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

RecyclerReturnsTime
Recycler50% back50 Wood, 62 to 63 Metal Fragments5s
Barrel recycler40% back40 Wood, 50 Metal Fragments8s
Powered recycler75% back75 Wood, 93 to 94 Metal Fragments4s

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

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