Small Candle Set
Small Candles
The Small Candle Set is a light in Rust with 50 health. You can craft it without a workbench.
Small Candle Set health and decay
Outside a tool cupboard's range it holds for 2 days, then decays from full health to nothing in 4 days.
How to craft the Small Candle Set
Crafting one takes 15 seconds without a workbench and costs 10 × Animal Fat and 5 × Cloth.
10
5 Repair when placed
A damaged Small Candle Set can be repaired where it stands with a hammer. Repairing it from nothing to full costs:
×5
×2 How to repair the Small Candle Set
A full repair at a Repair Bench costs 3 × Animal Fat and 2 × Cloth, and no blueprint is needed.
×3
×2 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 Small Candle Set recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 5 × Animal Fat and 2 × Cloth for one.
×5
×2
50%
×6
×3
×7
×3
50%
75%
×4
×2
Rocket ×1275—
1,400
1,950
100
40
30
4
Satchel Charge ×19520%
480
720
80
40
Timed Explosive Charge ×1550—
2,200
3,000
200
100
60
4
5
40mm HE Grenade ×235—
170
240
10
20
3
2
High Velocity Rocket ×245—
400
600
40
4
Beancan Grenade ×32015%
360
540
60
Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo ×413—
100
120
20
Homing Missile ×512—
500
750
225
15
Survey Charge ×78—
420
630
70
140
35 From full health (50 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.
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 9 November 2026.