Damage
- Damage
- 35
- Slash
- DPS
- 35
- before reload
- Swings a minute
- 60
- rounds a minute
- Reach
- 1.5 m
3 hits to kill a 100 HP player, 2.00 s to kill. Chest hits, point blank, no armour.
- Throw
- 20 · 20 m/s
- Head
- 70 (highest)
- ×2, 2 hits
- Chest
- 35
- ×1, 3 hits
- Stomach
- 35
- ×1, 3 hits
- Arm
- 35
- ×1, 3 hits
- Leg
- 26.25
- ×0.75, 4 hits
Damage to buildings
| Wall grade | Per hit | Hits to break |
|---|---|---|
 Twig | 7 | 2 |
 Wood | 7 | 36 |
 Stone | 0.7 | 715 |
 Sheet Metal | 0.35 | 2,858 |
 Armored | 0.35 | 5,715 |
Hits to break a wall of each grade from the soft (inside) face. Guns count as rounds. The hard face takes more. All building blocks
Crafting
| Blueprint | What it takes | Scrap |
|---|---|---|
| Known by default: every player can craft it from the start. | ||
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.
Wearing it
Survival
Farming & fishing
Tools & durability
| Resource | Power per hit | Swings to break |
|---|---|---|
| Flesh | 10 | ~400 |
Power is the damage to the node per swing. Swings are counted from 200 condition.
What it farms
| Target | You get | Hits | Times | Tool lasts |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Animals | ||||
| 14 | 14.0 | 28 | ||
| 16 | 16.0 | 25 | ||
| 17 | 17.0 | 23 | ||
| 16 | 16.0 | 25 | ||
| 13 | 13.0 | 30 | ||
| 15 | 15.0 | 26 | ||
Each row is one full target, with the bonus the last hit adds. Gathering teas add to it. Hits assume you never hit the bonus marker. The Machete wastes part of every hit on animals, so it gets less than the full amount there and those counts are averages. Compare every tool.
The Machete also skins 9 more animals and the bodies of 26 kinds of NPC
Animals: Bull, Cow, Crocodile, Horse, Panther, Shark, Sheep, Snake, Tiger.NPCs: Arctic Scientist, Bandit Camp Guard, Cargo Ship Scientist, Dive Master, Excavator Scientist, Fisherman, Heavy Scientist, Heavy Scientist With Flamethrower, Heavy Scientist With Minigun, Hunter, Lumberjack, Military Base Scientist, Military Tunnel Scientist, Miner, Naval Scientist, Newman, NVG Scientist, Outbreak Scientist, Outpost Scientist, Patrol Scientist, PT Boat Scientist, RHIB Scientist, Stablehand, Tunnel Dweller, Underwater Dweller, Vagabond. Each page says what its body gives.
| Bench | Max repair cost | Condition loss | Blueprint needed | Repairs until destroyed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20% | No | 17 |
A half-worn item costs about half and loses half as much.
Electrical & stations
Vehicles & mounts
Details
Methodology
Tested in game: we gave the Machete to a player on our own server and used it on every animal in the table above until it was empty, three times each, and counted the hits, the wear and every item it handed out. Time is the hits times the swing time. Tested on the current version of Rust.
More Weapons
Skins
Apply with the Repair Bench. Prices are Steam Market USD.
Loading skinsMachete: common questions
- How much damage does Machete do?
- Machete deals 35 damage per swing and swings 60 times per minute.
- What does Machete cost to craft?
- Machete crafts for 100 Wood, 40 Metal Fragments.
- What does Machete recycle for?
- Recycling Machete at a powered monument recycler (60%) returns 60 Wood, 24 Metal Fragments. Safe-zone recyclers pay 40%; the Power Plant red recycler pays 75%.