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Sunken Chest

Loot container

The Sunken Chest can hold 105 different items and always gives 10 Scrap.

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What the Sunken Chest 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. Condition is the state a tool or weapon comes out in.

105 items, most likely first
Item	Chance	Amount	Condition
Scrap	Every time	10	100%
Metal Blade	62.8%	1 to 3	100%
Rope	62.8%	1 to 6	100%
Empty Propane Tank	37.7%	1 to 3	100%
Sewing Kit	37.7%	3 to 12	100%
Tarp	37.7%	1 to 3	100%
High Quality Metal	25%	15 to 24	100%
Electric Fuse	14.3%	1	100%
Gears	14.3%	2	100%
Metal Pipe	14.3%	1 to 4	100%
Metal Spring	14.3%	1	100%
Road Signs	14.3%	2 to 3	100%
Semi Automatic Body	14.3%	1	100%
Sheet Metal	14.3%	1	100%
Basic Blueprint Fragment	10%	1	100%
Audio Alarm	1.1%	1	100%
Barbed Wooden Barricade	1.1%	1	100%
Beancan Grenade	1.1%	1	100%
Bed	1.1%	1	100%
Bee Grenade	1.1%	1	100%
Beehive	1.1%	1	100%
Blocker	1.1%	1	100%
Boomerang	1.1%	1	100%
Bucket Helmet	1.1%	1	100%
Button	1.1%	1	100%
Ceiling Light	1.1%	1	100%
Chainlink Fence	1.1%	1	100%
Chainlink Fence Gate	1.1%	1	100%
Chair	1.1%	1	100%
Chicken Coop	1.1%	1	100%
Combat Knife	1.1%	1	100%
Compound Bow	1.1%	1	100%
Cooking Workbench	1.1%	1	100%
Door Controller	1.1%	1	100%
Double Barrel Shotgun	1.1%	1	10%
Drop Box	1.1%	1	100%
Electric Heater	1.1%	1	100%
Electrical Branch	1.1%	1	100%
Engineering Workbench	1.1%	1	100%
Flame Turret	1.1%	1	100%
Flare	1.1%	4 to 5	100%
Flasher Light	1.1%	1	100%
Floor grill	1.1%	1	100%
Floor triangle grill	1.1%	1	100%
Fluid Combiner	1.1%	1	100%
Fluid Splitter	1.1%	1	100%
Fluid Switch & Pump	1.1%	1	100%
Fridge	1.1%	1	100%
Handmade SMG	1.1%	1	10 to 20%
Hatchet	1.1%	1	100%
High External Wooden Gate	1.1%	1	100%
High External Wooden Wall	1.1%	1	100%
Hopper	1.1%	1	100%
Hot Air Balloon Armor	1.1%	1	100%
Industrial Combiner	1.1%	1	100%
Industrial Conveyor	1.1%	1	100%
Industrial Splitter	1.1%	1	100%
Jacket	1.1%	1	100%
Kayak	1.1%	1	100%
Large Solar Panel	1.1%	1	100%
Longsleeve T-Shirt	1.1%	1	100%
Mace	1.1%	1	100%
Metal Detector	1.1%	1	100%
Metal Window Bars	1.1%	1	100%
Miners Hat	1.1%	1	100%
Mini Crossbow	1.1%	1	20 to 50%
Mixing Table	1.1%	1	100%
OR Switch	1.1%	1	100%
Pants	1.1%	1	100%
Pickaxe	1.1%	1	100%
Pressure Pad	1.1%	1	100%
Prisoner Hood	1.1%	1	100%
Reactive Target	1.1%	1	100%
Reinforced Wooden Shield	1.1%	1	100%
Revolver	1.1%	1	10 to 20%
Riot Helmet	1.1%	1	100%
Root Combiner	1.1%	1	100%
Salvaged Cleaver	1.1%	1	100%
Salvaged Hammer	1.1%	1	100%
Salvaged Sword	1.1%	1	100%
Sandbag Barricade	1.1%	4	100%
Satchel Charge	1.1%	1	100%
Shirt	1.1%	1	100%
Shotgun Trap	1.1%	1	100%
Siege Tower	1.1%	1	100%
Siren Light	1.1%	1	100%
Small Rechargeable Battery	1.1%	1	100%
Small Water Catcher	1.1%	1	100%
Snap Trap	1.1%	1	100%
Snow Jacket	1.1%	1	100%
Speargun	1.1%	1	20 to 50%
Splitter	1.1%	1	100%
Sprinkler	1.1%	1	100%
Storage Adaptor	1.1%	1	100%
Switch	1.1%	1	100%
T-Shirt	1.1%	1	100%
Telephone	1.1%	1	100%
Timer	1.1%	1	100%
Tin Can Alarm	1.1%	1	100%
Watch Tower	1.1%	1	100%
Waterpipe Shotgun	1.1%	1	25 to 75%
Weapon flashlight	1.1%	1	100%
Wooden Armor Insert	1.1%	1	100%
Wooden Ladder	1.1%	1	100%
XOR Switch	1.1%	1	100%

Where to find the Sunken Chest

Places the map lays out several times, per place
Where	Each one holds	Layouts with it
Dive sites	about 0.5 to 1	all 6

How Sunken Chest works in Rust

Across procedural Rust server maps, Sunken Chest is a world loot prefab featuring 12 inventory slots (3 breakable durability) that draws from 105 possible item entries alongside 10 guaranteed Scrap across 1 monument and world spawner group. 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.

Sunken Chest drop odds, scrap yields and monument spawners

In addition to per-item drop probabilities, stack size bounds, and spawn durability ranges, the Sunken Chest 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: 3 | Inventory slots: 12 | Scrap, every time: 10 | Items it can drop: 105 | Places: 1 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 Sunken Chest drop in Rust and how many slots does it have?

Opening Sunken Chest in Rust reveals 12 inventory slots drawn from 105 possible loot items plus 10 guaranteed Scrap on every open, with per-open odds, stack bounds, and durability ranges listed above.

Where does Sunken Chest spawn most often in Rust?

Sunken Chest (3 HP) appears through world events, vehicle encounters, missions, or biome loot points rather than at static monument spawners, rolling its 105-item drop table whenever players trigger the encounter.

How much guaranteed scrap do you get from Sunken Chest in Rust?

Every Sunken Chest opened in Rust grants 10 guaranteed Scrap alongside its 105 rolled loot entries, and any dropped components can be shredded at a monument recycler for additional Scrap.

How much health does Sunken Chest have in Rust and how do you open it?

Sunken Chest carries 3 breakable hitpoints and must be smashed with melee weapons, tools, or projectiles before its 12 loot slots and any rolled Scrap spill onto the ground.

How is Sunken Chest triggered or respawned on a Rust server?

Because Sunken Chest 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 Sunken Chest calculated?

Each item percentage in the Sunken Chest 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 Sunken Chest spawn at full durability?

Firearms, tools, or armor pieces in the Sunken Chest 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