Strobe Light
A flashing light, 3 speeds. Causes seizures.
strobelight
How to get it
- Crafted
- Steam store or DLC
Repair
At a repair bench, fully worn: 20 Metal Fragments, 1 High Quality Metal. A half worn one costs half as much.
- Condition lost per repair
- None, it repairs to full forever
- Blueprint needed
- No
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 Metal Fragments, 1 High Quality Metal | 5s |
| Barrel recycler40% back | 40 Metal Fragments, 0 to 1 High Quality Metal | 8s |
| Powered recycler75% back | 75 Metal Fragments, 1 to 2 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.
Stats
- Category
- Misc
- Stack size
- 1
- Durability
- 60
- Repairable
- Yes
- Research table
- 120 scrap
- Despawns after
- 5 min
- Decays
- starts after 48h, gone 96h later
- Item id
- 2104517339
- Has skins
- No
No workbench · 15s
Strobe Light has 100 health and ignores 50% of explosion damage.
56 x Handmade Shell for 280 sulfur. No mix of tools beats it.
Cheapest explosive on its own: 1 x Rocket for 1,400 sulfur, about 0s. That is what most raids actually run, because sulfur is not the only cost.
| Raid tool | Amount | Time to raid | Raw materials | Sulfur |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 0s | 1,950 Charcoal, 1,400 Sulfur, 100 Metal Fragments | 1,400 | |
High Velocity RocketSplash 3.5m | 7 | 17s | 2,100 Charcoal, 1,400 Sulfur, 140 Scrap | 1,400 |
| 3 | 15s | 2,160 Charcoal, 1,440 Sulfur, 240 Metal Fragments | 1,440 | |
| 3 | 15s | 2,160 Charcoal, 1,440 Sulfur, 240 Metal Fragments | 1,440 | |
Beancan GrenadeSplash 4.5m | 12 | 16s | 2,160 Charcoal, 1,440 Sulfur, 240 Metal Fragments | 1,440 |
| 2 | 12s | 2,700 Charcoal, 1,800 Sulfur, 200 Metal Fragments | 1,800 | |
| 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 | |
F1 GrenadeSplash 6m | 58 | 1m 1s | 5,220 Charcoal, 3,480 Sulfur, 1,450 Metal Fragments | 3,480 |
| 6 | 2s | 6 40mm HE Grenade | - |
A strobe 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.
Values read from the Rust dedicated server files, build 24613624.