Research Table
You can use this table to learn how to permanently craft items you have found in exchange for scrap.
The Research Table is a research station in Rust with 200 health. You craft it at a Level 1 Workbench.
About the Research Table
You can use one without building it at Airfield, Apartment Complex, Bandit Camp, Ferry Terminal and 4 more.
Outside a tool cupboard's range it holds for 5 hours, then decays from full health to nothing in 8 hours.
How to raid the Research Table
Its cheapest raid is 1 × Homing Missile, 100 sulfur in all. Each of these also brings it down from full health: 1 × Timed Explosive Charge, 1 × Rocket and 1 × Satchel Charge.
How to craft the Research Table
Crafting one takes 15 seconds at a Level 1 Workbench and costs 200 × Metal Fragments and 20 × Scrap.
200 
20 
Found at monuments
Repair when placed
A damaged Research Table can be repaired where it stands with a hammer. Repairing it from nothing to full costs:
×100 ×10 Reduction is how much of that damage type never lands. Damage taken is the rest: at 50% reduction a hit for 100 does 50. A negative reduction means the hit lands harder than it would bare.
What the Research Table recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 100 × Metal Fragments for one.
×100 ×120 
×150 
×80 
Homing Missile ×1262— 
100 
150 20 
2 
1 
Rocket ×1312.5— 1,400 1,950 40 4 100 
30 
Satchel Charge ×127520% 480 720 80 
10 
1 
Timed Explosive Charge ×1550— 2,200 3,000 2 200 60 5 
High Velocity Rocket ×2195— 400 600 40 4 
40mm HE Grenade ×462.5—— 
Beancan Grenade ×46515% 480 720 80 
Survey Charge ×1514— 900 1,350 150 300 75 
Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo ×1613— 400 480 80 From full health (200 HP), each one placed on it: damage per hit is after its protection. Duds are throws that fizzle and need another throw, not counted in Needed. Costs are for the whole count, crafted from raw materials.
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 13 November 2026.
