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The Water Wheel costs 60 scrap to research and has 400 health once placed.
What one batch takes.
Wood
Gears
Sheet Metal
The same recipe expanded until every line is something you gather, smelt or loot.
Wood
Scrap
Metal Fragments
Sheet Metal
Wood
Gears
Sheet Metal
Copy it, then hold Shift and click Paste (JSON) in the conveyor, in game.
[
{
"TargetCategory": null,
"MaxAmountInOutput": 500,
"BufferAmount": 0,
"MinAmountInInput": 0,
"IsBlueprint": false,
"TargetItemName": "wood"
},
{
"TargetCategory": null,
"MaxAmountInOutput": 2,
"BufferAmount": 0,
"MinAmountInInput": 0,
"IsBlueprint": false,
"TargetItemName": "gears"
},
{
"TargetCategory": null,
"MaxAmountInOutput": 1,
"BufferAmount": 0,
"MinAmountInInput": 0,
"IsBlueprint": false,
"TargetItemName": "sheetmetal"
}
]
Workbench Level 1, 15s, yields 1
Faster at a higher workbench: 7.5s at Workbench Level 2, 3.75s at Workbench Level 3.
Researching the blueprint costs 60 scrap at a Research Table.
Wood,
Metal Fragments
Wood,
Metal FragmentsA 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 Wheel gives back in each recycler
| Recycler | Efficiency | You get |
|---|---|---|
| Red recycler | 75% | 1 + 50% Gears, 75% Sheet Metal, 375 Wood |
| Green recycler (powered) | 60% | 1 + 20% Gears, 60% Sheet Metal, 300 Wood |
| Green recycler | 50% | 1 Gears, 50% Sheet Metal, 250 Wood |
| Yellow recycler | 40% | 80% Gears, 40% Sheet Metal, 200 Wood |
The Water Wheel breaks down into Gears, Sheet Metal 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. “1 + 50%” means 1 every time and a 50% chance of one more, and a percentage alone is the chance of getting one.
In Rust, Water Wheel is a electrical in the Electrical category (item ID #-379403794, console shortname generator.water). In active play, it follows standard server rules for electrical gear across procedural maps. Inventory storage holds a single unit per slot, and uncollected ground drops despawn after 40 minutes.
Converts kinetic energy harvested from flowing water into electricity.
Crafting Water Wheel in Rust takes 15 seconds at a Workbench Level 1 once the 60 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 Wheel and related electrical in Rust, prioritize researching a looted or traded copy at a Research Table (60 scrap) whenever you want to skip the 75-scrap tech tree path and save 15 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 Wheel | Electrical | 1 per slot | Workbench Level 1 | 60 node / 75 path | Not recyclable |
| Wind Turbine | Electrical | 1 per slot | Workbench Level 2 | 60 node / 405 path | Not recyclable |
| Fridge | Electrical | 1 per slot | Workbench Level 1 | 15 node / 270 path | Not recyclable |
| Tripod Spot Light | Electrical | 10 per slot | Workbench Level 1 | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
Compare Water Wheel with closely related electrical sheets in the Rust item catalog:
To compare Water Wheel against every item in its inventory category, browse All 83 items in Electrical, or plan prerequisite scrap paths on the The Engineering Workbench tech tree, tile by tile.
The Water Wheel has 400 health once placed in Rust. It belongs to the Electrical category under numeric ID -379403794 across 83 electrical, while F1 console command inventory.giveid -379403794 1 spawns 1 unit for testing across 83 published Electrical entries (79 with crafting blueprints).
The Water Wheel is crafted at a Workbench Level 1 from 500 Wood, 2 Gears and 1 Sheet Metal, once the blueprint is learned in Rust. Non-craftable components like Sheet Metal must be looted from monument crates or recycled gear before queuing the craft at your bench.
The Water Wheel recycles in Rust at an unpowered green recycler into 1 Gears, a 50% chance of a Sheet Metal and 250 Wood. Full recycler yields apply to an undamaged copy, while partially worn gear returns proportionally fewer materials based on its remaining durability bar.
The Water Wheel takes 15 seconds to craft, down to 3.75 seconds at Workbench Level 3 in Rust. It belongs to the Electrical category under numeric ID -379403794 across 83 electrical, stacking to 1 unit per slot, with F1 console command inventory.giveid -379403794 1.
A repair bench fixes the Water Wheel from broken for 100 Wood and 50 Metal Fragments, and a hammer takes it from broken to full in eight swings for 247 Wood and 116 Metal Fragments in Rust.
Blueprint progression for Water Wheel at Engineering Workbench in Rust charges 60 scrap on the target node and 75 cumulative scrap along the prerequisite branch, while direct blueprint study at a Research Table charges 60 scrap. It belongs to the Electrical category under numeric ID -379403794 across 83 electrical.
Dropped on the ground in Rust, the Water Wheel despawns after 40 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 Wheel has 32-bit signed item ID -379403794 and shortname generator.water in Rust. Server plugins, custom loot tables, Vending Machine listings, and automated Industrial Conveyor filter strings reference these two identifiers under the Electrical category (stack limit 1 unit per slot).
Server administrators in Rust spawn the Water Wheel in the F1 developer console by typing inventory.give generator.water 1 or inventory.giveid -379403794 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.