Search Light
A Large, wide beam, aimable light source.
searchlight
How to get it
- Crafted
- Found in loot
Recycling
| Recycler | Returns | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Recycler50% back | 250 Wood, 100 Metal Fragments | 5s |
| Barrel recycler40% back | 200 Wood, 80 Metal Fragments | 8s |
| Powered recycler75% back | 375 Wood, 150 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
- Electrical
- Stack size
- 1
- Research table
- 30 scrap
- Despawns after
- 20 min
- Decays
- starts after 8h, gone 8h later
- Item id
- 2087678962
- Has skins
- No
Workbench level 2 · 30s
- 500
Wood - 200
Metal Fragments
Search Light has 150 health and ignores 50% of explosion damage.
84 x Handmade Shell for 420 sulfur. No mix of tools beats it.
Cheapest explosive on its own: 2 x Propane Explosive Bomb for 1,800 sulfur, about 12s. That is what most raids actually run, because sulfur is not the only cost.
| Raid tool | Amount | Time to raid | Raw materials | Sulfur |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 12s | 2,700 Charcoal, 1,800 Sulfur, 200 Metal Fragments | 1,800 | |
| 4 | 16s | 2,880 Charcoal, 1,920 Sulfur, 320 Metal Fragments | 1,920 | |
| 4 | 16s | 2,880 Charcoal, 1,920 Sulfur, 320 Metal Fragments | 1,920 | |
High Velocity RocketSplash 3.5m | 10 | 20s | 3,000 Charcoal, 2,000 Sulfur, 200 Scrap | 2,000 |
Beancan GrenadeSplash 4.5m | 18 | 22s | 3,240 Charcoal, 2,160 Sulfur, 360 Metal Fragments | 2,160 |
| 1 | 11s | 3,000 Charcoal, 2,200 Sulfur, 200 Metal Fragments | 2,200 | |
| 1 | 11s | 3,000 Charcoal, 2,200 Sulfur, 200 Metal Fragments | 2,200 | |
| 2 | 6s | 3,900 Charcoal, 2,800 Sulfur, 200 Metal Fragments | 2,800 | |
F1 GrenadeSplash 6m | 86 | 1m 29s | 7,740 Charcoal, 5,160 Sulfur, 2,150 Metal Fragments | 5,160 |
| 9 | 9s | 9 40mm HE Grenade | - |
A search light 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 Search Light. 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.