Smoke Grenade
Produces a large cloud of opaque greyish white smoke.
The Smoke Grenade is a throwable item in Rust that does no damage. It runs on a timer of 1 second from the moment it is thrown. You craft it at a Level 2 Workbench, and its blueprint costs 40 scrap to research.
About the Smoke Grenade
It leaves your hand at up to 10 m/s.
On the tech tree it sits behind 16 other unlocks: Custom SMG, Muzzle Boost, Flame Thrower, Catapult, Ballista, Battering Ram and 10 more. Only one vendor sells it: the Extra 1 for 5 scrap. In all, 23 loot sources drop it; the full list of where it drops gives the chance for each.
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How to craft the Smoke Grenade
Crafting one takes 10 seconds at a Level 2 Workbench and costs 35 × Gun Powder and 50 × Metal Fragments.
35
50 How to get the Smoke Grenade blueprint
Research it for 40 scrap, or unlock it on the Level 2 tech tree for 17 Blueprint Pages in total.
1 Item
40 Scrap
Blueprint
40
Node
1 Blueprint Page
Unlocked
17 What the Smoke Grenade recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 17 × Gun Powder and 25 × Metal Fragments for one.
×17
×25
50%
×21
×30
×26
×37
25%
50%
×14
×20 Where to find the Smoke Grenade
Treasure Box has the best chance at 1.6%, followed by Locked Crate at 1.3% and Elite Crate at 0.78%.
Shops that hand it out
Extra 1Shop×1for5 (2–10)
ScrapStats checked against the Rust game files on 12 November 2026.