Tool Box Loot Table
Every item that can be in a Tool Box, 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 2.2
- Common drops (1%+)
- 28
- Health
- 250
- Times filled
- 50,000
Worth Looting?
- Scrap
- about 5.0
- High quality metal
- about 0.0
- Components
- none
- Weapons
- 1 in 4
One container is worth about 5.0 scrap on average at a monument recycler. That's about 200 containers for 1,000 scrap, and #23 of 43 containers in the value ranking.
Other recyclers: Safe Zone 40% about 5 · Powered 60% about 5 · Red 75% about 5. 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 40 of 40. Click a column to sort.
 Scrap | 100% | 5 |
 Pickaxe | 7.9% | 1 |
 Hatchet | 7.8% | 1 |
 Binoculars | 7.8% | 1 |
 Wooden Arrow | 7.5% | 5 |
 Wood Armor Pants | 6.6% | 1 |
 Wood Chestplate | 6.6% | 1 |
 Longsleeve T-Shirt | 6.6% | 1 |
 Pants | 6.5% | 1 |
 Mace | 5.1% | 1 |
 Hunting Bow | 5.1% | 1 |
 Salvaged Cleaver | 5.0% | 1 |
 Salvaged Sword | 4.8% | 1 |
 Bone Arrow | 4.8% | 5-9 |
 Fire Arrow | 4.8% | 3-5 |
 Hoodie | 3.3% | 1 |
 Targeting Computer | 3.1% | 1 |
 Diving Mask | 2.7% | 1 |
 CCTV Camera | 2.5% | 1 |
 Combat Knife | 2.4% | 1 |
 Crossbow | 2.4% | 1 |
 Salvaged Axe | 2.0% | 1 |
 Salvaged Icepick | 1.9% | 1 |
 Diving Tank | 1.6% | 1 |
 Pistol Bullet | 1.5% | 15 |
 12 Gauge Buckshot | 1.1% | 6 |
 Diving Fins | 1.1% | 1 |
 Wetsuit | 1.1% | 1 |
 Chainsaw | 0.9% | 1 |
 Jackhammer | 0.9% | 1 |
 Low Grade Fuel | 0.9% | 20-39 |
 5.56 Rifle Ammo | 0.7% | 12 |
 12 Gauge Slug | 0.7% | 4 |
 12 Gauge Incendiary Shell | 0.6% | 4-7 |
 Incendiary Pistol Bullet | 0.5% | 10 |
 Auto Turret | 0.3% | 1 |
 HV Pistol Ammo | 0.3% | 10 |
 Incendiary 5.56 Rifle Ammo | 0.2% | 8 |
 Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo | 0.1% | 8 |
 HV 5.56 Rifle Ammo | 0.1% | 10 |
40 different items turned up across all 50,000 fills. Most are rare: one container holds about 2.2 of them.
Found at These Monuments
- Ferry Terminalabout 3
- Train Yardabout 3
- Arctic Research Baseabout 3
- Airfieldabout 2
- Power Plantabout 2
- Junkyardabout 1
- Harborabout 1
- Abandoned Military Baseabout 1
- Apartment Complexabout 1
- Fishing Villageabout 1
- Giant Excavator Pitabout 1
- Large Barnabout 1
- Missile Siloabout 1
- Outpostabout 1
- Jungle Ruinabout 1
How many were standing in one copy of the monument at scan time; respawns vary.
Other Crates
Questions
What can you get from a Tool Box in Rust?
The most likely drops are Scrap (100%), Pickaxe (7.9%), Hatchet (7.8%), Binoculars (7.8%) and Wooden Arrow (7.5%). One container holds about 2.2 different items, and 40 different items showed up over 50,000 fills.
How much scrap is a Tool Box worth?
About 5.0 scrap on average at a monument recycler (50%), counting the scrap inside and what its components recycle into. That's about 200 containers for 1,000 scrap.
Can a Tool Box drop guns?
Yes, a weapon turns up in about 1 of every 4 containers. The most likely are Mace (5.1%), Hunting Bow (5.1%) and Salvaged Cleaver (5.0%).
Where can you find a Tool Box?
Most at Ferry Terminal (about 3), Train Yard (about 3), Arctic Research Base (about 3), Airfield (about 2) and Power Plant (about 2), 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.