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A repair bench brings the Strobe Light back from broken for 20 Metal Fragments and 1 High Quality Metal.
What one batch takes.
Metal Fragments
High Quality Metal
Copy it, then hold Shift and click Paste (JSON) in the conveyor, in game.
[
{
"TargetCategory": null,
"MaxAmountInOutput": 100,
"BufferAmount": 0,
"MinAmountInInput": 0,
"IsBlueprint": false,
"TargetItemName": "metal.fragments"
},
{
"TargetCategory": null,
"MaxAmountInOutput": 2,
"BufferAmount": 0,
"MinAmountInInput": 0,
"IsBlueprint": false,
"TargetItemName": "metal.refined"
}
]
No workbench, 15s, yields 1
Faster at a higher workbench: 7.5s at Workbench Level 1, 3.75s at Workbench Level 2 or 3.
A repair bench charges 20% of the recipe to fix a broken item, less when it is only worn.
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 Strobe Light gives back in each recycler
| Recycler | Efficiency | You get |
|---|---|---|
| Red recycler | 75% | 1 + 50% High Quality Metal, 75 Metal Fragments |
| Green recycler (powered) | 60% | 1 + 20% High Quality Metal, 60 Metal Fragments |
| Green recycler | 50% | 1 High Quality Metal, 50 Metal Fragments |
| Yellow recycler | 40% | 80% High Quality Metal, 40 Metal Fragments |
The Strobe Light breaks down into High Quality Metal and 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. “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, Strobe Light is a fun and decoration in the Misc category (item ID #2104517339, console shortname strobelight). 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 flashing light, 3 speeds. Causes seizures.
Crafting Strobe Light in Rust takes 15 seconds by hand without a workbench, 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.
The Strobe Light is one of the 84 fun and decoration items; Rust classifies it under the Misc inventory category.
When comparing Strobe Light against related misc 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strobe Light | Misc | 1 per slot | Crafted by hand | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
| Laser Light | Fun | 5 per slot | Workbench Level 1 | 10 scrap (Table) | Not recyclable |
| Sound Light | Fun | 5 per slot | Workbench Level 1 | 10 scrap (Table) | Not recyclable |
| Orange Boomer | Fun | 20 per slot | Crafted by hand | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
Compare Strobe Light with closely related fun and decoration sheets in the Rust item catalog:
To compare Strobe Light against every item in its inventory category, browse All 50 items in Misc.
The Strobe Light has 100 health once placed in Rust. It belongs to the Misc category under numeric ID 2104517339 across 50 misc, while F1 console command inventory.giveid 2104517339 1 spawns 1 unit for testing across 50 published Misc entries (18 with crafting blueprints).
The Strobe Light is crafted by hand from 100 Metal Fragments and 2 High Quality Metal in Rust. Raw ores smelt into metal inputs in a furnace while non-craftable components must be looted from monument crates before queuing the craft at your workbench.
The Strobe Light recycles in Rust at an unpowered green recycler into 1 High Quality Metal and 50 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 Strobe Light takes 15 seconds to craft, down to 3.75 seconds at Workbench Level 2 or 3 in Rust. It belongs to the Misc category under numeric ID 2104517339 across 50 misc and despawns after 5 minutes when dropped on a default server.
A repair bench fixes the Strobe Light from broken for 20 Metal Fragments and 1 High Quality Metal, and a hammer takes it from broken to full in two swings for 50 Metal Fragments and 2 High Quality Metal in Rust.
Dropped on the ground in Rust, the Strobe Light 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 Strobe Light has 32-bit signed item ID 2104517339 and shortname strobelight in Rust. Server plugins, custom loot tables, Vending Machine listings, and automated Industrial Conveyor filter strings reference these two identifiers under the Misc category (stack limit 1 unit per slot).
Server administrators in Rust spawn the Strobe Light in the F1 developer console by typing inventory.give strobelight 1 or inventory.giveid 2104517339 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.