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A repair bench brings the Crossbow back from broken for 40 Wood, 15 Metal Fragments and 12 Cloth.
Damage is one body hit with 
Wooden Arrow, up close.
What one batch takes.
Wood
Metal Fragments
Rope
Wood
Metal Fragments
Rope
Copy it, then hold Shift and click Paste (JSON) in the conveyor, in game.
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"IsBlueprint": false,
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Workbench Level 1, 15s, yields 1
Faster at a higher workbench: 7.5s at Workbench Level 2, 3.75s at Workbench Level 3.
Every player starts with this blueprint. Researching it anyway costs 10 scrap at a Research Table.
| Ammo | Damage | Headshot | Velocity | Damage per second |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bone Arrow | 48 | ×1.5 | 67.5 m/s | 13 |
Fire Arrow | 48, +20 within 3 m | ×1.5 | 60 m/s | 19 |
High Velocity Arrow | 48 | ×1.5 | 120 m/s | 13 |
|
Wooden Arrow | 60 | ×1.5 | 75 m/s | 17 |
Damage is one body hit up close, with no armour. A headshot multiplies it against players only. Damage per second empties one magazine and counts the reload. Velocity and spread are applied locally by your game client, while the server bounds their limits.
Sight
8x Zoom Scope
Holosight: -20% Spread aiming down sights
Simple Handmade Sight
Variable Zoom ScopeUnderbarrel
Weapon flashlight
Weapon Lasersight: -20% Spread aiming down sights, -50% Spread from the hip, while switched onCrates, barrels and NPCs that drop the Crossbow, most likely first
| From | Chance | Amount | Condition |
|---|---|---|---|
 Tool Box | 2.5% | 1 | 20 to 50% |
 Sunken Crate | 1.6% | 1 | 20 to 50% |
Chance is for one container opened or one NPC killed. Amount is how many it holds when it holds any. Condition is the state the item comes out in.
Wood,
Metal Fragments, 
ClothA 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.
What the Crossbow gives back in each recycler
| Recycler | Efficiency | You get |
|---|---|---|
| Red recycler | 75% | 56 + 25% Metal Fragments, 1 + 50% Rope, 150 Wood |
| Green recycler (powered) | 60% | 45 Metal Fragments, 1 + 20% Rope, 120 Wood |
| Green recycler | 50% | 37 + 50% Metal Fragments, 1 Rope, 100 Wood |
| Yellow recycler | 40% | 30 Metal Fragments, 80% Rope, 80 Wood |
The Crossbow breaks down into Metal Fragments, Rope 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. “56 + 25%” means 56 every time and a 25% chance of one more, and a percentage alone is the chance of getting one.
On the Steam Market, the 83 skins for the Crossbow sell for $0.80 at the cheapest and $19.87 at the dearest.
Also listed: 4 Twitch and Kick drops, marked “Drop”. They never reach the market, so they have no price.
Only the skins of
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In Rust, Crossbow is a ranged weapon in the Weapons category (item ID #1965232394, console shortname crossbow). Loaded with standard Wooden Arrow, it delivers 60 base impact damage from a single-round chamber in active combat. Inventory storage holds a single unit per slot, and uncollected ground drops despawn after 20 minutes.
A very accurate ranged weapon.
Crafting Crossbow 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 Crossbow against related weapons 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.
| Weapon | Damage | Fire Rate | Sustained DPS | Workbench / Source | Blueprint (Node / Path) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crossbow | 60 dmg | 3.6s cycle | 16.7 DPS | Workbench Level 1 | 10 scrap (Table) |
| LR-300 Assault Rifle | 40 dmg | 500 RPM | 160.4 DPS | Military crate / Vendor | Uncraftable |
| Semi-Automatic Rifle | 40 dmg | 343 RPM | 91.1 DPS | Workbench Level 2 | 60 node / 930 path |
| MP5A4 | 37.5 dmg | 600 RPM | 163 DPS | Workbench Level 3 | 120 node / 420 path |
Compare Crossbow with closely related ranged weapon sheets in the Rust item catalog:
To compare Crossbow against every item in its inventory category, browse All 85 items in Weapons.
Loaded with standard ammunition, the Crossbow deals 60 base damage per hit, firing once every 3.6 seconds (16.7 sustained DPS) in Rust, dropping to 80% damage past 90 m. Against a fifty-percent projectile-protection Metal Chest Plate, close torso hits deal thirty net damage and down a full-health player in four shots.
The Crossbow fires Bone Arrows, Fire Arrows, High Velocity Arrows and Wooden Arrows, reloading after every shot in Rust. Reloading takes 3.6 seconds (1.6s draw time), and holding the reload key (R) opens the radial selector to switch ammunition types.
Up to 2 weapon mods equip simultaneously on the Crossbow in Rust across 6 compatible attachments (2 mod categories): sight (8x Zoom Scope, Holosight, Simple Handmade Sight, Variable Zoom Scope); underbarrel (Weapon flashlight, Weapon Lasersight). Players drag compatible weapon mods directly onto the weapon inspection slots in their inventory to adjust sights, muzzle acoustics, or underbarrel lighting.
The Crossbow is crafted at a Workbench Level 1 from 200 Wood, 75 Metal Fragments and 2 Rope in Rust. Non-craftable components like Rope must be looted from monument crates or recycled gear before queuing the craft at your bench.
The Crossbow drops from 2 container and NPC loot tables in Rust, led by Tool Box (2.5% chance) and Sunken Crate (1.6% chance). Each listed probability reflects a single container opened or NPC killed, and found copies can be repaired or researched at base.
The Crossbow recycles in Rust at an unpowered green recycler into 37 Metal Fragments plus a 50% chance of one more, 1 Rope and 100 Wood. Undamaged copies return the full listed yield, whereas worn items scale their recycler output down in proportion to remaining durability.
Every player starts with the Crossbow blueprint, so it never needs researching; a Research Table would still charge 10 scrap for it in Rust. It belongs to the Weapons category under numeric ID 1965232394 across 85 weapons, with F1 console command inventory.giveid 1965232394 1.
Dropped with nothing attached or inside in Rust, the Crossbow despawns after 20 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 Crossbow has 32-bit signed item ID 1965232394 and shortname crossbow in Rust. Server plugins, custom loot tables, Vending Machine listings, and automated Industrial Conveyor filter strings reference these two identifiers under the Weapons category (stack limit 1 unit per slot).
Server administrators in Rust spawn the Crossbow in the F1 developer console by typing inventory.give crossbow 1 or inventory.giveid 1965232394 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.
