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Ration Box

Loot container

The Ration Box can hold 13 different items. The most stand at Radtown (12), Abandoned Supermarket (5) and Giant Excavator Pit (5).

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What the Ration Box drops

Chance is for one container opened or one body looted: the chance the item is inside. Amount is how many when it is there.

13 items, most likely first
Item	Chance	Amount
Anti-Radiation Pills	24.9%	1 to 2
Water Jug	24.9%	1 to 2
Apple	12.9%	1 to 2
Bread Loaf	12.9%	1 to 2
Can of Beans	12.9%	1 to 2
Can of Tuna	12.9%	1 to 2
Chocolate Bar	12.9%	1 to 2
Corn	12.9%	1 to 2
Granola Bar	12.9%	1 to 2
Honeycomb	12.9%	1 to 2
Pickles	12.9%	1 to 4
Potato	12.9%	1 to 2
Small Water Bottle	12.9%	1 to 2

Where to find the Ration Box

Counts are for a monument with every spawn point filled. A spawner that holds one kind of crate gives an exact number; a mixed one picks a crate each time it spawns, so the count is an average and the last column gives its ceiling.

Monuments, with every spawn point filled
Where	Count	Respawn
Radtown	12	30 to 37 min
Abandoned Supermarket	5	30 to 37 min
Giant Excavator Pit	5	30 to 37 min
Oxum's Gas Station	5	30 to 37 min

Places the map lays out several times, per place
Where	Each one holds	Layouts with it
Train tunnel entrances	3	all 4
Junk piles	about 0 to 0.5	9 of 10

How Ration Box works in Rust

Across procedural Rust server maps, Ration Box is a world loot prefab featuring 6 inventory slots (50 breakable durability) that draws from 13 possible item entries across 6 monument and world spawner groups. Every drop row in the reference table above is compiled directly from the game's internal loot trees at build time to reflect vanilla survival rates.

Ration Box drop odds, scrap yields and monument spawners

In addition to per-item drop probabilities, stack size bounds, and spawn durability ranges, the Ration Box sheet tracks expected container populations across every monument layout on the island. Solo players and clans can compare guaranteed Scrap and component returns per container open and plan monument routes around yellow, green, or red recyclers across the wipe.

Prefab identity summary: Health: 50 | Inventory slots: 6 | Scrap, every time: None | Items it can drop: 13 | Places: 6 across procedural server maps.
Cumulative sub-table odds: Published drop percentages combine all nested loot sub-tables into a single per-container probability for each item.
Condition and stack bounds: Equipment that can spawn damaged displays its minimum and maximum condition bar alongside item stack ranges.
Monument spawner capacity: Expected container counts represent a fully populated monument layout before players clear the compound.
Dynamic respawn scaling: Compound replenishment clocks shorten automatically on high-population realms as player count rises.

Frequently asked questions

What does Ration Box drop in Rust and how many slots does it have?

Opening Ration Box in Rust reveals 6 inventory slots drawn from 13 possible loot items across its weighted drop table, with per-open odds, stack bounds, and durability ranges listed above.

Where does Ration Box spawn most often in Rust?

Ration Box (50 HP) spawns most heavily at Radtown (12), Abandoned Supermarket (5), Giant Excavator Pit (5) on procedural maps, with expected full-monument counts and minimum-to-maximum respawn timers recorded for every spawner group across the island.

How much guaranteed scrap do you get from Ration Box in Rust?

Ration Box does not grant a fixed guaranteed Scrap stack on open, supplying Scrap either as a rolled item among its 13 possible drops or by recycling the components it contains.

How much health does Ration Box have in Rust and how do you open it?

Ration Box carries 50 breakable hitpoints and must be smashed with melee weapons, tools, or projectiles before its 6 loot slots and any rolled Scrap spill onto the ground.

How fast does Ration Box respawn at Rust monuments?

Monument spawners for Ration Box run on preset minimum and maximum respawn timers (typically 15 to 60 minutes), and those timers tick down faster whenever more active players are connected to the server.

How are the item drop percentages for Ration Box calculated?

Each item percentage in the Ration Box loot table shows the exact chance of receiving at least one stack of that item from a single open, calculated across all weighted sub-tables in the game files.

Do tools or weapons looted from Ration Box spawn at full durability?

Firearms, tools, or armor pieces in the Ration Box table that roll with partial condition show their exact durability percentage span next to their drop odds, whereas resources, Scrap, and components spawn intact.

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