Wooden Arrow
An arrow for a Hunting Bow and Crossbow.
The Wooden Arrow is an arrow in Rust, shot from 4 weapons: the Compound Bow, Hunting Bow, Crossbow and Mini Crossbow. Its damage per shot runs from 50 in the Compound Bow to 60 in the Crossbow. You can craft it without a workbench, and its blueprint costs 10 scrap to research.
About the Wooden Arrow
It flies at 50 m/s from the Compound Bow and 75 m/s from the Crossbow.
One craft makes 2, so each costs 12.5 × Wood and 5 × Stones. A full stack of 64 takes 32 crafts and 96 seconds: 800 × Wood and 320 × Stones. When a Tool Box has it, it holds 5.
Wooden Arrow damage and stats
Of the weapons that fire it, the Compound Bow gets the most damage per second out of it: 50. Where it lands changes its damage: ×1.5 to the head and ×0.75 to the legs and feet.
How to craft the Wooden Arrow
Crafting one takes 3 seconds without a workbench and costs 25 × Wood and 10 × Stones. One craft makes 2 of them.
25 
10 
How to get the Wooden Arrow blueprint
Research it for 10 scrap at a Research Table.
1 Item 
10 Scrap Blueprint 10 
Bowless Crossbow 60 16.7 1 75 
Crossbow 60 16.7 1 75 
Compound Bow 50 50 1 50 
Hunting Bow 50 50 1 50 
Legacy Bow 50 50 1 50 
Mini Crossbow 50 15.2 4 55 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 Wooden Arrow recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 6 × Wood and 2 × Stones for one.
×6 ×2 25% 50% ×7 ×3 50% 
×9 ×3 38% 75% 
×5 ×2 
Bronze Egg
Small Loot BagThe chance is for a single roll of what the item gives when opened.
Where to find the Wooden Arrow
Tool Box has the best chance at 7.4%, followed by Sunken Crate at 4.9%.
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 13 November 2026.
