Rust item database (every item by category)

Rust (2026) item lookup with stacks and recycle yields. Per-item depth: rustlabs.com.

Recycle = monument (~60%); Safe Zone ~40%[^1]. HQM = High Quality Metal; Frag = Metal Fragments.

Components

From crates, barrels, recycling.

Tools

All tools stack 1.

Weapons — Melee

Melee stacks 1.

Weapons — Ranged

Ranged weapons stack 1.

Ammunition

Armor

All armor stacks 1.

Food

Cook raw meat to avoid poisoning[^6].

Medical

Building Blocks

Tier: Twig -> Wood -> Stone -> Sheet Metal -> Armored.

Deployables

Electrical & Industrial

See companion electrical/industrial guides.

Sources

[^1]: RUST Recycler Guide 2026 - rustmods.com [^2]: Recycler - Rust Fandom Wiki; Metal Blade - Rust Fandom [^3]: MP5A4 - Facepunch Wiki [^4]: Thompson - Rust Fandom Wiki [^5]: Heavy Plate Helmet - Rust Labs [^6]: Food & Hunger - Rust Fandom Wiki

Also: rustlabs.com, Facepunch wiki, Corrosion Hour.

Want item-specific detail? rustlabs.com is the comprehensive item database — this page is the high-level index.

Item shortnames — the language of commands

Every item in Rust has two names: a display name you see in the UI ("Assault Rifle") and an internal shortname the game's commands actually use (rifle.ak). Spawn commands, plugin configs, kit definitions, and vending-machine setups all require the shortname — the display name will simply fail. Learning the naming pattern means you rarely have to look one up.

The shortname pattern is category.variant. Once you know the category prefixes, most items are guessable:

Two naming traps catch everyone: stone the resource is stones (plural), and metal fragments are metal.fragments while High Quality Metal is metal.refined — "refined," not "hqm." When a command returns "item not found," the spelling is wrong; cross-check against rustlabs.com, which lists the shortname on every item page.

Stack sizes — the hidden logistics layer

Stack size is not trivia — it dictates how much storage and how many trips your base economy needs. Items fall into broad stacking bands, and knowing them lets you plan box counts before you ever start hoarding.

The practical math: a large wood box holds 48 slots. At 1000 wood per slot that is 48,000 wood — but a stack of guns is 1 per slot, so an armory of 48 weapons fills the same box. This is why loot rooms separate bulk storage (a few boxes hold a fortune in resources) from gear storage (which sprawls). When you design a base, count gun and component slots, not resource tonnage — components and weapons are what actually eat your storage.

Condition and durability — the item-as-consumable model

Many Rust items are not permanent. Tools, weapons, and armor carry a condition value that drains with use; at zero condition the item breaks and is destroyed. Understanding this changes how you treat your kit.

• Tools degrade per swing. A metal hatchet or pickaxe loses condition every hit. It can be repaired at a repair bench using a fraction of its crafting cost, but each repair also lowers its maximum condition slightly — a tool cannot be repaired forever.
• Guns degrade per shot and especially when they jam. A worn weapon jams more often. Repair restores reliability but, again, chips away at max condition.
• Armor degrades when it absorbs hits. Heavily damaged armor protects less. This is why raiders carry spare armor pieces.
• Some items have no condition — building blocks, deployables, and resources do not "wear out" in your inventory (though placed structures decay separately via the upkeep system).

The repair bench is the counter to all of this: it restores condition for cheap materials, but the shrinking max-condition means every tool and gun is ultimately a slow consumable. The meta consequence — never get attached to a single weapon. Top players treat guns as ammunition: used, repaired a few times, then replaced. Carrying a "perfect" gun you are afraid to lose is a mistake; the item exists to be spent.

How to read a rustlabs item page

This page is a high-level index; rustlabs.com is the exhaustive per-item database, updated within days of every monthly patch. Knowing how to read one of its pages turns it into a complete reference. Every item page gives you:

• Shortname and item ID — copy these straight into spawn commands and kit configs.
• Crafting cost and required workbench tier — exact materials and which bench you need.
• Recycle output — what the recycler returns. This is the key data for the scrap-farming loop: some items recycle into more value than they cost.
• Tech tree position and research scrap cost — how to unlock it without finding the blueprint.
• "Used to craft" list — every recipe the item feeds into, so you can see what a component is actually for.
• For weapons: damage, rate of fire, aim cone, and a damage-vs-distance table — the raw numbers behind the Combat Math page.
• For building parts: HP and the exact raid cost in every explosive — the foundation of all raid planning.

The verification habit: Rust's mechanics are stable for years, but its numbers drift every monthly patch — costs, HP, damage, stack sizes. Any guide's specific values can silently go stale. Before you commit a plan that depends on an exact number — a raid cost, a craft cost, a recycle yield — confirm it on rustlabs.com against the current wipe. Treat this index for the shape of the system and rustlabs for the live numbers, and you will never be caught out by a patch.

Item tiers — reading the workbench gates

Every craftable item is locked behind one of three workbench tiers, and that gate — not the raw material cost — is the real progression curve of a wipe. Knowing which tier an item lives at tells you how far into a wipe you must be before you can field it.

The benches themselves cost escalating scrap to build — Tier 1 is cheap, Tier 2 is a meaningful investment, and Tier 3 is a genuine mid-wipe milestone. This is why the tech tree exists: rather than hunt for a blueprint, you can research an item directly at the appropriate bench by spending scrap. The new Prototype workbench augmentation (May 2026) bends this rule, letting you research any item at double scrap cost with a fail chance — but for the vast majority of players the tier gate is a hard wall that defines what is possible at any given hour of a wipe.

The strategic read: when you scout an enemy base or judge a fight, ask which tier their gear implies. A group with Tier 2 guns has a Workbench Level 2 somewhere and cannot yet field C4 or AKs — they raid with satchels and run rifles you can out-range. A group flashing AKs and rockets has a Tier 3 bench and the scrap economy to feed it. Gear is a window into infrastructure: every weapon an opponent carries tells you what bench they own and therefore what they can do to your base.