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The Water Barrel has 250 health once placed, and a Research Table turns it into a blueprint for 15 scrap.
Wood
Tarp
Copy it, then hold Shift and click Paste (JSON) in the conveyor, in game.
[
{
"TargetCategory": null,
"MaxAmountInOutput": 250,
"BufferAmount": 0,
"MinAmountInInput": 0,
"IsBlueprint": false,
"TargetItemName": "wood"
},
{
"TargetCategory": null,
"MaxAmountInOutput": 1,
"BufferAmount": 0,
"MinAmountInInput": 0,
"IsBlueprint": false,
"TargetItemName": "tarp"
}
]
No workbench, 15s, yields 1
Faster at a higher workbench: 7.5s at Workbench Level 1, 3.75s at Workbench Level 2 or 3.
Researching the blueprint costs 15 scrap at a Research Table.
Crates, barrels and NPCs that drop the Water Barrel, most likely first
| From | Chance | Amount |
|---|---|---|
 Primitive Crate | 4.8% | 1 to 2 |
Tunnel Dweller and Underwater Dweller | 2.2% | 1 to 2 |
 Barrel | 1.1% | 1 |
Chance is for one container opened or one NPC killed. Amount is how many it holds when it holds any.
A repair bench charges 20% of the recipe to fix a broken item, less when it is only worn. A component in the recipe is charged as the first ingredient of its own recipe instead, or not at all when it has no recipe.
Each swing charges the share of the cost for 50 health, rounded up to whole resources, and restores as much health as it paid for, which can be more than 50. Nothing can be repaired for 30 seconds after it takes damage.
What the Water Barrel gives back in each recycler
| Recycler | Efficiency | You get |
|---|---|---|
| Red recycler | 75% | 75% Tarp, 187 + 50% Wood |
| Green recycler (powered) | 60% | 60% Tarp, 150 Wood |
| Green recycler | 50% | 50% Tarp, 125 Wood |
| Yellow recycler | 40% | 40% Tarp, 100 Wood |
The Water Barrel breaks down into Tarp and Wood.
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. “187 + 50%” means 187 every time and a 50% chance of one more, and a percentage alone is the chance of getting one.
In Rust, Water Barrel is a deployable in the Deployables category (item ID #-1863559151, console shortname water.barrel). In active play, it follows standard server rules for deployable gear across procedural maps. Inventory storage holds a single unit per slot, and uncollected ground drops despawn after 5 minutes.
A storage container for water. Can output 10ml of water a second via a hose.
Crafting Water Barrel in Rust takes 15 seconds by hand without a workbench once the 15 scrap blueprint node is unlocked, with all ballistics, crafting, and durability values 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). Damaged copies repair at a Repair Bench for a fraction of recipe cost.
When choosing between Water Barrel and related deployables in Rust, prioritize researching a looted or traded copy at a Research Table (15 scrap) whenever you want to skip the 150-scrap tech tree path and save 135 scrap, or unlock the tech tree branch when your group also needs the prerequisite blueprints.
| Item | Category | Stack Limit | Craft / Source | Tech Tree / Research | Green Recycler Yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Water Barrel | Deployables | 1 per slot | Crafted by hand | 15 node / 150 path | Not recyclable |
| Hobo Barrel | Deployables | 1 per slot | Crafted by hand | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
| Water Purifier | Deployables | 1 per slot | Crafted by hand | 10 scrap (Table) | Not recyclable |
| Large Water Catcher | Construction | 1 per slot | Workbench Level 2 | 30 node / 240 path | Not recyclable |
Compare Water Barrel with closely related deployable sheets in the Rust item catalog:
To compare Water Barrel against every item in its inventory category, browse All 168 items in Deployables, or plan prerequisite scrap paths on the The Engineering Workbench tech tree, tile by tile.
The Water Barrel has 250 health once placed in Rust. It belongs to the Deployables category under numeric ID -1863559151 across 168 deployables, while F1 console command inventory.giveid -1863559151 1 spawns 1 unit for testing across 168 published Deployables entries (158 with crafting blueprints).
The Water Barrel is crafted by hand from 250 Wood and 1 Tarp, once the blueprint is learned in Rust. Non-craftable components like Tarp must be looted from monument crates or recycled gear before queuing the craft at your bench.
The Water Barrel drops from 3 container and NPC loot tables in Rust, led by Primitive Crate (4.8% chance), Tunnel Dweller and Underwater Dweller (2.2% chance), and Barrel (1.1% chance). Each listed probability reflects a single container opened or NPC killed, and found copies can be repaired or researched at base.
The Water Barrel recycles in Rust at an unpowered green recycler into a 50% chance of a Tarp and 125 Wood. Full material recovery applies to an undamaged copy, whereas worn items return proportionally fewer resources based on their remaining condition bar when shredded.
The Water Barrel takes 15 seconds to craft, down to 3.75 seconds at Workbench Level 2 or 3 in Rust. It sits in the Deployables catalog with item ID -1863559151 alongside 167 related deployables, stacking up to 1 unit per inventory or container slot.
A repair bench fixes the Water Barrel from broken for 50 Wood and 20 Cloth, and a hammer takes it from broken to full in five swings for 124 Wood and 51 Cloth in Rust. Bench repairs require no blueprint and reduce maximum condition by 20% across a full durability bar.
Blueprint progression for Water Barrel at Engineering Workbench in Rust charges 15 scrap on the target node and 150 cumulative scrap along the prerequisite branch, while direct blueprint study at a Research Table charges 15 scrap. It belongs to the Deployables category under numeric ID -1863559151 across 168 deployables.
Dropped on the ground in Rust, the Water Barrel despawns after 5 minutes by default. Picking it back up into a player inventory or storing it inside a base container immediately resets that ground despawn timer, which the server scales by item rarity tier.
The Water Barrel has 32-bit signed item ID -1863559151 and shortname water.barrel in Rust. Server plugins, custom loot tables, Vending Machine listings, and automated Industrial Conveyor filter strings reference these two identifiers under the Deployables category (stack limit 1 unit per slot).
Server administrators in Rust spawn the Water Barrel in the F1 developer console by typing inventory.give water.barrel 1 or inventory.giveid -1863559151 1 for a single unit. Both console spawn commands require administrator or moderator privileges on the server, while regular players can bind a quick-craft shortcut key instead.
Cloth