Safe Zone Recycler
Found in safe zones. Gives back 40% of an item's crafting cost, 8 s a cycle, with no power needed.
Facts
- Rate
- 40%
- Cycle
- 8 s
- Needs power
- No
- Found in
- Safe zones
Rates
of an item's crafting cost| Recycler | Gives back | Cycle (s) | What sets it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Safe zone | 40% | 8 | Yellow recyclers stand in safe zones. They give back the lowest rate and need no power. The Power Plant grid does not change them. |
Where to find it
count per monumentExample: recycling Gears
a stack of 20| When | Rate | Cycle (s) | Scrap a Gear | Gears a cycle | Scrap a minute |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Any number of Heavy Fuses | 40% | 8 | 8 | 2 | 120 |
Scrap scales with the rate. The scrap number on an item page is its 50% figure.
What a safe zone recycler gives for every item
832 itemsShowing 50 of 832 items, most scrap first
Per item recycled, at full condition. +N% is the chance of one more unit. Scrap is the average: its leftover fraction carries over to the next item. Damaged items return less.
Other recyclers
| Recycler | Gives back | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Monument | 50% | Green recyclers at monuments while the Power Plant has fewer than 4 Heavy Fuses in. |
| Monument (powered) | 60% | Green recyclers once the Power Plant has 4 or more Heavy Fuses in. With 18 or more in they also cycle faster. |
| Power Plant | 75% | The red recycler at the Power Plant. Only runs with 18 or more Heavy Fuses in. |
Methodology
Tested in game on our own server: the rate and cycle time of each recycler, what each Heavy Fuse count changes, and the yield of all 1,010 recyclable items at 40%, 50%, 60% and 75%. Monument counts come from full maps we generated. Tested on the current version of Rust.
Related pages
Safe Zone Recycler: common questions
- What percent does a safe zone recycler give in Rust?
- 40% of an item's crafting cost, the lowest rate. A cycle takes 8 s.
- Where are safe zone recyclers in Rust?
- Floating City (3), Outpost (3) and Bandit Camp (2).
- Does the Power Plant change the safe zone recycler?
- No. It stays at 40% and 8 s a cycle at any number of Heavy Fuses.
- How much scrap does a safe zone recycler give per minute?
- Gears pay 8 scrap each and a cycle takes 2 of them, so that is 120 scrap a minute.