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Magnet Crane

The Junkyard magnet crane lifts vehicles into the shredder, burning 4 to 20 Low Grade Fuel per minute within 110 m.

Health
500
Fuel
Low Grade Fuel
Fuel use
4 to 20 a minute
Safe radius
110 m around its spawn
Respawn check
Every 5 to 10 minutes
In the game
One in each of one monument

Where to find a magnet crane

Where Units
Junkyard 1

How a magnet crane works

  • Its job is feeding the shredder: lift a car or a pickup truck with the magnet and drop it in.
  • It burns Low Grade Fuel even standing still, 4 a minute. Driving flat out it uses 15 a minute with the magnet empty and 20 with a load on it. Swinging the arm costs nothing extra.
  • Past 110 m from where it spawned, every 6 m you drive costs it 15% of its health, and the game tells you to go back to the Junkyard.
  • The Junkyard holds one crane at a time. Every 5 to 10 minutes it checks, and spawns a new one if the old one is gone, so a replacement turns up within 10 minutes, sooner on a very full server.

What the shredder gives for each vehicle

Item sheets: Low Grade Fuel.

Other monument machines: Green Recycler, Yellow Recycler, Red Recycler, Research Table, Repair Bench, Monument Workbench Level 1, Monument Workbench Level 2, Oil Refinery, Barbecue, Pumpjack, Mining Quarry, Water Catcher, Crude Producer, Giant Excavator, Junkyard Shredder and Power Grid.

How the monument Magnet Crane works in Rust

On procedural Rust server maps, Magnet Crane (500 structural rating) appears as 1 permanent world fixture distributed across 1 monument compound. Unlike player-built workshop furniture placed inside a private base, these public monument installations remain bolted to the map terrain across the entire wipe and can be operated by any visiting survivor without Tool Cupboard authorization.

Magnet Crane monument locations, grid stages and efficiency

Monument placement tables, fuel or material conversion rates, and base-deployable comparisons above document where Magnet Crane stands on every procedural map seed and how its public utility mechanics compare against player-crafted stations.

  • Map placement density (1 fixture): Bolted into 1 land or coastal radtown layout on every procedural seed.
  • Structural hitpoints and pickup rules: Carries a fixed 500 hitpoint pool and remains permanently anchored to the monument floor without Hammer pickup.
  • Electrical grid and fuel requirements: Self-contained monument utility that operates immediately without slotting Heavy Fuses at Power Plant.
  • Base crafting and deployable comparison: Exclusive to procedural monument compounds with no craftable base equivalent in vanilla survival.
  • Public access and PvP considerations: Open to all players without building privilege, making surrounding sightlines, safe-zone turrets, and cycle timers critical during loot runs.

Frequently asked questions

How many Magnet Crane units spawn at Rust monuments?

Vanilla Rust monument layouts mount 1 permanent station of this type across 1 mainland or coastal monument, giving solo survivors and groups reliable public station access across every procedural map seed and server wipe.

How much health does Magnet Crane have at a Rust monument?

The monument fixture of Magnet Crane is rated at 500 world hitpoints in Rust, and stays bolted to the monument terrain rather than picked up with a Hammer into a player inventory.

How does Magnet Crane operate at a Rust monument?

Inside the Junkyard monument, players load Low Grade Fuel into the Magnet Crane cab, drive the crane boom over wrecked car props, and drop vehicles into the Shredder chute for Scrap and Metal Fragments.

Does Magnet Crane depend on the Power Plant electrical grid in Rust?

Magnet Crane runs independently of the Power Plant Heavy Fuse boxes, allowing survivors to use the public station immediately at any of its 1 monument location without powering the grid.

Which Rust monuments have Magnet Crane built into their layout?

Monument compounds housing this station include Junkyard (1 total unit across 1 site), giving solo survivors and groups permanent public access at those fixed coordinates throughout every procedural server wipe.

Can players craft and place their own version of Magnet Crane inside a base?

Magnet Crane has no craftable base counterpart in vanilla Rust; it exists solely as a world installation bolted into monument terrain across its 1 monument placement, giving visitors free public access.

How does Magnet Crane compare to the other 16 monument machines in Rust?

Magnet Crane is 1 of 17 interactive monument station types indexed in the RustPotato Environment directory, alongside yellow, green, and red recyclers, Level 1 and 2 workbenches, diesel quarries, pumpjacks, the Giant Excavator, and public utility benches.

All 17 monument machines side by side