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Put through an unpowered green recycler, Diving Fins break down into 50 Metal Fragments.
Crates, barrels and NPCs that drop Diving Fins, most likely first
| From | Chance | Amount |
|---|---|---|
 Normal Crate | 1.7% | 1 |
 Wagon Normal Crate | 1.7% | 1 |
 Tool Box | 1.1% | 1 |
 Sunken Crate | 0.73% | 1 |
Chance is for one container opened or one NPC killed. Amount is how many it holds when it holds any.
What Diving Fins give back in each recycler
| Recycler | Efficiency | You get |
|---|---|---|
| Red recycler | 75% | 75  Metal Fragments |
| Green recycler (powered) | 60% | 60 Metal Fragments |
| Green recycler | 50% | 50 Metal Fragments |
| Yellow recycler | 40% | 40 Metal Fragments |
Diving Fins break down into Metal Fragments.
A recycler takes one at a time.
Figures are for one item in perfect condition. Each recycler’s name opens its full table at this item.
In Rust, Diving Fins is a clothing and armor in the Attire category (item ID #296519935, console shortname diving.fins). In active play, they follow standard server rules for clothing and armor gear across procedural maps. Inventory storage holds a single unit per slot, and uncollected ground drops despawn after 20 minutes.
Diving Fins. Significantly boosts your speed underwater but greatly reduces mobility on land.
In Rust, Diving Fins have no player crafting recipe; acquisition relies on 4 world loot tables read from the Rust game files. Shredding a spare copy at a green recycler recovers base materials at fifty percent yield (vs forty percent at safe-zone yellow units). Equipped and stored units carry no durability wear bar.
When comparing Diving Fins against related attire in Rust, prioritize farming its highest-probability monument containers or recycling surplus components at an unpowered radtown green recycler (fifty percent base yield, versus forty percent at safe-zone yellow units) because this item cannot be crafted at a player workbench.
| Item | Category | Stack Limit | Craft / Source | Tech Tree / Research | Green Recycler Yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diving Fins | Attire | 1 per slot | World loot / gather | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
| Wetsuit | Attire | 1 per slot | World loot / gather | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
| Diving Mask | Attire | 1 per slot | World loot / gather | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
| Diving Tank | Attire | 1 per slot | World loot / gather | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
Compare Diving Fins with closely related clothing and armor sheets in the Rust item catalog:
To compare Diving Fins against every item in its inventory category, browse All 133 items in Attire.
Diving Fins can come up on a fishing line as junk in Rust. They belong to the Attire category under numeric ID 296519935 across 133 attire and despawn after 20 minutes when dropped on a default server, with F1 console command inventory.giveid 296519935 1.
Diving Fins drop from 4 container and NPC loot tables in Rust, led by Normal Crate (1.7% chance), Wagon Normal Crate (1.7% chance), and Tool Box (1.1% chance). Each listed probability reflects a single container opened or NPC killed, and found copies can be repaired or researched at base.
Diving Fins recycle in Rust at an unpowered green recycler into 50 Metal Fragments. They are indexed under the Attire category alongside 132 other attire in Rust (item ID 296519935) and despawn after 20 minutes when dropped, with F1 console command inventory.giveid 296519935 1.
Dropped on the ground in Rust, Diving Fins despawn after 20 minutes by default. Moving them into a storage box, locker, or player inventory immediately cancels the ground despawn countdown, which the server assigns by item rarity tier to prevent dropped loot from lagging active worlds.
Diving Fins have 32-bit signed item ID 296519935 and shortname diving.fins in Rust. Server plugins, custom loot tables, Vending Machine listings, and automated Industrial Conveyor filter strings reference these two identifiers under the Attire category (stack limit 1 unit per slot).
Server administrators in Rust spawn Diving Fins in the F1 developer console by typing inventory.give diving.fins 1 or inventory.giveid 296519935 1 for a single unit. Both console spawn commands work only on dedicated or local worlds where your Steam account holds administrator or moderator privileges.