Basic Crate Loot Table
Every item that can be in a Basic Crate, with the chance it's there and how many. Measured by having the game fill it 50,000 times on a vanilla server and counting what came out.
- Items per container
- about 2.5
- Common drops (1%+)
- 32
- Health
- 250
- Times filled
- 50,000
Worth Looting?
- Scrap
- about 3.0
- High quality metal
- about 0.0
- Components
- none
- Weapons
- 1 in 21
One container is worth about 3.0 scrap on average at a monument recycler. That's about 334 containers for 1,000 scrap, and #27 of 43 containers in the value ranking.
Other recyclers: Safe Zone 40% about 3 · Powered 60% about 3 · Red 75% about 3. Components and weapons show how often one turns up: "1 in 5" means one in every five containers, on average.
Always Inside
Every Drop
Showing 32 of 32. Click a column to sort.
 Scrap | 100% | 3 |
 Mail Box | 4.9% | 1-2 |
 Table | 4.9% | 1-2 |
 Rug | 4.9% | 1-2 |
 Baseball Cap | 4.9% | 1-2 |
 Boonie Hat | 4.9% | 1-2 |
 Wooden Barricade | 4.9% | 1-2 |
 Large Wooden Sign | 4.9% | 1-2 |
 Beenie Hat | 4.9% | 1-2 |
 Water Bucket | 4.9% | 1-2 |
 Large Planter Box | 4.8% | 1-2 |
 Shorts | 4.8% | 1-2 |
 Tank Top | 4.8% | 1-2 |
 Tuna Can Lamp | 4.8% | 1-2 |
 Water Barrel | 4.8% | 1-2 |
 Wooden Floor Spikes | 4.8% | 1-2 |
 Improvised Balaclava | 4.8% | 1-2 |
 Triangle Planter Box | 4.8% | 1-2 |
 Salvaged Shelves | 4.8% | 1-2 |
 Stone Barricade | 4.8% | 1-2 |
 Binoculars | 4.8% | 1-2 |
 Wood Shutters | 4.8% | 1-2 |
 Stone Fireplace | 4.7% | 1-2 |
 Wooden Barricade Cover | 4.7% | 1-2 |
 Huge Wooden Sign | 4.7% | 1-2 |
 Igniter | 4.7% | 1-2 |
 Paddle | 4.7% | 1-2 |
 Acoustic Guitar | 4.7% | 1-2 |
 Bandana Mask | 4.7% | 1-2 |
 Leather Gloves | 4.7% | 1-2 |
 Spinning Wheel | 4.7% | 1-2 |
 Bear Skin Rug | 4.6% | 1-2 |
32 different items turned up across all 50,000 fills. Most are rare: one container holds about 2.5 of them.
Found at These Monuments
How many were standing in one copy of the monument at scan time; respawns vary.
Other Crates
Questions
What can you get from a Basic Crate in Rust?
The most likely drops are Scrap (100%), Mail Box (4.9%), Table (4.9%), Rug (4.9%) and Baseball Cap (4.9%). One container holds about 2.5 different items, and 32 different items showed up over 50,000 fills.
How much scrap is a Basic Crate worth?
About 3.0 scrap on average at a monument recycler (50%), counting the scrap inside and what its components recycle into. That's about 334 containers for 1,000 scrap.
Can a Basic Crate drop guns?
Yes, a weapon turns up in about 1 of every 21 containers. The most likely are Paddle (4.7%).
Where can you find a Basic Crate?
Most at Giant Excavator Pit (about 1), Abandoned Supermarket (about 1) and Mining Outpost (about 1), counted in one copy of each monument.
Chance is per container: how often the item is in it at all. Amount is the range seen when it is. Server owners can change loot, so modded servers may differ.