Compound Bow
A very powerful bow. Can only be fully drawn while stationary. Keep still for bonus damage and speed.
The Compound Bow is a bow in Rust. Its default arrow is the Wooden Arrow. It deals 50 damage per shot at 32 shots per minute, tied for the highest damage per second of the 4 bows. You craft it at a Level 1 Workbench, and its blueprint costs 40 scrap to research.
About the Compound Bow
Loading the next shot takes 1 second, and switching to it takes 1 second. Aiming down the sights narrows its spread from 0.4° to 0.2°, 2 times tighter than firing from the hip. Mounted in an Auto Turret, it deals 70% of its normal damage.
There are 4 kinds of ammo for it: Wooden Arrow, High Velocity Arrow, Bone Arrow and Fire Arrow. With the other ammo types, its damage per second is 40 for the High Velocity Arrow and 40 for the Bone Arrow. The High Velocity Arrow flies fastest, at 80 m/s, and the Fire Arrow slowest, at 40 m/s.
From full condition it fires 240 shots with the Wooden Arrow before it breaks, not counting the wear of holding the string drawn.
On the tech tree it sits behind 5 other unlocks: Reinforced Wooden Shield, Salvaged Sword, Pickaxe, Engineering Workbench and Salvaged Hammer. In all, 24 loot sources drop it; the full list of where it drops gives the chance for each.
Compound Bow damage and stats
Loaded with the Wooden Arrow, the Compound Bow deals 50 damage per second. The Fire Arrow raises it to 60.
How to craft the Compound Bow
Crafting one takes 15 seconds at a Level 1 Workbench and costs 100 × Wood, 75 × Metal Fragments and 2 × Rope.
100 
75 
2 
How to get the Compound Bow blueprint
Research it for 40 scrap, or unlock it on the Level 1 tech tree for 6 Blueprint Fragments in total.
1 Item 
40 Scrap Blueprint 40 
Node 
1 Blueprint Fragment Unlocked 6 How to repair the Compound Bow
A full repair at a Repair Bench costs 21 × Wood, 16 × Metal Fragments and 13 × Cloth, and you need its blueprint.
×21 ×16 
×13 Compound Bow compared with other bows
Among the 4 bows it ranks 1st for damage per second, 2nd for damage per shot, 3rd for fire rate and 2nd for magazine size.
The closest to it in damage per second are the Hunting Bow, Crossbow and Mini Crossbow.
High Velocity Arrow 40 40 0.2° 80 ×1.510–100m 
Wooden Arrow 50 50 0.2° 50 ×1.510–60m 
Bone Arrow 40 40 0.2° 45 ×1.510–60m 
Fire Arrow 60 60 0.2° 40 ×1.510–60m Damage & DPS are per-shot with the listed ammo; aim cone is the spread in degrees, velocity in m/s.
What the Compound Bow recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 50 × Wood, 37 × Metal Fragments and 1 × Rope for one.
×50 ×37 ×1 50% ×60 ×45 ×1 20% 
×75 ×56 ×1 25% 50% 
×40 ×30 80% 
Bronze Egg
Small Loot BagThe chance is for a single roll of what the item gives when opened.
Where to find the Compound Bow
Sunken Chest has the best chance at 1.1%, followed by Scarecrow at 0.49% and Brown Crate at 0.44%.
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 9 November 2026.
