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Santa's Supply Drop

Loot container, Christmas event

The Santa's Supply Drop can hold 42 different items.

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What the Santa's Supply Drop 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.

42 items, most likely first
Item	Chance	Amount
Medium Present	Every time	4 to 6
Small Present	Every time	4 to 10
Pistol Bullet	85.8%	15 to 93
12 Gauge Buckshot	62.5%	6 to 40
High Quality Metal	55.6%	32 to 78
Scrap	55.6%	140 to 318
5.56 Rifle Ammo	53.2%	12 to 134
12 Gauge Incendiary Shell	29.3%	4 to 21
12 Gauge Slug	29.3%	4 to 12
F1 Grenade	28.6%	6 to 9
Satchel Charge	28.6%	2
Incendiary Pistol Bullet	27.1%	10 to 30
Custom SMG	21.9%	1 to 2
Pump Shotgun	21.9%	1 to 2
Semi-Automatic Rifle	21.9%	1 to 2
Thompson	21.9%	1 to 2
Gears	16%	5 to 10
Metal Pipe	16%	5 to 10
Sheet Metal	16%	5 to 10
Tech Trash	16%	4 to 8
Chainsaw	14.3%	1
Jackhammer	14.3%	1
Timed Explosive Charge	14.3%	1
HV Pistol Ammo	14.3%	10 to 30
Snow Jacket	13.3%	1
Incendiary 5.56 Rifle Ammo	12.7%	8 to 24
Road Sign Gloves	11.1%	1
Road Sign Jacket	11.1%	1
Road Sign Kilt	11.1%	1
Bucket Helmet	10.7%	1
Coffee Can Helmet	10.7%	1
Hoodie	10.7%	1
Pants	10.7%	1
Riot Helmet	10.7%	1
M39 Rifle	9.6%	1
M92 Pistol	9.6%	1
MP5A4	9.6%	1
Prototype 17	9.6%	1
Spas-12 Shotgun	9.6%	1
Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo	6.5%	8 to 24
HV 5.56 Rifle Ammo	6.5%	10 to 30
LR-300 Assault Rifle	1.9%	1

Where to find the Santa's Supply Drop

Events and vehicles that bring it
Event	What happens
Santa's sleigh	Dropped from the sleigh during the Christmas event

How Santa's Supply Drop works in Rust

Across procedural Rust server maps, Santa's Supply Drop is a world loot prefab featuring 18 inventory slots (1,000 breakable durability) that draws from 42 possible item entries through dynamic world events, vehicle encounters, missions, or seasonal drops. 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.

Santa's Supply Drop drop odds, scrap yields and monument spawners

In addition to per-item drop probabilities, stack size bounds, and spawn durability ranges, the Santa's Supply Drop 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: 1,000 | Inventory slots: 18 | Scrap, every time: None | Items it can drop: 42 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 Santa's Supply Drop drop in Rust and how many slots does it have?

Opening Santa's Supply Drop in Rust reveals 18 inventory slots drawn from 42 possible loot items across its weighted drop table, with per-open odds, stack bounds, and durability ranges listed above.

Where does Santa's Supply Drop spawn most often in Rust?

Santa's Supply Drop (1,000 HP) appears through world events, vehicle encounters, missions, or biome loot points rather than at static monument spawners, rolling its 42-item drop table whenever players trigger the encounter.

How much guaranteed scrap do you get from Santa's Supply Drop in Rust?

Santa's Supply Drop does not grant a fixed guaranteed Scrap stack on open, supplying Scrap either as a rolled item among its 42 possible drops or by recycling the components it contains.

How much health does Santa's Supply Drop have in Rust and how do you open it?

Santa's Supply Drop carries 1,000 breakable hitpoints and must be smashed with melee weapons, tools, or projectiles before its 18 loot slots and any rolled Scrap spill onto the ground.

How is Santa's Supply Drop triggered or respawned on a Rust server?

Because Santa's Supply Drop is tied to dynamic world events, destroyed vehicles, missions, or biome spawns rather than a static monument spawner, fresh containers appear whenever that event or world cycle triggers.

How are the item drop percentages for Santa's Supply Drop calculated?

Each item percentage in the Santa's Supply Drop 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 Santa's Supply Drop spawn at full durability?

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

Every loot container