Road Signs
Some road signs made of metal.
In Rust, 6 crafting recipes call for Road Signs, and the Roadsign Horse Armor (4) and Road Sign Jacket (2) take the most per craft. Recycling one in a green recycler is worth 5 scrap, which ranks joint 19th of the 24 items that recycle into scrap. You craft it at a Level 3 Workbench, and its blueprint costs 40 scrap to research.
About the Road Signs
Metal Detector gives the biggest single find, 4 to 5 at a time. It stacks to 20 in one inventory slot.
In all, 40 loot sources drop it; the full list of where it drops gives the chance for each.
How to craft the Road Signs
Crafting one takes 1 second at a Level 3 Workbench and costs 2 × High Quality Metal and 20 × Scrap.
2 
20 
Level 3 How to get the Road Signs blueprint
Research it for 40 scrap, or unlock it on the Level 3 tech tree for 1 Blueprint Book in total.
1 Item 40 Scrap Blueprint 40 
Node 
1 Blueprint Book Unlocked 1 What you can craft with Road Signs
By workbench, 2 need a Level 1 and 4 need a Level 2.
Needs is how many of this item one craft takes, at the workbench the recipe asks for.
What the Road Signs recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 5 × Scrap and 1 × High Quality Metal for one.
×5 ×1 ×6 ×1 20% 
×7 ×1 50% 50% 
×4 80% What to recycle for Road Signs
A green recycler gives back the most from the Double Horse Saddle (2), Lunar New Year Horse Armor (2), Roadsign Horse Armor (2) and 3 more. It comes back from 5 more items only by chance.
Double Horse Saddle ×2×2 +50%×3×3 +75% 
Knights armour cuirass +80%×1×1 +20%×1 +50% 
Knights armour skirt plates +40%+50%+60%+75% 
Lunar New Year Horse Armor ×1 +60%×2×2 +40%×3 
Reinforced Wooden Shield +40%+50%+60%+75% 
Road Sign Gloves +40%+50%+60%+75% 
Road Sign Jacket +80%×1×1 +20%×1 +50% 
Road Sign Kilt +40%+50%+60%+75% 
Roadsign Horse Armor ×1 +60%×2×2 +40%×3 
Salvaged Cleaver +40%+50%+60%+75% 
Single Horse Saddle ×1 +60%×2×2 +40%×3 What one of each item gives at each recycler: the guaranteed count, and after the + the chance of one more.
Where to find the Road Signs
Road Sign has the best chance at 100%, followed by Component Crate at 27% and Scarecrow at 17%.
Metal Detector — 9% ×4–5 
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 13 November 2026.
