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The Garry's Mod Tool Gun is sold on its own in the item store.
What one batch takes.
Wood
Metal Fragments
Wood
Metal Fragments
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": "wood"
},
{
"TargetCategory": null,
"MaxAmountInOutput": 20,
"BufferAmount": 0,
"MinAmountInInput": 0,
"IsBlueprint": false,
"TargetItemName": "metal.fragments"
}
]
No workbench, 15s, yields 1
Faster at a higher workbench: 7.5s at Workbench Level 1, 3.75s at Workbench Level 2 or 3.
What the Garry's Mod Tool Gun gives back in each recycler
| Recycler | Efficiency | You get |
|---|---|---|
| Red recycler | 75% | 15 Metal Fragments, 75 Wood |
| Green recycler (powered) | 60% | 12 Metal Fragments, 60 Wood |
| Green recycler | 50% | 10 Metal Fragments, 50 Wood |
| Yellow recycler | 40% | 8 Metal Fragments, 40 Wood |
The Garry's Mod Tool Gun breaks down into Metal Fragments 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.
In Rust, Garry's Mod Tool Gun is a tool in the Tools category (item ID #1803831286, console shortname toolgun). In active play, it follows standard server rules for tool gear across procedural maps. Inventory storage holds a single unit per slot, and uncollected ground drops despawn after 5 minutes.
Celebrating 15 Years of Garry's Mod! Use this tool gun to upgrade building parts. Right-click for the options. You can also pick up deployed objects while the hammer is equipped.
Crafting Garry's Mod Tool Gun 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). Equipped and stored units carry no durability wear bar.
When comparing Garry's Mod Tool Gun against related tools 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garry's Mod Tool Gun | Tools | 1 per slot | Crafted by hand | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
| Hammer | Tools | 1 per slot | Crafted by hand | 10 scrap (Table) | Not recyclable |
| Camera | Tools | 1 per slot | World loot / gather | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
| Geiger Counter | Tools | 1 per slot | World loot / gather | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
Compare Garry's Mod Tool Gun with closely related tool sheets in the Rust item catalog:
To compare Garry's Mod Tool Gun against every item in its inventory category, browse All 36 items in Tools.
The Garry's Mod Tool Gun is crafted by hand from 100 Wood and 20 Metal Fragments 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 Garry's Mod Tool Gun recycles in Rust at an unpowered green recycler into 10 Metal Fragments and 50 Wood. 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 Garry's Mod Tool Gun takes 15 seconds to craft, down to 3.75 seconds at Workbench Level 2 or 3 in Rust. It is indexed under the Tools category alongside 35 other tools in Rust (item ID 1803831286), stacking to 1 unit per slot.
Dropped on the ground in Rust, the Garry's Mod Tool Gun 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 Garry's Mod Tool Gun has 32-bit signed item ID 1803831286 and shortname toolgun in Rust. Server plugins, custom loot tables, Vending Machine listings, and automated Industrial Conveyor filter strings reference these two identifiers under the Tools category (stack limit 1 unit per slot).
Server administrators in Rust spawn the Garry's Mod Tool Gun in the F1 developer console by typing inventory.give toolgun 1 or inventory.giveid 1803831286 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.