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Siege Tower

A rolling siege tower, providing cover and access to enemy bases. Can be locked with your own door. Can be towed by horses.

The Siege Tower is a siege engine in Rust, placed as a frame with 500 health. The frame takes at least 10 hammer hits and 1,000 × Wood to finish. You craft it at a Level 1 Workbench, and its blueprint costs 20 scrap to research.

About the Siege Tower

Recycling it returns the Gears only by chance, 50% of the time.

On the tech tree it sits behind 9 other unlocks: High External Wooden Gate, High External Wooden Wall, Watch Tower, Wooden Floor Spikes, Barbed Wooden Barricade, Wooden Barricade and 3 more. In all, 23 loot sources drop it; the full list of where it drops gives the chance for each.

Siege Tower health and decay

Outside a tool cupboard's range it holds for 2 hours, then decays from full health to nothing in 2 hours.

500HEALTH
2hDECAY DELAY
2hDECAYS IN

How to craft the Siege Tower

Crafting one takes 15 seconds at a Level 1 Workbench and costs 500 × Wood, 250 × Metal Fragments and 1 × Gears.

Wood 500
Metal Fragments 250
Gears 1
Siege Tower
Output ×1
Workbench Level 1
Craft time
WB1 15s
WB2 −50% 7.5s
WB3 −75% 3.8s

How to get the Siege Tower blueprint

Research it for 20 scrap, or unlock it on the Level 1 tech tree for 10 Blueprint Fragments in total.

Research table Burn one copy of the item for its blueprint
Item 1 Item
+
Scrap 20 Scrap
→
Blueprint Blueprint
Research cost 20
Tech tree In the level 1 workbench tree
Node Node
+
Blueprint Fragment 1 Blueprint Fragment
→
Unlocked Unlocked
Total to reach 10

Building it up

A placed Siege Tower is a frame that has to be built up with a hammer: 10 hits, using these materials.

Hammer 10 hits
×1000

Repair when placed

A damaged Siege Tower can be repaired where it stands with a hammer. Repairing it from nothing to full costs:

Hammer Placed repair
×250 ×137.5

Stats checked against the Rust game files on 13 November 2026.