Incendiary Bolt

A fire-tipped bolt for a ballista, wrapped in burning cloth, ignites upon impact.

ballista.bolt.incendiary

How to get it

  • Crafted

Recycling

RecyclerReturnsTime
Recycler50% back25 Metal Fragments, 5 Cloth, 5 Low Grade Fuel5s
Barrel recycler40% back20 Metal Fragments, 4 Cloth, 4 Low Grade Fuel8s
Powered recycler75% back37 to 38 Metal Fragments, 7 to 8 Cloth, 7 to 8 Low Grade Fuel4s

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, 13 unlocks in, reachable after Ballista.

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
Ammunition
Stack size
3
Research table
30 scrap
Despawns after
20 min
Item id
-1987565603
Has skins
No

Workbench level 2 · 10s

Total raw materials

What you actually have to farm, with every sub-component broken down.

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