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.
30
10 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.
1 Item
40 Scrap
Blueprint
40
Node
1 Blueprint Page
Unlocked
1 What you can craft with Metal Blade
By workbench, 1 needs none, 2 need a Level 1 and 7 need a Level 2.
Needs is how many of this item one craft takes, at the workbench the recipe asks for.
What the Metal Blade recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 2 × Scrap and 15 × Metal Fragments for one.
×2
×15
×2
×18
40%
×3
×22
50%
×1
×12
60% What to recycle for Metal Blade
A green recycler gives back the most from the Chainsaw (3), Krieg chainsword (3), Jackhammer (2) and 5 more. It comes back from 2 more items only by chance.
Chainsaw ×2 +40%×3×3 +60%×4 +50%
Jackhammer ×2×2 +50%×3×3 +75%
Krieg chainsword ×2 +40%×3×3 +60%×4 +50%
Longsword +80%×1×1 +20%×1 +50%
Metal Barricade +80%×1×1 +20%×1 +50%
Paddle +40%+50%+60%+75%
Salvaged Axe ×2×2 +50%×3×3 +75%
Salvaged Icepick ×2×2 +50%×3×3 +75%
Salvaged Sword +40%+50%+60%+75%
Shears +80%×1×1 +20%×1 +50% What one of each item gives at each recycler: the guaranteed count, and after the + the chance of one more.
Where to find the Metal Blade
Sunken Chest has the best chance at 63%, followed by Gingerbread Man at 40% and Scarecrow at 40%.
Metal Detector — 1.8% ×1 Shops that hand it out
ComponentsShop×1for15 (8–30)
ScrapStats checked against the Rust game files on 9 November 2026.