How much sulfur do you get per node in Rust?

300 Sulfur Ore per sulfur node with a Pickaxe or better (200 from the hits and 100 with the last hit). A Stone Pickaxe wastes part of each hit and gets less. Creamy Pure Ore Tea raises it by 50%. A loose sulfur rock you pick up with E gives 50.

How much metal ore and HQM does a node give in Rust?

A metal node gives 600 Metal Ore and 2 High Quality Metal Ore. An HQM node gives 20 High Quality Metal Ore plus 400 Metal Ore.

How many hits does it take to mine a node in Rust?

Every node has 500 HP. A Pickaxe takes 17 hits (25.5s) on a stone node; a Jackhammer clears it in 15 hits (2.2s), because it counts every swing as a bonus hit. Hitting the hot-spot in a row adds 50% damage per hit, up to 3×, so real times are lower.

How much does the Giant Excavator produce in Rust?

Per diesel (2 minutes of digging), up to 100 High Quality Metal Ore, 2,000 Sulfur Ore, 10,000 Stones, 5,000 Metal Fragments. You pick one resource at a time.

Rust Ore Nodes & Trees

How much each ore node and tree gives, and how many hits each tool needs. A Chainsaw or Pickaxe gets the full amount; a Hatchet, Stone Pickaxe or Rock wastes part of it.

What an ore node gives

Node	Gives	With the last hit
Stone Node	×1,000	×250
Metal Node	×600 ×2	×100 ×2
Sulfur Node	×300	×100
HQM Node	×20 ×400	×8
Loose rocksPick them up with E, no tool
Scattered Metal Rock	×50	-
Scattered Stone Rock	×50	-
Scattered Sulfur Rock	×50	-

Every node has 500 HP. The last hit adds a bonus on top of the hits.

Time to mine a node

Tool	Stone Node		Metal Node		Sulfur Node		HQM Node
Tool	Hits	Seconds	Hits	Seconds	Hits	Seconds	Hits	Seconds
Jackhammer	15	2.2	15	2.2	15	2.2	15	2.2
Salvaged Icepick	10	12.5	10	12.5	10	12.5	11	13.8
Salvaged Hammer	19	19.0	19	19.0	20	20.0	22	22.0
Stone Pickaxe	26	23.4	26	23.4	30	27.0	28	25.2
Pickaxe	17	25.5	17	25.5	17	25.5	17	25.5
Bone Club	76	53.3	73	51.2	68	47.7	85	59.6
Rock	48	63.2	50	65.8	50	65.8	52	68.4
Candy Cane Club	76	76.0	73	73.0	68	68.0	85	85.0

One full node of each type, fastest on a stone node first. Each hot-spot hit in a row adds 50% damage, up to 3×, so real times are lower. Tea adds Basic +20%, Advanced +30%, Pure +40%, Milky +40%, Creamy +50%. All teas

What a tree gives

Wood	Trees	HP	Chainsaw		Salvaged Axe
Wood	Trees	HP	Hits	Seconds	Hits	Seconds
1,000	Dead Tree, Hura crepitans, Hura crepitans Sapling, Large Beech Tree, Large Fir Tree, Mauritia flexuosa, Mauritia flexuosa Sapling, Schizolobium, Schizolobium Sapling, Swamp Tree, Trumpet Tree	1000	21	4.2	20	25.0
900	Large Palm Tree, Tall Tropical Palm	850	19	3.8	18	22.5
750	Birch Tree	1000	21	4.2	20	25.0
750	Birch Tree, Large Oak Tree, Large Pine Tree, Medium Beech Tree, Medium Palm Tree, Medium Tropical Palm	750	16	3.2	15	18.8
750	Tree with vines	700	15	3.0	14	17.5
750	Birch Tree	600	13	2.6	13	16.3
600	Small Palm Tree, Small Tropical Palm	650	14	2.8	14	17.5
600	Trumpet Tree Sapling	200	5	1.0	4	5.0
550	Short Palm Tree, Short Tropical Palm	550	12 to 19	2.4 to 3.8	11	13.8
550	Small Trumpet Tree Sapling	100	3	0.6	2	2.5
500	Small Beech Tree, Small Oak Tree, Small Pine Tree	500	11	2.2	10	12.5
500	Small Fir Tree	500	11 to 17	2.2 to 3.4	10	12.5
200	Medium Pine Sapling	200	5 to 7	1.0 to 1.4	4	5.0
100	Small Pine Sapling	100	3 to 4	0.6 to 0.8	2	2.5

