
Arctic Research Base Loot

- Loot containers
- 80
- average on spawn
- Scrap from one clear
- 220
- at least, every container opened once
- Radiation
- 10
- rads/s at the strongest zone
- NPCs
- 10
- at most, at full population
- Keycard readers
- 2
- 2 blue
- Puzzle
- Recyclers
- NPCs
- Ovens and refineries
- None
- Safe zone
- No
- Monument area
- 200 × 200 m, 200 m tall
- No building
- 140 m radius around the centre
- Chinook crate drop
- No
- Patrol heli crash site
- Yes, a patrol heli shot down nearby flies here to crash
- Train tunnel entrance
- No
- Vehicles
- Puzzle order
- Swipe the blue card, the door opens.
Arctic Research Base loot on spawn
at least 220 scrap total| Container | Count | Scrap each | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Loot Barrel II | 20 | 2 | 40 |
| Loot Barrel | 17 | 2 | 34 |
| Crate | 8 | 5 | 40 |
| Oil Barrel | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Military Crate | 6 | 8 | 48 |
| Food Crate | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Fuel Crate | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Vehicle Parts Crate | 4 | 8+ | 32+ |
| Ammo Crate | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Tech Parts Crate II | 2 | 8+ | 16+ |
| Tool Crate | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| Food Box | 1 | - | - |
Opening everything once gives at least 220 scrap. Crates respawn on the monument's own timers. What you find here lists every item they give.
Arctic Research Base radiation
no protection worn| Zone | Tier | Radius (m) | Centre (rads/s) | Half radius (rads/s) | Protection to block |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | low | 17.3 | 10 | - | 10 |
| 2 | low | 17.3 | 10 | - | 10 |
| 3 | minimal | 114 | 2 | - | 2 |
| 4 | low | 17.3 | 10 | - | 10 |
Rads per second. Your radiation protection subtracts from these, and the game caps protection at 50, so a zone above 50 always lets some through. What to wear names the gear that blocks it, and the radiation guide compares every monument.
What to wear
10% protection stops the strongest zone- Strongest zone
- 10 rads a second with nothing on. 10% protection stops all of it. The protection of everything you wear adds up.
- Lightest that is enough
- Snow Jacket20%Slot: chest. Craft at workbench level 1. Stops all of it.
- Cheap full kit
39% in all. Common or uncommon clothes made at workbench level 1 or lower. Stops all of it.
Every piece that helps at Arctic Research Base
| Piece | Protection | Rads through |
|---|---|---|
| 50% | none | |
| 20% | none | |
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Rads through is the dose at the strongest spot of the strongest zone with only that piece worn, the same figure as on the piece's own page. Pieces under 10% protection, the strongest zone of the weakest monument, are left out, as they are on the attire pages.
What you find here
282 items, average per full clear| Components 25 items | Per clear |
|---|---|
| 11 | |
| 9.8 | |
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| Weapons 30 items | Per clear |
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| 0.5 | |
| 0.2 | |
| 0.2 | |
| 0.1 | |
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| Attachments 6 items | Per clear |
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| Ammo 13 items | Per clear |
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| 38 | |
| 13 | |
| 10 | |
| 8.5 | |
| 5.5 |
| Explosives 3 items | Per clear |
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| Medical 2 items | Per clear |
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| under 0.1 | |
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| Resources 6 items | Per clear |
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| 273 | |
| 172 | |
| 112 | |
| 20 | |
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| 0.4 |
| Attire 41 items | Per clear |
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| 0.4 | |
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| Tools 15 items | Per clear |
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| Electrical 59 items | Per clear |
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| 0.4 | |
| 0.2 | |
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| Building 30 items | Per clear |
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| 0.5 | |
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| 0.3 | |
| 0.2 |
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| Items 29 items | Per clear |
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| Traps 6 items | Per clear |
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| 0.4 | |
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| Food 10 items | Per clear |
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| 1.7 | |
| 1.6 | |
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| 1.5 |
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| 1.3 |
| Siege and mounted 5 items | Per clear |
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| under 0.1 | |
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| Fun 2 items | Per clear |
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| 0.4 | |
| under 0.1 |
What opening every crate and barrel above once gives, on average, most first. The figures are the ones on each item's own page. Blueprints are not counted. Not counted, because no loot table was tested for them yet: Vehicle Parts Crate (4), Tech Parts Crate II (2), Food Box (1). A full clear gives a little more than shown.
Arctic Research Base spawns and respawn times
most alive at once| Spawns | Max at once | Per respawn | Respawn |
|---|---|---|---|
Loot Barrel40% | 19 | - | no respawn timer |
Crate50% | 6 | - | no respawn timer |
Ammo Crate50% | 5 | - | no respawn timer |
Oil Barrel88% | 5 | - | no respawn timer |
Crate50% | 4 | - | no respawn timer |
| 4 | - | no respawn timer | |
| 4 | - | no respawn timer | |
| 1 | - | no respawn timer | |
| 1 | - | no respawn timer |
A row with several items fills each spot with one of them at the odds shown. A timed row starts with one respawn's worth and adds that many each respawn until it reaches the max. Respawn times hold up to 150 players online; more players make them faster. Rows with no respawn timer fill once when the monument loads.
Methodology
Tested in game on live 4000 maps on our own server: loot containers by type (the average of 8 placed copies; containers spawn at random points, so a map can have a few more or fewer), recyclers, workbenches, research tables, repair benches, keycard readers and their tier, pickups inside the monument area, fuse boxes, NPC capacity, radiation per second and every spawner's limit and respawn time. NPCs are the monument's own guards; tunnel dwellers in a train station below and roadside scientists are not counted. No-building areas, Chinook drop zones, crash sites, train tunnel links and puzzle wiring were tested the same way. Scrap estimates use the measured average scrap per opening of each container type; a container not yet tested counts its guaranteed scrap, marked +. What you find here is each container count times the tested chance and average amount of every item in it, the same figures as the item pages. What to wear takes the protection of each piece off the strongest zone, the same figures as the attire pages. Tested on the current version of Rust.
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loot containersArctic Research Base: common questions
- What loot is at Arctic Research Base in Rust?
- About 80 loot containers on spawn, the most common are Loot Barrel II (20), Loot Barrel (17), Crate (8). Opening all of them once gives at least 220 scrap.
- What keycard do you need at Arctic Research Base?
- Arctic Research Base has 2 Blue keycard readers. Bring a blue keycard.
- How much radiation is at Arctic Research Base?
- Up to 10 rads per second with no protection, across 4 zones. Clothing radiation protection lowers it. The Snow Jacket (20% protection) is the lightest piece you can craft that blocks all of it.
- Does Arctic Research Base have a recycler?
- Yes, 1 green recycler.