Piercer Bolt
A piercing bolt for a ballista, capable of penetrating armored vehicles.
The Piercer Bolt is ammunition in Rust. You craft it at a Level 2 Workbench, and its blueprint costs 40 scrap to research.
About the Piercer Bolt
A full stack of 3 takes 3 crafts and 15 seconds: 15 × High Quality Metal and 225 × Metal Fragments.
On the tech tree it sits behind 12 other unlocks: Ballista, Battering Ram, Python Revolver, F1 Grenade, Semi-Automatic Pistol, Homemade Landmine and 6 more.
How to craft the Piercer Bolt
Crafting one takes 5 seconds at a Level 2 Workbench and costs 5 × High Quality Metal and 75 × Metal Fragments.
5 
75 
How to get the Piercer Bolt blueprint
Research it for 40 scrap, or unlock it on the Level 2 tech tree for 13 Blueprint Pages in total.
1 Item 
40 Scrap Blueprint 40 
Node 
1 Blueprint Page Unlocked 13 What the Piercer Bolt recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 2 × High Quality Metal and 37 × Metal Fragments for one.
×2 ×37 50% 50% ×3 ×45 
×3 ×56 75% 25% 
×2 ×30 Stats checked against the Rust game files on 12 November 2026.