Wood is the total for a tool that wastes none of a hit: the hits give part and the last hit adds a bonus of wood on top. A tree whose sizes differ, such as the birch, is on one row for each size. Tea adds Basic +50%, Advanced +100%, Pure +150%, Milky +150%, Creamy +200%. All teas

Cut like trees

Gives	Source
×15×3	Large Cactus
×400	Large pile of Driftwood
×250	Log
×10×2	Medium Cactus
×300	Medium pile of Driftwood
×5×1	Small Cactus
×250	Small pile of Driftwood
×1,000	Woodpile

Driftwood, logs, the wood pile and cacti: cut with the same tools, and not trees.

Monument blockers

10 kinds of blocker close doors and vents at monuments. Mine one with a Pickaxe for its metal, or blow it up with the cheapest explosive you can craft: 4 F1 Grenades (240 sulfur) for the Barrels, Barrels Long and Trolley; 70 Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo (1,750 sulfur) for the Barricades, Blast Door, Desks, Lockers and Terminals; 71 Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo (1,800 sulfur) for the Collapse; 5 Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo (150 sulfur) for the Vent Cage. Monument blockers lists every explosive, what each blocker gives and the door it blocks.

Giant Excavator output

Resource	Up to, per diesel
High Quality Metal Ore	100
Sulfur Ore	2,000
Stones	10,000
Metal Fragments	5,000

Pick one resource at the controls and feed it Diesel Fuel. One diesel runs it for 2 minutes, with output every 1s. It stands at the Giant Excavator Pit, where Scientists guard it.

Methodology

The times count the hits each tool needs on one full node or tree, times its swing time. The Jackhammer counts every swing as a bonus hit. The Stone Pickaxe and Rock waste part of each hit, so they empty a node in fewer hits and get less ore; each hit takes a share of every pile, so the count changes a little from node to node.

Each marker hit in a row adds 12.5% damage on a tree, up to 2×, so real counts are lower. The Chainsaw counts every swing as a bonus hit on a tree that has the marker; a range means the marker is on some trees of that size only. Both tools get all the wood. A Hatchet, Stone Hatchet or Rock wastes part of each hit, so it gets less. A Tree with vines leaves a Stump when it falls, and the tree grows back on it.

Tree health tested in game: we spawned every tree type in every biome on our own server and read its health and wood. Tested on the current version of Rust.

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Rust ore nodes: common questions

How much sulfur do you get per node in Rust?: 300 Sulfur Ore per sulfur node with a Pickaxe or better (200 from the hits and 100 with the last hit). A Stone Pickaxe wastes part of each hit and gets less. Creamy Pure Ore Tea raises it by 50%. A loose sulfur rock you pick up with E gives 50.
How much metal ore and HQM does a node give in Rust?: A metal node gives 600 Metal Ore and 2 High Quality Metal Ore. An HQM node gives 20 High Quality Metal Ore plus 400 Metal Ore.
How many hits does it take to mine a node in Rust?: Every node has 500 HP. A Pickaxe takes 17 hits (25.5s) on a stone node; a Jackhammer clears it in 15 hits (2.2s), because it counts every swing as a bonus hit. Hitting the hot-spot in a row adds 50% damage per hit, up to 3×, so real times are lower.
How much does the Giant Excavator produce in Rust?: Per diesel (2 minutes of digging), up to 100 High Quality Metal Ore, 2,000 Sulfur Ore, 10,000 Stones, 5,000 Metal Fragments. You pick one resource at a time.