Flame Turret
Automated Flame turret. Requires Low Grade Fuel. Sprays flames when triggered.
The Flame Turret is a trap in Rust with 300 health. It burns Low Grade Fuel from its own storage. You craft it at a Level 1 Workbench, and its blueprint costs 40 scrap to research.
About the Flame Turret
Recycling it returns the Gears only by chance, 50% of the time.
On the tech tree it sits behind 14 other unlocks: Fire Arrow, Revolver, Pistol Bullet, Flare, Waterpipe Shotgun, Salvaged Cleaver and 8 more. Only one vendor sells it: the Weapons for 250 scrap. In all, 24 loot sources drop it; the full list of where it drops gives the chance for each.
How to raid the Flame Turret
Its cheapest raid is 1 × Homing Missile, 100 sulfur in all. Each of these also brings it down from full health: 1 × Timed Explosive Charge, 2 × Rocket and 2 × Satchel Charge.
How to craft the Flame Turret
Crafting one takes 15 seconds at a Level 1 Workbench and costs 200 × Metal Fragments, 2 × Empty Propane Tank and 1 × Gears.
200
2
1 How to get the Flame Turret blueprint
Research it for 40 scrap, or unlock it on the Level 1 tech tree for 15 Blueprint Fragments in total.
1 Item
40 Scrap
Blueprint
40
Node
1 Blueprint Fragment
Unlocked
15 Allowed items
Low Grade Fuel Repair when placed
A damaged Flame Turret can be repaired where it stands with a hammer. Repairing it from nothing to full costs:
×162.5 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 Flame Turret recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 100 × Metal Fragments and 1 × Empty Propane Tank for one.
×100
×1
50%
×120
×1
20%
60%
×150
×1
50%
75%
×80
80%
40%
High Velocity Rocket ×1345—
200
300
20
2
Homing Missile ×1512—
100
150
45
3
Timed Explosive Charge ×1550—
2,200
3,000
100
4
200
60
5
Rocket ×2282.5—
2,800
3,900
80
8
200
60
Satchel Charge ×219520%
960
1,440
160
80
Beancan Grenade ×74515%
840
1,260
140
40mm HE Grenade ×840.5—
680
960
80
8
40
12
Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo ×2413—
600
720
120
Survey Charge ×339.2—
1,980
2,970
330
660
165 From full health (300 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.
Large Present 13.3%×1 The chance is for a single roll of what the item gives when opened.
Where to find the Flame Turret
Sunken Chest has the best chance at 1.1%, followed by Scarecrow at 0.49% and Brown Crate at 0.44%.
Shops that hand it out
WeaponsShop×1for250 (125–500)
ScrapStats checked against the Rust game files on 9 November 2026.