Recycle Bin Workbench Upgrade
Crafting at a workbench with this upgrade has a chance to refund up to 10% of the ingredient costs back to you in raw material form.
Looted from
| Container | Chance |
|---|---|
| 0.6% |
| Monument | Per full clear | Crates |
|---|---|---|
| 0.2 | 17 Crate | |
| 0.2 | 16 Crate | |
| 0.2 | 16 Crate | |
| 0.1 | 14 Crate | |
| 0.1 | 13 Crate |
What opening every crate and barrel there once gives, on average.
Methodology
Best places to find it. Worked out from loot tables tested in game. A crate that has not been tested yet is left out, so a monument can give more than shown.
Recycling
| Recycler | Always | Chance of one more |
|---|---|---|
 Power Plant75% | None | |
 Monument (powered)60% | None | |
| Monument50% | None | |
 Safe zone40% | None |
One item at full condition. Scrap is an average: the part after the point carries over to the next item.
Workbench upgrade
- Each craft refunds a random 0-10% of every ingredient into the recycle bin
More Components
Wearing it
Survival
Farming & fishing
Repair
Electrical & stations
Measured on a bench
Craft calculator| Item | Ingredient | Spent | Back | Back (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24,000 | 1,181 | 4.9 | ||
| 15,000 | 782 | 5.2 | ||
| 60,000 | 3,093 | 5.2 | ||
| 300 | 11 | 3.7 | ||
| 1,200 | 76 | 6.3 | ||
| 3,000 | 140 | 4.7 | ||
| 1,500 | 79 | 5.3 | ||
| 6,000 | 299 | 5.0 | ||
| 1,500 | 72 | 4.8 | ||
| 600 | 30 | 5.0 |
Every craft returns a random 0 to 10% of each ingredient to the bin, so over many crafts you get 5% back.
Vehicles & mounts
Details
Methodology
Tested in game: 300 crafts per item on our own server.
The bench refuses a second copy of the same upgrade, so this never stacks with itself. With another upgrade: efficiency + recyclebin on 8x Zoom Scope made 327 from 300 crafts and returned 5.4% High Quality Metal; efficiency + recyclebin on 5.56 Rifle Ammo made 1002 from 300 crafts and returned 4.9% Metal Fragments, 4.8% Gun Powder.
Recycle Bin Workbench Upgrade: common questions
- Where do you find Recycle Bin Workbench Upgrade?
- It drops from Crate (0.6%). The most from one full clear: Airfield (0.2), Launch Site (0.2) and Missile Silo (0.2).
- What does Recycle Bin Workbench Upgrade recycle for?
- Recycling Recycle Bin Workbench Upgrade at a powered monument recycler (60%) returns 60 Metal Fragments. Safe-zone recyclers pay 40%; the Power Plant red recycler pays 75%.