Machete
A brutal weapon with good range.
The Machete is a melee weapon in Rust. It deals 35 slash damage per hit and swings once every 1 second, 35 damage per second. You can craft it without a workbench, and its blueprint costs 10 scrap to research.
About the Machete
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.
Machete damage and stats
Among the 16 melee weapons it ranks 7th for damage per hit and 4th for damage per second.
How to craft the Machete
Crafting one takes 15 seconds without a workbench and costs 100 × Wood and 40 × Metal Fragments.
100 
40 
How to get the Machete blueprint
Research it for 10 scrap at a Research Table.
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10 Scrap Blueprint 10 How to repair the Machete
A full repair at a Repair Bench costs 21 × Wood and 9 × Metal Fragments, and you need its blueprint.
×21 ×9 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 Machete recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 50 × Wood and 20 × Metal Fragments for one.
×50 ×20 ×60 ×24 
×75 ×30 
×40 ×16 Stats checked against the Rust game files on 13 November 2026.
