Excavator Scientist Loot Table

Every item an Excavator Scientist can drop, with the chance it's there and how many. Measured by having the game fill its loot 50,000 times on a vanilla server and counting what came out.

Items per body: about 2.5
Common drops (1%+): 22
Times filled: 50,000

Worth Looting?

Scrap: about 8.0
High quality metal: about 1.3
Components: 1 in 2
Weapons: 1 in 23

One body is worth about 8.0 scrap on average at a monument recycler. That's about 125 bodies for 1,000 scrap, and #3 of 14 NPCs in the value ranking.

Other recyclers: Safe Zone 40% about 6 · Powered 60% about 10 · Red 75% about 12. Components and weapons show how often one turns up: "1 in 5" means one in every five bodies, on average.

Every Drop

Showing 211 of 211. Click a column to sort.


Pistol Bullet	52%	15-45
5.56 Rifle Ammo	51%	12-36
Medical Syringe	34%	1-2
Bandage	17%	1
12 Gauge Buckshot	7.9%	6-12
Metal Pipe	7.5%	1-9
Electric Fuse	4.9%	1
12 Gauge Slug	4.9%	4-8
Gears	4.9%	2
12 Gauge Incendiary Shell	4.8%	4-14
Road Signs	4.8%	2-3
Semi Automatic Body	4.8%	1
Metal Spring	4.8%	1
Sheet Metal	4.5%	1
SMG Body	3.4%	1
Tech Trash	3.0%	2-3
High Quality Metal	3.0%	15-24
Rifle Body	2.2%	1
Hazmat Suit	1.8%	1-2
Targeting Computer	1.6%	1-2
CCTV Camera	1.4%	1
Incendiary Pistol Bullet	1.0%	10
Incendiary 5.56 Rifle Ammo	0.5%	8
HV Pistol Ammo	0.4%	10
Supply Signal	0.4%	1
Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo	0.3%	8
Auto Turret	0.2%	1
HV 5.56 Rifle Ammo	0.2%	10
Weapon flashlight	0.2%	1
Chainlink Fence Gate	0.2%	1
Combat Knife	0.2%	1
Longsleeve T-Shirt	0.2%	1
Bucket Helmet	0.2%	1
Chainlink Fence	0.2%	1
Floor triangle grill	0.2%	1
Riot Helmet	0.2%	1
Snow Jacket	0.2%	1
Beancan Grenade	0.2%	1
Beehive	0.2%	1
Ceiling Light	0.2%	1
Chair	0.2%	1
Cooking Workbench	0.2%	1
Door Controller	0.2%	1
Electrical Branch	0.2%	1
Flare	0.2%	4-5
High External Wooden Gate	0.2%	1
Industrial Combiner	0.2%	1
Mace	0.2%	1
Pants	0.2%	1
Reactive Target	0.2%	1
Shotgun Trap	0.2%	1
Snap Trap	0.2%	1
Sprinkler	0.2%	1
Tin Can Alarm	0.2%	1
Blocker	0.2%	1
Boomerang	0.2%	1
Chicken Coop	0.2%	1
Fluid Combiner	0.2%	1
Fluid Splitter	0.2%	1
Industrial Splitter	0.2%	1
Large Solar Panel	0.2%	1
Miners Hat	0.2%	1
Mini Crossbow	0.2%	1
Mixing Table	0.2%	1
Pressure Pad	0.2%	1
Prisoner Hood	0.2%	1
Shirt	0.2%	1
Small Water Catcher	0.2%	1
Switch	0.2%	1
Watch Tower	0.2%	1
XOR Switch	0.2%	1
Barbed Wooden Barricade	0.2%	1
Bee Grenade	0.2%	1
Button	0.2%	1
Drop Box	0.2%	1
Electric Heater	0.2%	1
Flame Turret	0.2%	1
Fluid Switch & Pump	0.2%	1
Fridge	0.2%	1
Handmade SMG	0.2%	1
High External Wooden Wall	0.2%	1
Hopper	0.2%	1
Jacket	0.2%	1
Pickaxe	0.2%	1
Satchel Charge	0.2%	1
Small Rechargeable Battery	0.2%	1
Speargun	0.2%	1
Splitter	0.2%	1
Storage Adaptor	0.2%	1
Timer	0.2%	1
Waterpipe Shotgun	0.2%	1
Wooden Armor Insert	0.2%	1
Bed	0.1%	1
Double Barrel Shotgun	0.1%	1
Flasher Light	0.1%	1
Floor grill	0.1%	1
Metal Detector	0.1%	1
OR Switch	0.1%	1
Revolver	0.1%	1
Salvaged Hammer	0.1%	1
Salvaged Sword	0.1%	1
Sandbag Barricade	0.1%	4
Telephone	0.1%	1
Audio Alarm	0.1%	1
Engineering Workbench	0.1%	1
Hatchet	0.1%	1
Industrial Conveyor	0.1%	1
Reinforced Wooden Shield	0.1%	1
Root Combiner	0.1%	1
Salvaged Cleaver	0.1%	1
Siren Light	0.1%	1
Compound Bow	0.1%	1
Hot Air Balloon Armor	0.1%	1
Kayak	0.1%	1
Metal Window Bars	0.1%	1
Siege Tower	0.1%	1
Wooden Ladder	0.1%	1
T-Shirt	0.1%	1
Heavy Plate Jacket	0.1%	1
High Caliber Revolver	0.1%	1
Mounted Ballista	0.1%	1
Drone	under 0.1%	1
F1 Grenade	under 0.1%	1
Flashbang	under 0.1%	1
High Quality Horse Shoes	under 0.1%	1
Industrial Crafter	under 0.1%	1
