Shovel
A shovel for digging up stuff
The Shovel is a handheld item in Rust that also works as a melee weapon. It deals 5 blunt damage per hit and swings once every 0.5 seconds, 10 damage per second. It cannot be crafted.
About the Shovel
It can be thrown as well as swung.
Shovel damage and stats
5DAMAGE
2/sATTACK SPEED
1.5mRANGE
1sDRAW TIME
YesTHROWABLE
100CONDITION
How to repair the Shovel
A full repair at a Repair Bench costs 6 × Metal Fragments, and no blueprint is needed.
Repair bench No blueprint needed
×6 What the Shovel recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 12 × Metal Fragments for one.
RecyclerGuaranteed outputExtra chance output
Green 50%
×12 50% Green (powered) 60%
×15 None
Red 75%
×18 75% 
Yellow 40%
×10 None
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 12 November 2026.
