Handcuffs
You're under arrest! Use on a surrendering or wounded player to keep them restrained. The wearer is blocked from using or holding items and can be pushed around.
The Handcuffs is a tool in Rust. You craft it at a Level 2 Workbench, and its blueprint costs 40 scrap to research.
About the Handcuffs
You swing it like a melee tool, once every 1.3 seconds, but it deals no damage.
On the tech tree it sits behind 5 other unlocks: Prison Cell Wall, Prison Cell Gate, Salvaged Icepick, Salvaged Axe and Longsword. In all, 23 loot sources drop it; the full list of where it drops gives the chance for each.
Statistics
How to craft the Handcuffs
Crafting one takes 15 seconds at a Level 2 Workbench and costs 70 × Metal Fragments.
70 
How to get the Handcuffs blueprint
Research it for 40 scrap, or unlock it on the Level 2 tech tree for 6 Blueprint Pages in total.
1 Item 
40 Scrap Blueprint 40 
Node 
1 Blueprint Page Unlocked 6 How to repair the Handcuffs
A full repair at a Repair Bench costs 15 × Metal Fragments, and you need its blueprint.
×15 What the Handcuffs recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 35 × Metal Fragments for one.
×35 ×42 
×52 50% 
×28 Where to find the Handcuffs
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.