Ladder Hatch	under 0.1%	1
Longsword	under 0.1%	1
Powered Water Purifier	under 0.1%	1
Prison Cell Gate	under 0.1%	1
Road Sign Jacket	under 0.1%	1
Roadsign Horse Armor	under 0.1%	1
Rocket Launcher	under 0.1%	1
Semi-Automatic Rifle	under 0.1%	1
Storage Monitor	under 0.1%	1
Triangle Ladder Hatch	under 0.1%	1
AND Switch	under 0.1%	1
Asbestos Armor Insert	under 0.1%	1
Boots	under 0.1%	1
Catapult	under 0.1%	1
Concrete Barricade	under 0.1%	1
Counter	under 0.1%	1
Electric Furnace	under 0.1%	1
Garage Door	under 0.1%	1
Gas Compression Overdrive	under 0.1%	1
High External Stone Gate	under 0.1%	1
Holosight	under 0.1%	1
Homemade Landmine	under 0.1%	1
Large Rechargeable Battery	under 0.1%	1
Laser Detector	under 0.1%	1
Metal horizontal embrasure	under 0.1%	1
Metal Vertical embrasure	under 0.1%	1
Modular Car Lift	under 0.1%	1
Molotov Cocktail	under 0.1%	1
Muzzle Boost	under 0.1%	1
RF Broadcaster	under 0.1%	1
RF Receiver	under 0.1%	1
RF Transmitter	under 0.1%	1
Seismic Sensor	under 0.1%	1
Smart Switch	under 0.1%	1
Smoke Grenade	under 0.1%	1
Strengthened Glass Window	under 0.1%	1
Wind Turbine	under 0.1%	1
Battering Ram	under 0.1%	1
Chainsaw	under 0.1%	1
Coffee Can Helmet	under 0.1%	1
Computer Station	under 0.1%	1
Custom SMG	under 0.1%	1
Diver propulsion vehicle	under 0.1%	1
Extended Magazine	under 0.1%	1
Handcuffs	under 0.1%	1
HBHF Sensor	under 0.1%	1
Hoodie	under 0.1%	1
Large Medkit	under 0.1%	1
Large Water Catcher	under 0.1%	1
Lead Armor Insert	under 0.1%	1
Medium Rechargeable Battery	under 0.1%	1
Memory Cell	under 0.1%	1
Metal Barricade	under 0.1%	1
Metal Shield	under 0.1%	1
Muzzle Brake	under 0.1%	1
Night Vision Goggles	under 0.1%	1
Parachute	under 0.1%	1
Prison Cell Wall	under 0.1%	1
Pump Shotgun	under 0.1%	1
Python Revolver	under 0.1%	1
Salvaged Axe	under 0.1%	1
Search Light	under 0.1%	1
Small Generator	under 0.1%	1
Tesla Coil	under 0.1%	1
Ballista	under 0.1%	1
Elevator	under 0.1%	1
Flame Thrower	under 0.1%	1
Heavy Plate Helmet	under 0.1%	1
Heavy Plate Pants	under 0.1%	1
High External Stone Wall	under 0.1%	1
Homing Missile Launcher	under 0.1%	1
Locker	under 0.1%	1
PTZ CCTV Camera	under 0.1%	1
RAND Switch	under 0.1%	1
RF Pager	under 0.1%	1
Road Sign Gloves	under 0.1%	1
Road Sign Kilt	under 0.1%	1
Salvaged Icepick	under 0.1%	1
Semi-Automatic Pistol	under 0.1%	1
Small Oil Refinery	under 0.1%	1
Smart Alarm	under 0.1%	1
Thompson	under 0.1%	1
Water Pump	under 0.1%	1
Digital Clock	under 0.1%	1
Large Furnace	under 0.1%	1

211 different items turned up across all 50,000 fills. Most are rare: one body holds about 2.5 of them.

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Questions

What does an Excavator Scientist drop in Rust?

The most likely drops are Pistol Bullet (52%), 5.56 Rifle Ammo (51%), Medical Syringe (34%), Bandage (17%) and 12 Gauge Buckshot (7.9%). One body holds about 2.5 different items, and 211 different items showed up over 50,000 fills.

How much scrap is an Excavator Scientist worth?

About 8.0 scrap on average at a monument recycler (50%), counting the scrap inside and what its components recycle into. That's about 125 bodies for 1,000 scrap.

Can an Excavator Scientist drop guns?

Yes, a weapon turns up in about 1 of every 23 bodies. The most likely are Weapon flashlight (0.2%), Combat Knife (0.2%) and Beancan Grenade (0.2%).

Chance is per body: 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. NPC loot is rolled the way the game rolls an NPC's loot slots (each slot, its count and its chance); it isn't taken from a real body, so check it against what you see in game.