Rust Gathering Yields

Times are for a full stone node (500 HP) and a large beech tree (1,000 HP), without the bonus marker: the hits each tool needs, times its swing time. A tool that wastes part of each hit needs a hit or two more or fewer on the other nodes. Animal tools show speed against the fastest. The Hatchet, Stone Hatchet, Stone Pickaxe and Rock waste part of each hit: they empty a tree or node in fewer hits but get less from it. The Chainsaw, Salvaged Axe, Pickaxe, Salvaged Icepick and Jackhammer get the full amount. The Chainsaw and the Jackhammer also count every swing as a bonus hit, so they clear faster than their damage per second suggests.

Hit the glowing marker (the X on a tree, the hot-spot on a node) to deal more damage per hit, up to 3× on a node and 2× on a tree. You finish faster; the total does not change. The Jackhammer on ore and the Chainsaw on trees count every swing as a bonus hit: 15 hits for a Jackhammer on a stone node, 21 for a Chainsaw on a large beech tree.

The hit that empties a node or tree adds a bonus on top of the hits. Stone Node: 250 Stones; Metal Node: 100 Metal Ore and 2 High Quality Metal Ore; Sulfur Node: 100 Sulfur Ore; HQM Node: 8 High Quality Metal Ore. Most trees add the same wood again. On ore, a tool that wastes 20% or more of each hit gets no bonus; on a tree it gets a smaller one.