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The Mini Crossbow fires Wooden Arrows and three other ammo types from a 4-round magazine and takes two attachments at once.
Damage is one body hit with 
Wooden Arrow, up close.
What one batch takes.
Wood
Metal Fragments
Rope
Gears
The same recipe expanded until every line is something you gather, smelt or loot.
Wood
Metal Fragments
Scrap
Rope
Wood
Metal Fragments
Rope
Gears
Copy it, then hold Shift and click Paste (JSON) in the conveyor, in game.
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"BufferAmount": 0,
"MinAmountInInput": 0,
"IsBlueprint": false,
"TargetItemName": "wood"
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"TargetCategory": null,
"MaxAmountInOutput": 150,
"BufferAmount": 0,
"MinAmountInInput": 0,
"IsBlueprint": false,
"TargetItemName": "metal.fragments"
},
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"TargetCategory": null,
"MaxAmountInOutput": 1,
"BufferAmount": 0,
"MinAmountInInput": 0,
"IsBlueprint": false,
"TargetItemName": "rope"
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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.
Researching the blueprint costs 30 scrap at a Research Table.
| Ammo | Damage | Headshot | Velocity | Damage per second |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bone Arrow | 40 | ×1.5 | 49.5 m/s | 12 |
Fire Arrow | 40, +20 within 3 m | ×1.5 | 44 m/s | 18 |
High Velocity Arrow | 40 | ×1.5 | 88 m/s | 12 |
|
Wooden Arrow | 50 | ×1.5 | 55 m/s | 15 |
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 Mini Crossbow, most likely first
| From | Chance | Amount | Condition |
|---|---|---|---|
 Sunken Chest | 1.1% | 1 | 20 to 50% |
 Normal Crate | 0.44% | 1 | 20 to 50% |
 Wagon Normal Crate | 0.44% | 1 | 20 to 50% |
Scientist | 0.16% | 1 | 100% |
Tunnel Dweller and Underwater Dweller | 0.16% | 1 | 100% |
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 Mini Crossbow gives back in each recycler
| Recycler | Efficiency | You get |
|---|---|---|
| Red recycler | 75% | 75% Gears, 112 + 50% Metal Fragments, 75% Rope, 150 Wood |
| Green recycler (powered) | 60% | 60% Gears, 90 Metal Fragments, 60% Rope, 120 Wood |
| Green recycler | 50% | 50% Gears, 75 Metal Fragments, 50% Rope, 100 Wood |
| Yellow recycler | 40% | 40% Gears, 60 Metal Fragments, 40% Rope, 80 Wood |
The Mini Crossbow breaks down into Gears, 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. “112 + 50%” means 112 every time and a 50% chance of one more, and a percentage alone is the chance of getting one.
In Rust, Mini Crossbow is a ranged weapon in the Weapons category (item ID #-482348853, console shortname minicrossbow). Loaded with standard Wooden Arrow, it delivers 50 base impact damage from a 4-round magazine in active combat. Inventory storage holds a single unit per slot, and uncollected ground drops despawn after 20 minutes.
A very accurate ranged weapon with a rotating barrel.
Crafting Mini Crossbow in Rust takes 15 seconds at a Workbench Level 1 once the 30 scrap blueprint node is unlocked, 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 Mini Crossbow holds 4 rounds, as does the Bolt Action Rifle.
When choosing between Mini Crossbow and related weapons in Rust, prioritize researching a looted or traded copy at a Research Table (30 scrap) whenever you want to skip the 255-scrap tech tree path and save 225 scrap, or unlock the tech tree branch when your group also needs the prerequisite blueprints.
| Weapon | Damage | Fire Rate | Sustained DPS | Workbench / Source | Blueprint (Node / Path) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mini Crossbow | 50 dmg | 60 RPM | 15.2 DPS | Workbench Level 1 | 30 node / 255 path |
| 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 Mini Crossbow with closely related ranged weapon sheets in the Rust item catalog:
To compare Mini Crossbow against every item in its inventory category, browse All 85 items in Weapons, or plan prerequisite scrap paths on the The Workbench Level 1 tech tree, tile by tile.
Loaded with standard ammunition, the Mini Crossbow deals 50 base damage per hit up to a 60 RPM semi-automatic ceiling (15.2 sustained DPS) in Rust, dropping to 80% damage past 48 m. It belongs to the Weapons category under numeric ID -482348853 across 85 weapons.
The Mini Crossbow fires Bone Arrows, Fire Arrows, High Velocity Arrows and Wooden Arrows, 4 rounds to a magazine in Rust. Reloading takes 10.2 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 Mini 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 Mini Crossbow is crafted at a Workbench Level 1 from 200 Wood, 150 Metal Fragments, 1 Rope and 1 Gears, once the blueprint is learned in Rust. Non-craftable components like Rope must be looted from monument crates or recycled gear before queuing the craft at your bench.
The Mini Crossbow drops from 5 container and NPC loot tables in Rust, led by Sunken Chest (1.1% chance), Normal Crate (0.44% chance), and Wagon Normal Crate (0.44% chance). Each listed probability reflects a single container opened or NPC killed, and found copies can be repaired or researched at base.
The Mini Crossbow recycles in Rust at an unpowered green recycler into a 50% chance of Gears, 75 Metal Fragments, a 50% chance of a Rope and 100 Wood. Undamaged copies return the full listed yield, whereas worn items scale their recycler output down in proportion to remaining durability.
A repair bench fixes the Mini Crossbow from broken for 40 Wood, 35 Metal Fragments and 6 Cloth in Rust. Repairing at a Repair Bench requires no learned blueprint, scales material cost by missing durability, and reduces maximum condition by 20% across a full durability bar.
Dropped with nothing attached or inside in Rust, the Mini 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 Mini Crossbow has 32-bit signed item ID -482348853 and shortname minicrossbow 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 Mini Crossbow in the F1 developer console by typing inventory.give minicrossbow 1 or inventory.giveid -482348853 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.