Jackhammer
A Pneumatic Jackhammer to blast through ore nodes. The sheer power of this device requires no aiming as all weak spots will be instantly destroyed. Works well on human flesh. Can be refilled at a Workbench.
The Jackhammer is a melee tool in Rust for mining ore. It deals 15 stab damage per hit and swings once every 0.15 seconds, 100 damage per second. It cannot be crafted, and Supply Drop drops it most often, at 27%.
About the Jackhammer
It reaches 2 m. Every hit on an ore node costs it 0.2 condition, so from full condition it mines for 1,500 hits. On an animal corpse it takes 5 health per hit and loses 0.5 condition each time.
It is for sale at 3 vendors: Tools & Stuff for 150 scrap, Travelling Vendor for 80 to 120 scrap and Water Well Shop Keeper for 150 to 200 scrap. In all, 11 loot sources drop it; the full list of where it drops gives the chance for each.
Jackhammer damage and stats
Its gather rate on ore nodes is 25 health per hit, 166.7 per second of steady mining. Of the 7 tools that mine ore, it ranks 1st for gather rate.
How to repair the Jackhammer
It cannot be repaired.
Per hit is how much of the node one swing takes; wasted is the share destroyed rather than collected, which is why two tools at the same damage do not yield the same. Wear is the condition the tool loses per hit.
What the Jackhammer recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 30 × Scrap and 2 × Metal Blade for one.
×30 
×2 
50% 50% ×36 ×3 60% 
×45 ×3 75% 75% 
×24 ×2 40% 
Silver Egg
Medium Loot BagThe chance is for a single roll of what the item gives when opened.
Where to find the Jackhammer
Supply Drop has the best chance at 27%, followed by Present Drop at 14% and Locked Crate at 4.3%.
Metal Detector — 0.5% ×1 Shops that hand it out
Tools & StuffShop×1for150 (75–300)Scrap
Travelling VendorShop×1for80–120Scrap
Water Well Shop KeeperShop×1for150–200Scrap
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 12 November 2026.
