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Metal Blade

A Metal Blade for making melee weapons.

In Rust, 10 crafting recipes call for Metal Blade, and the Chainsaw (6), Krieg chainsword (6) and Jackhammer (5) take the most per craft. Recycling one in a green recycler is worth 2 scrap, which ranks joint 22nd of the 24 items that recycle into scrap. You craft it at a Level 2 Workbench, and its blueprint costs 40 scrap to research.

About the Metal Blade

It stacks to 20 in one inventory slot.

Only one vendor sells it: the Components for 15 scrap. In all, 15 loot sources drop it; the full list of where it drops gives the chance for each.

How to craft the Metal Blade

Crafting one takes 1 second at a Level 2 Workbench and costs 30 × Metal Fragments and 10 × Scrap.

Metal Fragments 30
Scrap 10
Metal Blade
Output ×1
Workbench Level 2
Craft time
WB2 1s
WB3 −50% 0.5s

How to get the Metal Blade blueprint

Research it for 40 scrap, or unlock it on the Level 2 tech tree for 1 Blueprint Page in total.

Research table Burn one copy of the item for its blueprint
Item 1 Item
+
Scrap 40 Scrap
→
Blueprint Blueprint
Research cost 40
Tech tree In the level 2 workbench tree
Node Node
+
Blueprint Page 1 Blueprint Page
→
Unlocked Unlocked
Total to reach 1

Stats checked against the Rust game files on 9 November 2026.