Rust Jackhammer: Damage, DPS & Speed

Stats

Melee stats

Damage: 15
Swing every: 0.15s
Damage a second: 100
Reach: 2m
Damage type: Stab 15

Gameplay details

Stack size: 1
Durability: 300
Repairable: Yes
Despawns after: 40 min

What to know

Refill before the next farming run
The jackhammer can be refilled at a workbench or for free through a repair bench. Its ore-node hits do not require aiming at the sparkling weak spot.

Sources for this note

Rust PC · Vanilla

Refill before the next farming run · checked 5 Sept 2026
- Facepunch: Coupling The Rails · 2023-11-02
- Facepunch Wiki: Jackhammer

Technical details

Category: Tool
Item id: 1,488,979,457
Shortname: jackhammer
Has skins: No

In-game description

A Pneumatic Jackhammer to blast through ore nodes. The sheer power of this device requires no aiming as all weak spots will be instantly destroyed. Works well on human flesh. Can be refilled at a Workbench.

How to get

Loot 5 sources

Chance of at least one.

How loot chance works

The chance that a freshly spawned container, or a killed NPC, rolls at least one Jackhammer. Container chances are before inventory limits: a full crate can discard rolled items, while bonus scrap drops beside it.

Other sources

Bought from a vendor

4 vendor offers

Vendor	Price	Amount received
Tools & Stuff (Outpost)	Can vary	1
Casino Bar Shopkeeper (Floating City) · stock varies	Variable price	1
Shop Keeper (Water Well) · stock varies	Variable price	1
Travelling Vendor · stock varies	Variable price	1

Recycle & repair

Recycling

Per item at full condition. Green’s 60% boost needs 4 heavy fuses at the Power Plant; red requires maximum power (18 fuses).

50% efficiency · 5s per cycle	60% efficiency · 5s per cycle 4.5s at maximum power	40% efficiency · 8s per cycle	75% efficiency · 4s per cycle
0 to 1	0 to 1	0 to 1	0 to 1
2 to 3	3	2	3 to 4
30	36	24	45

How returns work

Component fractions are random rolls; Scrap fractions carry over between cycles. Worn items return less.

Repair

Free to repair at a repair bench.

Condition lost per repair: 5% of maximum
Blueprint needed: No

Repair cost rules

A half worn item costs half as much to repair. 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.