Rust Vending Machine Raid Cost: Rockets, C4 & Satchels

Crafting

Workbench
Craft time: 30s
Blueprint: Known by default
Research

Ingredients

20
3

Total raw materials

Includes the cost of crafting sub-components for the batch shown above.

Raiding

Ignores 50% of explosion damage.

Lowest sulfur · single tool

Explosive · Vending Machine · 10 matching methods

Attached

Cost

About 15s

Plan multiple targets →

Raid tool	Amount	Time to raid	Sulfur
AttachedNo wall splash	5	15s	11,000
LooseNo wall splash	5	15s	11,000
AttachedNo wall splash	29	41s	13,920
LooseNo wall splash	29	41s	13,920
UsingSplash 3.8m	10	56s	14,000
DeployedSplash 4m	16	26s	14,400
Splash 4.5m	139	2m 23s	16,680
Splash 3.5m	84	1m 34s	16,800
Splash 6m	1,241	20m 44s	74,460
UsingSplash 4m	70	1m 29s	-

One target at full health and contact range, vanilla settings, fresh melee tools. This target has no soft side.

How counts and times are worked out

The splash filter describes sharing damage across walls, not collateral damage to players or nearby deployables. C4 and satchels do not share construction damage even when loose. Counts are for one target; visibility and distance determine possible splash.

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.

Recycle & repair

Recycling

Per item at full condition. Green’s 60% boost needs 4 heavy fuses at the Power Plant; red requires maximum power (18 fuses).

Returns	50% efficiency · 5s per cycle	60% efficiency · 5s per cycle 4.5s at maximum power	40% efficiency · 8s per cycle	75% efficiency · 4s per cycle
	10	12	8	15
	1 to 2	1 to 2	1 to 2	2 to 3

How returns work

Component fractions are random rolls; Scrap fractions carry over between cycles. Worn items return less.

Repair

Repair bench cost when fully worn.

15
4

Condition lost per repair: None, it repairs to full forever
Blueprint needed: No

Repair cost rules

A half worn item costs half as much to repair. 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.

Stats

Gameplay details

Stack size: 1
Durability: 100
Repairable: Yes
Despawns after: 20 min

Technical details

Category: Items
Item id: 198,438,816
Shortname: vending.machine
Has skins: No

In-game description

Trade your goods with other players safely by creating sell and buy orders. If a raider gains access to the rear panel, they will have free reign over all of your goodies. Keep it safe.

Workshop skins

Most traded first.