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.
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.
500
250
1 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.
1 Item
20 Scrap
Blueprint
20
Node
1 Blueprint Fragment
Unlocked
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.
×1000 Repair when placed
A damaged Siege Tower can be repaired where it stands with a hammer. Repairing it from nothing to full costs:
×250
×137.5 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 Siege Tower recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 250 × Wood and 125 × Metal Fragments for one.
×250
×125
50%
×300
×150
60%
×375
×187
50%
75%
×200
×100
40%
High Velocity Rocket ×2258—
400
600
40
4
Homing Missile ×2383—
200
300
40
4
1
Timed Explosive Charge ×2330—
4,400
6,000
4
400
120
10
Rocket ×3168.8—
4,200
5,850
120
12
300
90
Satchel Charge ×86320%
3,840
5,760
640
80
8
40mm HE Grenade ×2223.8——
Beancan Grenade ×3813.515%
4,560
6,840
760
Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo ×4611—
1,150
1,380
230
Survey Charge ×935.4—
5,580
8,370
930
1,860
465 From full health (500 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.
Where to find the Siege Tower
Sunken Chest has the best chance at 1.1%, followed by Scarecrow at 0.49% and Brown Crate at 0.44%.
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 13 November 2026.