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Bone Fragments

Resource,

Bone Fragments go into 7 recipes and are harvested from 14 animals (Bear, Boar, Bull and 11 more).

Where to findRecycled fromStatsUsed in

Where to find Bone Fragments

GatheredPicked upBreaking down

Bone Fragments from one animal, tool by tool

Animal	Hatchet +12, keeps 100%	Mace +5, keeps 83%	Jackhammer +3, keeps 71%	Chainsaw +1, keeps 67%	Stone Hatchet +1, keeps 60%	Rock +4, keeps 50%	Pickaxe +3, keeps 45%
Crocodile	170	142	122	114	102	85	77
Polar bear	170	143	124	114	103	85	78
Bear	150	126	109	100	90	75	68
Panther	150	126	109	100	90	75	68
Tiger	150	126	108	100	91	75	68
Bull	100	85	74	67	61	50	46
Cow	100	85	74	67	61	50	46
Boar	50	44	38	38	31	25	23
Horse	50	44	39	38	31	25	23
Shark	50	43	37	38	31	25	23
Sheep	50	43	38	34	31	25	23
Stag	50	44	39	38	31	25	23
Wolf	40	34	29	30	25	20	18
Chicken	12	12	12	0	8	6	6

What a full node, tree or animal leaves in your inventory, finish bonus included when the tool earns it.

Hatchet column: also Salvaged Axe, Sickle, Bone Knife, Combat Knife, Butcher Knife, Vampire Stake, Skinning Knife, Frontier Hatchet, Prototype Hatchet, Abyss Metal Hatchet, Obsidian Bone Knife and Sunken Combat Knife.

Mace column: also Machete, Longsword, Baseball Bat, Salvaged Sword and Salvaged Cleaver.

Jackhammer column: also Stone Pickaxe, Salvaged Icepick and Concrete Pickaxe.

Chainsaw column: also Kreig Chainsword.

Stone Hatchet column: also Concrete Hatchet.

Rock column: also Skull, Bone Club, Jungle Rock and Candy Cane Club.

Pickaxe column: also Salvaged Hammer, Prototype Pickaxe and Abyss Metal Pickaxe.

Every animal, with its health and what it drops

What you pick up on the map to get Bone Fragments

Name	You get
Bones, Halloween event	30

Everything on the map you can pick up

Bone Fragments from breaking down other items

From	You get	Chance
Human Skull	20	Every time
Small Shark	20	Every time
Wolf Skull	20	Every time
Catfish	18	Every time
Orange Roughy	18	Every time
Salmon	16	Every time
Yellow Perch	6	Every time
Small Trout	5	Every time
Anchovy	2	Every time
Herring	1	Every time
Sardine	1	Every time

Bone Fragments recycling

16 items give back Bone Fragments in a recycler

Item	Red recycler	Green recycler (powered)	Green recycler	Yellow recycler
Bone Armor	52 + 50%	42	35	28
Xylobone	37 + 50%	30	25	20
Bone Helmet	22 + 50%	18	15	12
Bone Knife	22 + 50%	18	15	12
Frontier Horns Single Item Rack	22 + 50%	18	15	12
Heavy Frankenstein Head	22 + 50%	18	15	12
Heavy Frankenstein Legs	22 + 50%	18	15	12
Heavy Frankenstein Torso	22 + 50%	18	15	12
Bone Club	15	12	10	8
Light Frankenstein Head	15	12	10	8
Light Frankenstein Legs	15	12	10	8
Light Frankenstein Torso	15	12	10	8
Medium Frankenstein Head	15	12	10	8
Medium Frankenstein Legs	15	12	10	8
Medium Frankenstein Torso	15	12	10	8
Bone Arrow	2 + 50%	2	1 + 67%	1 + 33%

What one of each item gives back in Bone Fragments, in perfect condition, most first by the green recycler’s figure. “52 + 50%” means 52 every time and a 50% chance of one more.

Composting

Composts into: 0.25 fertilizer, bait value 0

Used to craft (7)

Bone Fragments stats, mechanics, and overview in Rust

In Rust, Bone Fragments is a resource in the Resources category (item ID #1719978075, console shortname bone.fragments). In active play, they follow standard server rules for resource gear across procedural maps. Inventory storage stacks up to 1,000 units per slot, and uncollected ground drops despawn after 5 minutes.

Extracted from animal carcass. Used as a raw material to make bone weapons and armour.

Acquisition profile (game files): Uncraftable in vanilla Rust (0 loot tables, 7 downstream recipes)
Monument recycling yield: Non-recyclable at green, yellow, or red units (7 downstream recipes)
Maintenance rule: Carries no condition wear bar and needs no bench maintenance
Conveyor & sorting profile: Filter by shortname bone.fragments in Industrial Conveyors for automated box sorting

Bone Fragments crafting, blueprint progression, and recycling in Rust

In Rust, Bone Fragments have no player crafting recipe; acquisition relies on map collection, smelting, or vendor trades read from the Rust game files. Monument recyclers do not break this item down into raw components, while 7 downstream crafting recipes use it. Equipped and stored units carry no durability wear bar.

How Bone Fragments compares to related resources in Rust

When comparing Bone Fragments against related resources 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
Bone Fragments	Resources	1,000 per slot	World loot / gather	No blueprint	Not recyclable
Metal Fragments	Resources	1,000 per slot	World loot / gather	No blueprint	Not recyclable
Plant Fiber	Resources	1,000 per slot	World loot / gather	No blueprint	Not recyclable
Sulfur Ore	Resources	1,000 per slot	World loot / gather	No blueprint	Not recyclable

Frequently asked questions about Bone Fragments in Rust

Where do you find Bone Fragments in Rust?

On the map, Bone Fragments are harvested from 14 animals (Bear, Boar, Bull and 11 more) and picked up from Bones in Rust. They come from breaking down 11 items. They sit in the Resources catalog with item ID 1719978075 alongside 35 related resources.

What are Bone Fragments used for in Rust?

In Rust, Bone Fragments belong to the Resources category under numeric ID 1719978075 (shortname bone.fragments) and stack to 1,000 units per slot across 36 published Resources entries. They go into 7 recipes, 2 of them attire and as many weapons, such as the Bone Armor.

How long do Bone Fragments take to despawn in Rust?

Dropped on the ground in Rust, Bone Fragments despawn after 5 minutes by default. Moving them 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.

What is the stack size of Bone Fragments in Rust?

Bone Fragments stack to 1,000 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 5 minutes under the Resources category (item ID 1719978075).

What is the item ID for Bone Fragments in Rust?

Bone Fragments have 32-bit signed item ID 1719978075 and shortname bone.fragments in Rust. Server plugins, custom loot tables, Vending Machine listings, and automated Industrial Conveyor filter strings reference these two identifiers under the Resources category (stack limit 1,000 units per slot).

What is the give command for Bone Fragments in Rust?

Server administrators in Rust spawn Bone Fragments in the F1 developer console with inventory.give bone.fragments 1,000 or inventory.giveid 1719978075 1,000 for 1,000 units. Both console spawn commands work only on dedicated or local worlds where your Steam account holds administrator or moderator privileges.