Metal Detector
Detects metal objects which may otherwise be hidden. When the light flashes, or you hear a beep, aim to search for items. Increase the bar until a flag appears. Dig at the flag with a melee item to reveal what it is. Different areas yield different rewards
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How to get it
- Crafted
- Found in loot
Repair
At a repair bench, fully worn: 40 Metal Fragments, 12 Cloth, 1 High Quality Metal. A half worn one costs half as much.
- Condition lost per repair
- 20% of maximum
- 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 | 1 Rope, 100 Metal Fragments, 2 to 3 High Quality Metal | 5s |
| Barrel recycler40% back | 0 to 1 Rope, 80 Metal Fragments, 2 High Quality Metal | 8s |
| Powered recycler75% back | 1 to 2 Rope, 150 Metal Fragments, 3 to 4 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 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
- Tool
- Stack size
- 1
- Durability
- 100
- Repairable
- Yes
- Research table
- 30 scrap
- Despawns after
- 20 min
- Item id
- 1168856825
- Has skins
- No
Workbench level 1 · 30s
The chance that a freshly spawned container, or a killed NPC, gives you at least one Metal Detector. Best chance first.
| Source | Chance of at least one | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Cannon CrateContainer | 11.0% | 1 |
| 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.