Paddle
A versatile melee weapon that can also be used to paddle a kayak.
The Paddle is a melee weapon in Rust. It deals 30 blunt damage per hit and swings once every 1.25 seconds, 24 damage per second. You can craft it without a workbench, and its blueprint costs 20 scrap to research.
About the Paddle
It reaches 2.75 m and can be thrown as well as swung.
On the tech tree it sits behind one other unlock, the Salvaged Hammer. Only one vendor sells it: the Fishing Village Boat Vendor for 25 scrap. In all, 13 loot sources drop it; the full list of where it drops gives the chance for each.
Paddle damage and stats
Among the 16 melee weapons it ranks 10th for damage per hit and 11th for damage per second.
How to craft the Paddle
Crafting one takes 15 seconds without a workbench and costs 15 × Metal Fragments, 1 × Metal Blade and 200 × Wood.
15 
1 
200 
How to get the Paddle blueprint
Research it for 20 scrap, or unlock it on the Level 1 tech tree for 2 Blueprint Fragments in total.
1 Item 
20 Scrap Blueprint 20 
Node 
1 Blueprint Fragment Unlocked 2 How to repair the Paddle
A full repair at a Repair Bench costs 10 × Metal Fragments and 41 × Wood, and you need its blueprint.
×10 ×41 What the Paddle recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 7 × Metal Fragments and 100 × Wood for one.
×7 ×100 50% 50% ×9 ×120 60% 
×11 ×150 25% 75% 
×6 ×80 40% Where to find the Paddle
Primitive Crate has the best chance at 4.8%, followed by Gingerbread Man at 3.4% and Scarecrow at 3.4%.
Shops that hand it out
Fishing Village Boat VendorShop×1for25 (12–50)ScrapStats checked against the Rust game files on 13 November 2026.
