Wood Dart
A basic damage dart.
The Wood Dart is ammunition in Rust for one weapon, the Blow Pipe. In the Blow Pipe it deals 50 damage per shot, 17 damage per second. You craft it at a Level 1 Workbench, and its blueprint costs 40 scrap to research.
About the Wood Dart
It flies at 75 m/s from the Blow Pipe.
One craft makes 2, so each costs 12.5 × Wood. A full stack of 64 takes 32 crafts and 96 seconds: 800 × Wood. When a Primitive Jungle Crate has it, it holds 10 to 12. Recycling it in a green recycler returns 24% of its crafting cost.
Wood Dart damage and stats
Where it lands changes its damage: ×1.5 to the head and ×0.75 to the legs and feet.
How to craft the Wood Dart
Crafting one takes 3 seconds at a Level 1 Workbench and costs 25 × Wood. One craft makes 2 of them.
25 
How to get the Wood Dart blueprint
Research it for 40 scrap, or unlock it on the Level 1 tech tree for 1 Blueprint Fragment in total.
1 Item 
40 Scrap Blueprint 40 
Node 
1 Blueprint Fragment Unlocked 1 
Blow Pipe 50 16.7 1 75 Damage is per shot and already carries each weapon’s own scale, so the same round is not the same number in every barrel. DPS assumes the weapon fires without stopping.
What the Wood Dart recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 6 × Wood for one.
×6 25% ×7 50% 
×9 38% 
×5 Where to find the Wood Dart
Primitive Jungle Crate drops it, at 33%.
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 13 November 2026.
