Telephone
Use the telephone to call other telephones on the island!
telephone
How to get it
- Crafted
- Found in loot
- Bought from a vendor for 50 Scrap
- Worn by NPCs VoiceProps
Recycling
| Recycler | Returns | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Recycler50% back | 25 Wood, 50 Metal Fragments, 0 to 1 Tech Trash | 5s |
| Barrel recycler40% back | 20 Wood, 40 Metal Fragments, 0 to 1 Tech Trash | 8s |
| Powered recycler75% back | 37 to 38 Wood, 75 Metal Fragments, 0 to 1 Tech Trash | 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
- Fun
- Stack size
- 1
- Research table
- 30 scrap
- Despawns after
- 20 min
- Decays
- starts after 8h, gone 8h later
- Item id
- 1234878710
- Has skins
- No
Workbench level 1 · 30s
Telephone has 150 health.
9 x Handmade Shell for 45 sulfur. No mix of tools beats it.
Cheapest explosive on its own: 3 x F1 Grenade for 180 sulfur, about 6s. That is what most raids actually run, because sulfur is not the only cost.
| Raid tool | Amount | Time to raid | Raw materials | Sulfur |
|---|---|---|---|---|
F1 GrenadeSplash 6m | 3 | 6s | 270 Charcoal, 180 Sulfur, 75 Metal Fragments | 180 |
Beancan GrenadeSplash 4.5m | 3 | 7s | 540 Charcoal, 360 Sulfur, 60 Metal Fragments | 360 |
| 1 | 13s | 720 Charcoal, 480 Sulfur, 80 Metal Fragments | 480 | |
| 1 | 13s | 720 Charcoal, 480 Sulfur, 80 Metal Fragments | 480 | |
High Velocity RocketSplash 3.5m | 4 | 14s | 1,200 Charcoal, 800 Sulfur, 80 Scrap | 800 |
| 1 | 11s | 1,350 Charcoal, 900 Sulfur, 100 Metal Fragments | 900 | |
| 1 | 0s | 1,950 Charcoal, 1,400 Sulfur, 100 Metal Fragments | 1,400 | |
| 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 | |
| 3 | 1s | 3 40mm HE Grenade | - |
A telephone 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 Telephone. Best chance first.
| Source | Chance of at least one | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 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.