Fridge

A fridge you can store food into!

fridge

How to get it

Crafted
Found in loot

Repair

At a repair bench, fully worn: 30 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	75 Metal Fragments	5s
Barrel recycler40% back	60 Metal Fragments	8s
Powered recycler75% back	112 to 113 Metal Fragments	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 1 tree, available from the start of it.

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: Electrical
Stack size: 1
Durability: 100
Repairable: Yes
Research table: 15 scrap
Despawns after: 5 min
Decays: starts after 48h, gone 96h later
Item id: 1413014235
Has skins: No

Workbench level 1 · 30s

150Metal Fragments

Fridge has 200 health.

Cheapest way in

12 x Handmade Shell for 60 sulfur. No mix of tools beats it.

Cheapest explosive on its own: 3 x F1 Grenade for 180 sulfur, about 6s. That is what most raids actually run, because sulfur is not the only cost.

Raid tool	Amount	Time to raid	Raw materials	Sulfur
F1 GrenadeSplash 6m	3	6s	270 Charcoal, 180 Sulfur, 75 Metal Fragments	180
High Velocity RocketSplash 3.5m	2	12s	600 Charcoal, 400 Sulfur, 40 Scrap	400
Satchel ChargeRight click stuckOne object only	1	13s	720 Charcoal, 480 Sulfur, 80 Metal Fragments	480
Satchel ChargeLeft click throwSplash 4m	1	13s	720 Charcoal, 480 Sulfur, 80 Metal Fragments	480
Beancan GrenadeSplash 4.5m	4	8s	720 Charcoal, 480 Sulfur, 80 Metal Fragments	480
RocketUsing RPG LauncherSplash 3.8m	1	0s	1,950 Charcoal, 1,400 Sulfur, 100 Metal Fragments	1,400
Propane Explosive BombDeployedSplash 4m	2	12s	2,700 Charcoal, 1,800 Sulfur, 200 Metal Fragments	1,800
Timed Explosive ChargeRight click stuckOne object only	1	11s	3,000 Charcoal, 2,200 Sulfur, 200 Metal Fragments	2,200
Timed Explosive ChargeLeft click throwSplash 4m	1	11s	3,000 Charcoal, 2,200 Sulfur, 200 Metal Fragments	2,200
40mm HE GrenadeUsing Multiple Grenade LauncherSplash 4m	4	1s	4 40mm HE Grenade	-

A fridge 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 Fridge. Best chance first.

Source	Chance of at least one	Amount
Underwater Advanced CrateContainer	1.11%	1
Normal CrateContainer	0.44%	1
Wagon Normal CrateContainer	0.44%	1
Arctic Research Base ScientistNPC	0.16%	1
Arena ScientistNPC	0.16%	1
Bradley ScientistNPC	0.16%	1
Cargo Ship ScientistNPC	0.16%	1
Cargo Ship Turret ScientistNPC	0.16%	1
Cargo Ship Turret Scientist (LR300)NPC	0.16%	1
Chinook Door GunnerNPC	0.16%	1
Excavator ScientistNPC	0.16%	1
Gingerbread ManNPC	0.16%	1
Gingerbread ManNPC	0.16%	1
Oil Rig ScientistNPC	0.16%	1
Outbreak ScientistNPC	0.16%	1
Patrol ScientistNPC	0.16%	1
Roaming ScientistNPC	0.16%	1
ScarecrowNPC	0.16%	1
ScarecrowNPC	0.16%	1
ScarecrowNPC	0.16%	1
Tethered Roaming ScientistNPC	0.16%	1
Tunnel DwellerNPC	0.16%	1
Tunnel DwellerNPC	0.16%	1
Underwater DwellerNPC	0.16%	1

Values read from the Rust dedicated server files, build 24613624.