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A repair bench brings the Portable Boom Box back from broken for 24 Metal Fragments.
What one batch takes.
Metal Fragments
Metal Fragments
Copy it, then hold Shift and click Paste (JSON) in the conveyor, in game.
[
{
"TargetCategory": null,
"MaxAmountInOutput": 120,
"BufferAmount": 0,
"MinAmountInInput": 0,
"IsBlueprint": false,
"TargetItemName": "metal.fragments"
}
]
Workbench Level 1, 15s, yields 1
Faster at a higher workbench: 7.5s at Workbench Level 2, 3.75s at Workbench Level 3.
The Portable Boom Box blueprint comes with the Voice Props Pack DLC, so owners craft it without researching it. Researching it anyway costs 10 scrap at a Research Table.
A repair bench charges 20% of the recipe to fix a broken item, less when it is only worn.
What the Portable Boom Box gives back in each recycler
| Recycler | Efficiency | You get |
|---|---|---|
| Red recycler | 75% | 90 Metal Fragments |
| Green recycler (powered) | 60% | 72 Metal Fragments |
| Green recycler | 50% | 60 Metal Fragments |
| Yellow recycler | 40% | 48 Metal Fragments |
The Portable Boom Box breaks 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, Portable Boom Box is a fun and decoration in the Fun category (item ID #576509618, console shortname fun.boomboxportable). In active play, it follows standard server rules for fun and decoration gear across procedural maps. Inventory storage holds a single unit per slot, and uncollected ground drops despawn after 5 minutes.
A portable Boom Box that can play tapes and internet audio streams. [attack] to start/stop and [attack2] to modify settings.
Crafting Portable Boom Box in Rust takes 15 seconds at a Workbench Level 1, 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 comparing Portable Boom Box against related fun in Rust, craft copies once the blueprint is unlocked (15 seconds per craft) and recycle surplus spares at an unpowered radtown green recycler (fifty percent base efficiency) rather than a safe-zone yellow recycler (forty percent efficiency) to maximize recovered materials.
| Item | Category | Stack Limit | Craft / Source | Tech Tree / Research | Green Recycler Yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portable Boom Box | Fun | 1 per slot | Workbench Level 1 | 10 scrap (Table) | Not recyclable |
| Boom Box | Fun | 1 per slot | Workbench Level 1 | 10 scrap (Table) | Not recyclable |
| Cassette Recorder | Fun | 1 per slot | Workbench Level 1 | 10 scrap (Table) | Not recyclable |
| Pan Flute | Fun | 1 per slot | Crafted by hand | 10 scrap (Table) | Not recyclable |
Compare Portable Boom Box with closely related fun and decoration sheets in the Rust item catalog:
To compare Portable Boom Box against every item in its inventory category, browse All 63 items in Fun.
The Portable Boom Box comes with the Voice Props Pack DLC in Rust. It is crafted at a Workbench Level 1 from 120 Metal Fragments. Players smelt raw ores in a furnace and gather required components from monument crates before queuing the craft at their workbench.
The Portable Boom Box recycles in Rust at an unpowered green recycler into 60 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.
The Portable Boom Box takes 15 seconds to craft, down to 3.75 seconds at Workbench Level 3 in Rust. It is indexed under the Fun category alongside 62 other fun in Rust (item ID 576509618) across 63 published Fun entries (57 with crafting blueprints).
The Portable Boom Box blueprint comes with the Voice Props Pack DLC, so owners craft it without researching it in Rust. Researching it anyway costs 10 scrap at a Research Table. It belongs to the Fun category under numeric ID 576509618 across 63 fun.
Dropped with nothing attached or inside in Rust, the Portable Boom Box despawns after 5 minutes by default. Picking it back up into an inventory or placing it inside a storage container resets the ground despawn timer, which the server determines by item rarity tier.
The Portable Boom Box has 32-bit signed item ID 576509618 and shortname fun.boomboxportable in Rust. Server plugins, custom loot tables, Vending Machine listings, and automated Industrial Conveyor filter strings reference these two identifiers under the Fun category (stack limit 1 unit per slot).
Server administrators in Rust spawn the Portable Boom Box in the F1 developer console by typing inventory.give fun.boomboxportable 1 or inventory.giveid 576509618 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.