Battering Ram
A reinforced siege weapon built for smashing through wooden and stone constructions with brute force. Must be repaired with high quality metal to keep functioning.
batteringram
How to get it
- Crafted
- Found in loot
Recycling
| Recycler | Returns | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Recycler50% back | 250 Wood, 1 Sheet Metal, 0 to 1 Tarp, 50 High Quality Metal | 5s |
| Barrel recycler40% back | 200 Wood, 0 to 1 Sheet Metal, 0 to 1 Tarp, 40 High Quality Metal | 8s |
| Powered recycler75% back | 375 Wood, 1 to 2 Sheet Metal, 0 to 1 Tarp, 75 High Quality 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, 11 unlocks in, reachable after Python Revolver.
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
- Research table
- 30 scrap
- Despawns after
- 40 min
- Item id
- -187304968
- Has skins
- No
Workbench level 2 · 30s
Battering Ram has 1000 health and ignores 40% of explosion damage.
15 x 12 Gauge Incendiary Shell for 300 sulfur. No mix of tools beats it.
Cheapest explosive on its own: 4 x High Velocity Rocket for 800 sulfur, about 14s. That is what most raids actually run, because sulfur is not the only cost.
| Raid tool | Amount | Time to raid | Raw materials | Sulfur |
|---|---|---|---|---|
High Velocity RocketSplash 3.5m | 4 | 14s | 1,200 Charcoal, 800 Sulfur, 80 Scrap | 800 |
F1 GrenadeSplash 6m | 22 | 25s | 1,980 Charcoal, 1,320 Sulfur, 550 Metal Fragments | 1,320 |
| 16 | 28s | 11,520 Charcoal, 7,680 Sulfur, 1,280 Metal Fragments | 7,680 | |
| 16 | 28s | 11,520 Charcoal, 7,680 Sulfur, 1,280 Metal Fragments | 7,680 | |
| 6 | 31s | 11,700 Charcoal, 8,400 Sulfur, 600 Metal Fragments | 8,400 | |
| 4 | 14s | 12,000 Charcoal, 8,800 Sulfur, 800 Metal Fragments | 8,800 | |
| 4 | 14s | 12,000 Charcoal, 8,800 Sulfur, 800 Metal Fragments | 8,800 | |
Beancan GrenadeSplash 4.5m | 75 | 1m 19s | 13,500 Charcoal, 9,000 Sulfur, 1,500 Metal Fragments | 9,000 |
| 11 | 21s | 14,850 Charcoal, 9,900 Sulfur, 1,100 Metal Fragments | 9,900 | |
| 43 | 56s | 43 40mm HE Grenade | - |
A battering ram has no soft side, so these are its only numbers. Times are exact for melee and for anything fired: swings times swing delay, or shots times fire rate plus the reloads that forces. For a charge you place by hand it is one second per charge plus the fuse, and that one second is the only estimate here. Melee tool counts assume fresh tools, because repairing lowers a tool's maximum condition each time and that rate is not in the files we read. Vanilla server settings, contact range, no distance falloff.
The chance that a freshly spawned container, or a killed NPC, gives you at least one Battering Ram. 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.