Battering Ram
A reinforced siege weapon built for smashing through wooden and stone constructions with brute force. Must be repaired with high quality metal to keep functioning.
The Battering Ram is a siege engine in Rust, placed as a frame with 500 health. The frame takes at least 10 hammer hits and 1,000 × Wood and 500 × Metal Fragments to finish. You craft it at a Level 2 Workbench, and its blueprint costs 40 scrap to research.
About the Battering Ram
Recycling it returns the Tarp only by chance, 50% of the time.
On the tech tree it sits behind 10 other unlocks: Python Revolver, F1 Grenade, Semi-Automatic Pistol, Homemade Landmine, Pump Shotgun, 12 Gauge Buckshot and 4 more. In all, 23 loot sources drop it; the full list of where it drops gives the chance for each.
Battering Ram health and decay
Outside a tool cupboard's range it holds for 2 hours, then decays from full health to nothing in 2 hours.
How to craft the Battering Ram
Crafting one takes 25 seconds at a Level 2 Workbench and costs 500 × Wood, 2 × Sheet Metal, 1 × Tarp and 100 × High Quality Metal.
500 
2 
1 
100 
How to get the Battering Ram blueprint
Research it for 40 scrap, or unlock it on the Level 2 tech tree for 11 Blueprint Pages in total.
1 Item 
40 Scrap Blueprint 40 
Node 
1 Blueprint Page Unlocked 11 Building it up
A placed Battering Ram is a frame that has to be built up with a hammer: 10 hits, using these materials.
×1000 
×500 Reduction is how much of that damage type never lands. Damage taken is the rest: at 50% reduction a hit for 100 does 50. A negative reduction means the hit lands harder than it would bare.
What the Battering Ram recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 250 × Wood, 1 × Sheet Metal and 50 × High Quality Metal for one.
×250 ×1 ×50 50% ×300 ×1 ×60 20% 60% 
×375 ×1 ×75 50% 75% 
×200 ×40 80% 40% 
High Velocity Rocket ×2258— 
400 
600 40 4 
Homing Missile ×2383— 200 300 40 4 
1 
Timed Explosive Charge ×2330— 4,400 6,000 4 400 
120 
10 
Rocket ×3168.8— 4,200 5,850 120 12 300 90 
Satchel Charge ×86320% 3,840 5,760 640 80 
8 
40mm HE Grenade ×2223.8—— 
Beancan Grenade ×3813.515% 4,560 6,840 760 
Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo ×4611— 1,150 1,380 230 
Survey Charge ×935.4— 5,580 8,370 930 1,860 465 From full health (500 HP), each one placed on it: damage per hit is after its protection. Duds are throws that fizzle and need another throw, not counted in Needed. Costs are for the whole count, crafted from raw materials.
Where to find the Battering Ram
Treasure Box has the best chance at 1.6%, followed by Locked Crate at 1.3% and Elite Crate at 0.78%.
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 12 November 2026.
