawns after
- 40 min
- Item id
- 1714509152
- Has skins
- No
Workbench level 2 · 30s
Total raw materials
What you actually have to farm, with every sub-component broken down.
The chance that a freshly spawned container, or a killed NPC, gives you at least one Ballista. Best chance first.
| Source | Chance of at least one | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Treasure BoxContainer | 1.56% | 1 |
| Locked CrateContainer | 1.34% | 1 |
| Elite CrateContainer | 0.78% | 1 |
| Scientist PT Boat DryboxContainer | 0.73% | 1 |
| Gingerbread Mine PresentContainer | 0.42% | 1 |
| Military CrateContainer | 0.42% | 1 |
| Underwater Lab Military CrateContainer | 0.42% | 1 |
| Wagon Military CrateContainer | 0.42% | 1 |
| NVG ScientistNPC | 0.30% | 1 |
| Arctic Research Base ScientistNPC | 0.07% | 1 |
| Arena ScientistNPC | 0.07% | 1 |
| Bradley ScientistNPC | 0.07% | 1 |
| Cargo Ship ScientistNPC | 0.07% | 1 |
| Cargo Ship Turret ScientistNPC | 0.07% | 1 |
| Cargo Ship Turret Scientist (LR300)NPC | 0.07% | 1 |
| Chinook Door GunnerNPC | 0.07% | 1 |
| Excavator ScientistNPC | 0.07% | 1 |
| Oil Rig ScientistNPC | 0.07% | 1 |
| Outbreak ScientistNPC | 0.07% | 1 |
| Patrol ScientistNPC | 0.07% | 1 |
| Roaming ScientistNPC | 0.07% | 1 |
| Tethered Roaming ScientistNPC | 0.07% | 1 |
| Heavy ScientistNPC | 0.06% | 1 |
| Heavy Scientist (Bradley)NPC | 0.06% | 1 |
Values read from the Rust dedicated server files, build 24613624.