Hot Air Balloon
A Hot Air Balloon.
The Hot Air Balloon is an item in Rust's Misc category. You can craft it without a workbench.
How to craft the Hot Air Balloon
Crafting one takes 15 seconds without a workbench and costs 200 × Cloth.
200 
Workbench Not required
Craft time
NO WB 15s
WB1 −50% 7.5s
WB2 −75% 3.8s
WB3 −75% 3.8s
What the Hot Air Balloon recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 100 × Cloth for one.
RecyclerGuaranteed outputExtra chance output
Green 50%
×100 None
Green (powered) 60%
×120 None
Red 75%
×150 None
Yellow 40%
×80 None
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 9 November 2026.
