Pickaxe
A Pickaxe, useful for gathering ore from rocks.
pickaxe
How to get it
- Crafted
- Found in loot
- Bought from a vendor for 50 Scrap, or 150 Scrap, or 150 Scrap
- Worn by NPCs Melee, Science Pickaxe
Melee stats
- Damage
- 30
- Swing every
- 1.5s
- Damage a second
- 20
- Reach
- 1.5m
- Damage type
- Stab 20, Slash 10
Repair
At a repair bench, fully worn: 25 Metal Fragments, 20 Wood. 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 | 50 Wood, 62 to 63 Metal Fragments | 5s |
| Barrel recycler40% back | 40 Wood, 50 Metal Fragments | 8s |
| Powered recycler75% back | 75 Wood, 93 to 94 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 2 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
- 400
- Repairable
- Yes
- Research table
- 30 scrap
- Despawns after
- 20 min
- Item id
- -1302129395
- Has skins
- Yes
Workbench level 1 · 30s
- 100
Wood - 125
Metal Fragments
The chance that a freshly spawned container, or a killed NPC, gives you at least one Pickaxe. Best chance first.
76 skins exist for this item, most traded first. Showing the top 24. Browse the full catalogue.
Values read from the Rust dedicated server files, build 24613624.