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Sheet Metal goes into 10 recipes and recycles into 8 scrap in an unpowered green recycler.
Crates, barrels and NPCs that drop Sheet Metal, most likely first
| From | Chance | Amount |
|---|---|---|
 Locked Crate | 31.3% | 5 to 10 |
 Underwater Lab Component Crate | 26.5% | 1 to 2 |
 Supply Drop | 16% | 5 to 10 |
 Normal Crate | 14.3% | 1 |
 Sunken Chest | 14.3% | 1 |
 Wagon Normal Crate | 14.3% | 1 |
Tunnel Dweller and Underwater Dweller | 7.4% | 1 to 3 |
 Sunken Crate | 4.8% | 1 |
Scientist | 4.7% | 1 |
 Barrel | 1.4% | 1 |
 Santa's Supply Drop, Christmas event only | 16% | 5 to 10 |
 Gingerbread Mine Present, Christmas event only | 14.3% | 1 |
Chance is for one container opened or one NPC killed. Amount is how many it holds when it holds any.
What Sheet Metal gives back in each recycler
| Recycler | Efficiency | You get | Scrap per stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red recycler | 75% | 1 + 50%  High Quality Metal, 150  Metal Fragments, 12  Scrap | 240 |
| Green recycler (powered) | 60% | 1 + 20% High Quality Metal, 120 Metal Fragments, 9.6 Scrap | 192 |
| Green recycler | 50% | 1 High Quality Metal, 100 Metal Fragments, 8 Scrap | 160 |
| Yellow recycler | 40% | 80% High Quality Metal, 80 Metal Fragments, 6.4 Scrap | 128 |
Sheet Metal breaks down into High Quality Metal, Metal Fragments and Scrap.
A recycler takes 2 per cycle, so a full stack of 20 goes through in 10 cycles.
Figures are for one item in perfect condition. Each recycler’s name opens its full table at this item. “1 + 50%” means 1 every time and a 50% chance of one more, and a percentage alone is the chance of getting one. Scrap keeps its decimals: the recycler pays whole pieces and carries the rest into its next payout. Scrap per stack is for one full stack of the item.
11 items give back Sheet Metal in a recycler
| Item | Red recycler | Green recycler (powered) | Green recycler | Yellow recycler |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Reinforced Workbench Upgrade | 2 + 25% | 1 + 80% | 1 + 50% | 1 + 20% |
 Wind Turbine | 2 + 25% | 1 + 80% | 1 + 50% | 1 + 20% |
 Ballista | 1 + 50% | 1 + 20% | 1 | 80% |
 Battering Ram | 1 + 50% | 1 + 20% | 1 | 80% |
 Heavy Plate Helmet | 1 + 50% | 1 + 20% | 1 | 80% |
 Heavy Plate Jacket | 1 + 50% | 1 + 20% | 1 | 80% |
 Mounted Ballista | 1 + 50% | 1 + 20% | 1 | 80% |
 Beehive | 75% | 60% | 50% | 40% |
 Heavy Plate Pants | 75% | 60% | 50% | 40% |
 Water Wheel | 75% | 60% | 50% | 40% |
 High External Stone Wall | 25% | 20% | 17% | 13% |
What one of each item gives back in Sheet Metal, in perfect condition, most first by the green recycler’s figure. “2 + 25%” means 2 every time and a 25% chance of one more, and a percentage alone is the chance of getting one.
In Rust, Sheet Metal is a crafting part in the Components category (item ID #-1994909036, console shortname sheetmetal). In active play, it follows standard server rules for crafting part gear across procedural maps. Inventory storage stacks up to 20 units per slot, and uncollected ground drops despawn after 20 minutes.
Sheet metal scraps.
In Rust, Sheet Metal has no player crafting recipe; acquisition relies on 10 world loot tables read from the Rust game files. Shredding a spare copy at a green recycler returns 8 scrap at fifty percent yield (vs forty percent at safe-zone yellow units). Equipped and stored units carry no durability wear bar.
Sheet Metal is one of the 25 crafting parts; Rust classifies it under the Components inventory category.
When comparing Sheet Metal against related components 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sheet Metal | Components | 20 per slot | World loot / gather | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
| Rifle Body | Components | 10 per slot | World loot / gather | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
| Semi Automatic Body | Components | 10 per slot | World loot / gather | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
| Metal Blade | Components | 20 per slot | Workbench Level 2 | 30 scrap (Table) | Not recyclable |
Compare Sheet Metal with closely related crafting part sheets in the Rust item catalog:
To compare Sheet Metal against every item in its inventory category, browse All 63 items in Components.
In Rust, Sheet Metal belongs to the Components category under numeric ID -1994909036 (shortname sheetmetal) and stacks to 20 units per slot. It goes into 10 recipes, 3 of them weapons and as many attire, such as the Ballista, the Battering Ram and the Mounted Ballista.
Sheet Metal drops from 10 container and NPC loot tables in Rust, led by Locked Crate (31.3% chance), Underwater Lab Component Crate (26.5% chance), and Supply Drop (16% chance). Each listed probability reflects a single container opened or NPC killed, and found copies can be repaired or researched at base.
Sheet Metal recycles in Rust at an unpowered green recycler into 8 scrap, 1 High Quality Metal and 100 Metal Fragments. Monument green recyclers shred items one unit at a time on fast radtown cycles, whereas safe-zone yellow units trade lower material recovery for peacekeeper protection.
Sheet Metal comes back from 11 items in a recycler in Rust. It belongs to the Components category under numeric ID -1994909036 across 63 components and despawns after 20 minutes when dropped, with F1 console command inventory.giveid -1994909036 20 across 63 published Components entries.
Dropped on the ground in Rust, Sheet Metal despawns after 20 minutes by default. Moving it 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.
Sheet Metal stacks to 20 per slot in Rust. Players can split a pile in half with middle-click drag or move a custom quantity with Shift-click drag across inventory slots, storage boxes, and the Tool Cupboard, while dropped copies despawn after 20 minutes under the Components category (item ID -1994909036).
Sheet Metal has 32-bit signed item ID -1994909036 and shortname sheetmetal in Rust. Server plugins, custom loot tables, Vending Machine listings, and automated Industrial Conveyor filter strings reference these two identifiers under the Components category (stack limit 20 units per slot).
Server administrators in Rust spawn Sheet Metal in the F1 developer console with inventory.give sheetmetal 20 or inventory.giveid -1994909036 20 for 20 units. Both console spawn commands work only on dedicated or local worlds where your Steam account holds administrator or moderator privileges.