Metal Barricade
A tough metal barricade with barbed wire, made from Metal Fragments. The barbed wire causes damage and will also slow player movement.
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How to get it
- Crafted
- Found in loot
Recycling
| Recycler | Returns | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Recycler50% back | 100 Metal Fragments, 1 Metal Blade | 5s |
| Barrel recycler40% back | 80 Metal Fragments, 0 to 1 Metal Blade | 8s |
| Powered recycler75% back | 150 Metal Fragments, 1 to 2 Metal Blade | 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, 5 unlocks in, reachable after Concrete Barricade.
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
- Construction
- Stack size
- 10
- Research table
- 60 scrap
- Despawns after
- 40 min
- Decays
- starts after 5h, gone 8h later
- Item id
- 1655650836
- Has skins
- No
Workbench level 2 · 30s
Total raw materials
What you actually have to farm, with every sub-component broken down.
- 260
Metal Fragments - 20
Scrap
Metal Barricade has 600 health.
334 x Handmade Shell for 1,670 sulfur. No mix of tools beats it.
Cheapest explosive on its own: 4 x Propane Explosive Bomb for 3,600 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 14s | 5,400 Charcoal, 3,600 Sulfur, 400 Metal Fragments | 3,600 | |
| 8 | 20s | 5,760 Charcoal, 3,840 Sulfur, 640 Metal Fragments | 3,840 | |
| 8 | 20s | 5,760 Charcoal, 3,840 Sulfur, 640 Metal Fragments | 3,840 | |
High Velocity RocketSplash 3.5m | 20 | 30s | 6,000 Charcoal, 4,000 Sulfur, 400 Scrap | 4,000 |
| 3 | 12s | 5,850 Charcoal, 4,200 Sulfur, 300 Metal Fragments | 4,200 | |
| 2 | 12s | 6,000 Charcoal, 4,400 Sulfur, 400 Metal Fragments | 4,400 | |
| 2 | 12s | 6,000 Charcoal, 4,400 Sulfur, 400 Metal Fragments | 4,400 | |
Beancan GrenadeSplash 4.5m | 38 | 42s | 6,840 Charcoal, 4,560 Sulfur, 760 Metal Fragments | 4,560 |
F1 GrenadeSplash 6m | 343 | 5m 46s | 30,870 Charcoal, 20,580 Sulfur, 8,575 Metal Fragments | 20,580 |
| 17 | 18s | 17 40mm HE Grenade | - |
A metal barricade 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 Metal Barricade. 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.