Sickle
A very sharp curved cutting weapon. While its traditional role was to cut grass, this tool is also extremely versatile at cutting throats, perhaps trees, too.
The Sickle is a melee tool in Rust for chopping trees. It deals 30 slash damage per hit and swings once every 0.9 seconds, 33.3 damage per second. You can craft it without a workbench.
About the Sickle
It can be thrown as well as swung. Every hit on a tree costs it 0.33 condition, so from full condition it chops for 1,213 hits. On an animal corpse it takes 12 health per hit and loses 1 condition each time.
Sickle damage and stats
Its gather rate on trees is 40 health per hit, 44.4 per second of steady chopping. Of the 8 tools that chop trees, it ranks 2nd for gather rate.
How to craft the Sickle
Crafting one takes 15 seconds without a workbench and costs 200 × Metal Fragments.
200 
How to repair the Sickle
A full repair at a Repair Bench costs 41 × Metal Fragments, and no blueprint is needed.
×41 Per hit is how much of the node one swing takes; wasted is the share destroyed rather than collected, which is why two tools at the same damage do not yield the same. Wear is the condition the tool loses per hit.
What the Sickle recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 100 × Metal Fragments for one.
×100 ×120 
×150 
×80 Where to find the Sickle
Scarecrow drops it, at 29%.
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 9 November 2026.
