Longsword
A powerful 2-handed melee weapon with good range and high damage.
The Longsword is a melee weapon in Rust. It deals 75 slash damage per hit and swings once every 2 seconds, 37.5 damage per second. You craft it at a Level 2 Workbench, and its blueprint costs 40 scrap to research.
About the Longsword
It can be thrown as well as swung. On an animal corpse it takes 10 health per hit and loses 0.5 condition each time.
In all, 24 loot sources drop it; the full list of where it drops gives the chance for each.
Longsword damage and stats
Among the 16 melee weapons it ranks 1st for damage per hit and 3rd for damage per second.
How to craft the Longsword
Crafting one takes 25 seconds at a Level 2 Workbench and costs 2 × Metal Blade and 100 × Metal Fragments.
2 
100 
How to get the Longsword blueprint
Research it for 40 scrap, or unlock it on the Level 2 tech tree for 1 Blueprint Page in total.
1 Item 
40 Scrap Blueprint 40 
Node 
1 Blueprint Page Unlocked 1 How to repair the Longsword
A full repair at a Repair Bench costs 33 × Metal Fragments, and you need its blueprint.
×33 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 Longsword recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 1 × Metal Blade and 50 × Metal Fragments for one.
×1 ×50 ×1 ×60 20% 
×1 ×75 50% 
×40 80% Where to find the Longsword
Metal Detector has the best chance at 2.7%, followed by Treasure Box at 1.6% and Locked Crate at 1.3%.
Metal Detector — 2.7% ×1 
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 12 November 2026.
