Rust Components: Full List, Recycle Values, Crafting & Where to Find (2026)

Every gun, door, rocket and turret in Rust is built from the same pile of grey loot: components. Gears, metal springs, pipes, tech trash, rifle bodies and the rest do nothing on their own. They sit in the middle of the crafting chain, between the raw resources you farm and the gear you actually use, and they are almost always the thing you run out of first.

This Rust components guide is the hub for all of them. It lists every component in the game, what each one builds, where it drops, which ones you can craft, and exactly what each gives back in a recycler after the Power Trip changes. Every component with its own full guide on this site is linked, so you can jump straight to the detail.

Want the totals for a whole loot run? Paste it into our Rust crafting and recycle calculator to see the scrap, HQM and fragments at every recycler.

• What They Are
• Full List
• Common vs Rare
• Recycle Values
• Crafting
• Gun Parts
• Raid & Base Parts
• Where to Farm
• Engine Parts & Fuses
• Keep or Recycle
• FAQ

What Are Components in Rust?

Components are a whole item category in Rust, with their own tab in your inventory filter. The game uses them as the middle layer of crafting. You gather metal fragments, high quality metal and cloth yourself, but the parts that make an item powerful, the spring in a gun, the gears in a door, the tech trash in C4, have to come from the world.

That is a deliberate brake on progression. A solo with a full box of sulfur still cannot rocket a base without metal pipes, and a group with a Workbench 3 still cannot craft an AK without a rifle body. Components force you to go out, run roads, hit monuments and take fights.

Three rules apply to every component:

• They are ingredients only. You cannot equip, place or use a component directly.
• They recycle. Every component breaks down in a recycler into scrap, fragments, HQM, cloth or other components.
• They wipe. Like all loot, every component is gone at the force wipe, so a hoard is only worth what you spend before then.

Every Rust Component: Full List

Here is every core component, what it is mainly used for, the best place to get it, and what one gives back in a green monument recycler with the Power Plant grid powered (60%). Click a name for the full guide where we have one.

Yields are per single item. With the Power Plant offline (every wipe start) a green recycler pays about a sixth less, a safe zone recycler at Outpost or Bandit Camp pays two thirds of the numbers above, and the red recycler at the Power Plant pays a quarter more. Our recycler guide has the full safe zone column.

Common Components vs Rare Components

Components fall into two clear groups, and knowing which group an item is in tells you where to look for it and how much it is worth.

Common components come out of the blue and yellow barrels along every road, plus toolboxes and basic crates. Gears, springs, pipes, blades, sheet metal, road signs, tarps, rope, sewing kits and propane tanks are all in this group. A ten minute road run usually fills a few slots with them, which is why they are also the cheapest ones to recycle.

Rare components mostly come from military crates, elite crates, locked crates and scientists. Rifle bodies, SMG bodies, tech trash, targeting computers, CCTV cameras and Heavy Fuses live here. They are the real progression gate: you can have every blueprint and still be stuck on Thompsons because nobody brought home a rifle body.

Rust Component Recycle Values

If you are recycling for scrap, only a handful of components matter. This is the scrap you get per item, best first, at a powered green recycler.

Can You Craft Components in Rust?

Some of them, and it is almost always a bad deal. The cheap barrel components have a workbench recipe that costs scrap and metal, so you can make one in an emergency. The rare ones have no recipe at all.

Recipes for the craftable ones still need the blueprint, either from the tech tree or a research table. Since the Pivot or Die update in November 2025, research and tech tree nodes cost 15, 30, 60 or 120 scrap depending on tier.

Gun Components: Bodies, Springs and Pipes

Every craftable firearm past the pipe shotgun needs a body, and almost every one needs a spring. The body decides which gun you can make.

Springs are the second gate. The Thompson and Custom SMG need one, the MP5A4 needs two, and rifles need more. Pipes show up in pistols and in every rocket. If you are planning a gun craft, count bodies first, springs second, and HQM last.

Raid and Base Components

The other big drain is your base and your raids. A handful of components decide whether you can lock a door, run a turret or blow a wall.

• C4: every Timed Explosive Charge needs 2 tech trash. A sheet metal wall takes 4 C4, so 8 tech trash a wall.
• Rockets: every rocket needs 2 metal pipes, and the Rocket Launcher needs 4. See all explosives for full raid costs.
• Doors: the garage door costs 2 gears and the armored door 5 more, which is why gears vanish early wipe.
• Turrets: the Auto Turret needs a targeting computer, a CCTV camera and 25 HQM. The flame turret uses propane tanks and a gear instead.
• Armor: the Hazmat Suit takes 5 tarps and 2 sewing kits, and road sign and metal armor lives on sewing kits and road signs.

Where to Farm Components in Rust

There is no single best spot, because different components drop in different places. Match the run to what you are short of.

Always carry your component haul to a recycler at a green monument rather than a safe zone if you can survive the walk. At 60% versus 40% a full inventory of rifle bodies and tech trash is hundreds of scrap apart.

Engine Parts and Fuses

Two smaller families also sit in the component tab:

• Engine parts: carburetors, crankshafts, pistons, spark plugs and valves, each in low, medium and high quality. They go into the engine modules of modular cars, and better parts mean more speed and better fuel use. They drop from crates and barrels.
• Fuses: the classic Electric Fuse powers keycard puzzles at monuments like the blue card rooms, while the Heavy Fuse from the August 2026 Power Trip update feeds the Power Plant grid that turns green recyclers up to 60%.

Keep or Recycle? Component Cheat Sheet

• Always keep: gears, metal springs, metal pipes and tech trash. These four gate doors, guns, rockets and C4, and they are the slowest to replace.
• Keep a few: sewing kits, tarps, road signs and one electric fuse. Enough for your armor set and one puzzle run.
• Recycle spares: rifle bodies, SMG bodies and semi bodies once your gun count is where you want it, plus sheet metal for the 120 fragments.
• Leave on the ground: metal blades and empty propane tanks on a long run. They are not worth a slot unless a recycler is right there.
• Spend before wipe: components do not survive a force wipe. Craft or recycle your stash before the server resets.

Rust Components FAQ

Sources

• Facepunch Rust Wiki: Gears (component item pages and recycle outputs)
• Physgun Rust item database (live game data, 2026 build)
• GameServerKings: Rust recycle chart after Power Trip
• Facepunch: Rust news and update notes
• Rustafied: Component system guide