Empty Tuna Can
An empty Can of Tuna. Can be smelted into Metal Fragments.
In Rust, one crafting recipe calls for Empty Tuna Can: the Tuna Can Lamp. It cannot be crafted.
About the Empty Tuna Can
Smelting Empty Tuna Can in a furnace turns each one into 10 × Metal Fragments. At an oven's base speed each one takes 30 seconds. It stacks to 10 in one inventory slot.
Turns into
Result HowAmountWhen
Metal Fragments Cooking×1030s to cook What you can craft with Empty Tuna Can
Each Tuna Can Lamp craft takes 1.
Item WorkbenchNeeds
Tuna Can Lamp None×1 Needs is how many of this item one craft takes, at the workbench the recipe asks for.
What the Empty Tuna Can recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 8 × Metal Fragments for one.
RecyclerGuaranteed outputExtra chance output
Green 50%
×8 None
Green (powered) 60%
×9 60% 
Red 75%
×12 None
Yellow 40%
×6 40% Recycled item Yellow 40%Green 50%Green (powered) 60%Red 75%
Skull Wall Lamp +40%+50%+60%+75% Tuna Can Lamp +40%+50%+60%+75% What one of each item gives at each recycler: the guaranteed count, and after the + the chance of one more.
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 12 November 2026.
