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Oil Refinery

Monument oil refineries smelt Crude Oil into 3 Low Grade Fuel every 3.33s across 17 locations on the Rust map.

Health
1,500
Wood burnt
One every 1.5s
Crude oil
3 low grade fuel each, one every 3.33s
Slots
1 in, 3 out, 1 for fuel
Charcoal
75% chance per wood burnt
In the game
13 in 10 monuments, plus 1 on each floating city

Where to find an oil refinery

Where Units Note
Power Plant 2
The Dome 2
Water Treatment Plant 2
Airfield 1
Harbor 1 1
Harbor 2 1
Launch Site 1
Outpost 1
Sewer Branch 1
Train Yard 1
Floating City 1 1 Deep Sea
Floating City 2 1 Deep Sea
Floating City 3 1 Deep Sea
Floating City 4 1 Deep Sea

The four floating cities belong to the Deep Sea and are not map monuments. A server shows one of them at a time unless its owner changes that.

How an oil refinery works

  • Each crude oil becomes 3 low grade fuel, and the refinery gets through one crude every 3.33s while it has wood to burn.
  • Crude oil only cooks at a heat between 1,400 and 1,600. The refinery runs at 1,500, the only oven in that band, which is why a furnace will not touch it.
  • It burns one wood every 1.5s, which comes to 2.22 wood for each crude oil.
  • Kept full, it gets through 18 crude oil a minute and turns out 54 low grade fuel, for 40 wood and about 30 charcoal.
  • Every piece of wood it burns has a 75% chance to leave a piece of charcoal behind.

The one you build yourself

The version you craft and place is the Small Oil Refinery, with the same 1,500 health as the monument one.

Item sheets: Crude Oil, Low Grade Fuel, Wood and Charcoal.

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

How the monument Oil Refinery works in Rust

On procedural Rust server maps, Oil Refinery (1,500 structural rating) appears as 17 permanent world fixtures distributed across 10 land or coastal compounds plus 4 offshore floating settlements (4 waterborne units). 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.

Oil Refinery monument locations, grid stages and efficiency

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

  • Map placement density (17 fixtures): Bolted into 10 land or coastal radtown layouts with 4 extra placements across 4 offshore floating settlements on every procedural seed.
  • Structural hitpoints and pickup rules: Carries a fixed 1,500 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: Pairs with a player-craftable workbench recipe that survivors can build and place inside a Tool Cupboard base.
  • 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 Oil Refinery units spawn at Rust monuments?

Vanilla Rust monument layouts mount 17 permanent stations of this type across 10 mainland or coastal monuments alongside 4 floating city installations across the 4 Deep Sea Floating Cities on every procedural map seed.

How much health does Oil Refinery have at a Rust monument?

The monument fixture of Oil Refinery is rated at 1,500 world hitpoints in Rust, and stays bolted to the monument terrain rather than picked up with a Hammer into a player inventory.

How does Oil Refinery operate at a Rust monument?

Public Small Oil Refineries burn Wood in their fuel slot to cook 1 Crude Oil into 3 Low Grade Fuel every 3.33 seconds across 17 fixed placements at safe zones, harbors, The Dome, and radtowns.

Does Oil Refinery depend on the Power Plant electrical grid in Rust?

Oil Refinery runs independently of the Power Plant Heavy Fuse boxes, allowing survivors to use the public station immediately at any of its 10 monument locations without powering the grid.

Which Rust monuments have Oil Refinery built into their layout?

Monument compounds housing this station include Power Plant, The Dome, Water Treatment Plant, Airfield, Harbor 1, and 5 other monuments (17 total units across 10 sites, plus 4 extra stations inside 4 Deep Sea Floating Cities), giving visiting players permanent public access across procedural server maps.

Can players craft and place their own version of Oil Refinery inside a base?

Survivors can unlock, craft, and deploy Small Oil Refinery inside a Tool Cupboard base for private use, whereas the 17 public monument units stay permanently bolted down and freely usable by any visitor on the server.

How does Oil Refinery compare to the other 16 monument machines in Rust?

Oil Refinery 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