Tunnel Dweller Loot Table

Every item a Tunnel Dweller 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 2.9
Common drops (1%+): 49
Times filled: 50,000

Worth Looting?

Scrap: about 8.1
High quality metal: about 0.6
Components: about 2.5
Weapons: 1 in 21

One body is worth about 8.1 scrap on average at a monument recycler. That's about 123 bodies for 1,000 scrap, and #2 of 14 NPCs in the value ranking.

Other recyclers: Safe Zone 40% about 7 · 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 144 of 144. Click a column to sort.


Metal Blade	29%	1-2
Rope	28%	1-4
Medical Syringe	17%	1
Empty Propane Tank	16%	1-2
Sewing Kit	15%	3-8
Tarp	15%	1-2
Pistol Bullet	11%	15
5.56 Rifle Ammo	11%	12
Bandage	8.1%	1
Semi Automatic Body	7.6%	1-2
Metal Spring	7.4%	1-3
Metal Pipe	7.4%	1-8
Electric Fuse	7.3%	1-3
Road Signs	7.3%	2-6
Sheet Metal	7.3%	1-2
Gears	7.2%	2-4
Igniter	2.4%	1-2
Stone Fireplace	2.4%	1-2
Acoustic Guitar	2.4%	1-2
Salvaged Shelves	2.4%	1-2
Bandana Mask	2.4%	1-2
Improvised Balaclava	2.3%	1-2
Large Planter Box	2.3%	1-2
Wooden Barricade	2.3%	1-2
Binoculars	2.3%	1-2
Stone Barricade	2.3%	1-2
Wooden Floor Spikes	2.3%	1-2
Tank Top	2.3%	1-2
Beenie Hat	2.3%	1-2
Shorts	2.3%	1-2
Wooden Barricade Cover	2.3%	1-2
Water Bucket	2.3%	1-2
Rug	2.3%	1-2
Water Barrel	2.3%	1-2
Wood Shutters	2.3%	1-2
Huge Wooden Sign	2.2%	1-2
Table	2.2%	1-2
Baseball Cap	2.2%	1-2
Mail Box	2.2%	1-2
Large Wooden Sign	2.2%	1-2
Paddle	2.2%	1-2
Triangle Planter Box	2.2%	1-2
Tuna Can Lamp	2.2%	1-2
Bear Skin Rug	2.2%	1-2
Leather Gloves	2.1%	1-2
Boonie Hat	2.1%	1-2
Spinning Wheel	2.1%	1-2
Hazmat Suit	1.9%	1
12 Gauge Buckshot	1.3%	6
12 Gauge Incendiary Shell	0.8%	4-7
12 Gauge Slug	0.8%	4
Drop Box	0.2%	1
Industrial Splitter	0.2%	1
Large Solar Panel	0.2%	1
Weapon flashlight	0.2%	1
Bee Grenade	0.2%	1
Blocker	0.2%	1
Fluid Splitter	0.2%	1
Fluid Switch & Pump	0.2%	1
Beehive	0.2%	1
Boomerang	0.2%	1
Button	0.2%	1
Electric Heater	0.2%	1
Electrical Branch	0.2%	1
Flare	0.2%	4-5
Handmade SMG	0.2%	1
High External Wooden Gate	0.2%	1
Industrial Combiner	0.2%	1
Kayak	0.2%	1
Pickaxe	0.2%	1
Reinforced Wooden Shield	0.2%	1
Salvaged Hammer	0.2%	1
Salvaged Sword	0.2%	1
Sandbag Barricade	0.2%	4
Switch	0.2%	1
Tin Can Alarm	0.2%	1
XOR Switch	0.2%	1
Audio Alarm	0.2%	1
Barbed Wooden Barricade	0.2%	1
Beancan Grenade	0.2%	1
Bucket Helmet	0.2%	1
Chair	0.2%	1
Chicken Coop	0.2%	1
Engineering Workbench	0.2%	1
Flasher Light	0.2%	1
Floor grill	0.2%	1
Floor triangle grill	0.2%	1
Industrial Conveyor	0.2%	1
Mace	0.2%	1
Metal Window Bars	0.2%	1
Miners Hat	0.2%	1
OR Switch	0.2%	1
Prisoner Hood	0.2%	1
Root Combiner	0.2%	1
Small Rechargeable Battery	0.2%	1
Snap Trap	0.2%	1
Storage Adaptor	0.2%	1
Bed	0.2%	1
Chainlink Fence Gate	0.2%	1
Flame Turret	0.2%	1
Fluid Combiner	0.2%	1
Hot Air Balloon Armor	0.2%	1
Satchel Charge	0.2%	1
Shirt	0.2%	1
Siren Light	0.2%	1
Small Water Catcher	0.2%	1
Splitter	0.2%	1
T-Shirt	0.2%	1
Targeting Computer	0.2%	1
Timer	0.2%	1
Waterpipe Shotgun	0.2%	1
CCTV Camera	0.1%	1
Ceiling Light	0.1%	1
Chainlink Fence	0.1%	1
Compound Bow	0.1%	1
Door Controller	0.1%	1
Fridge	0.1%	1
Hatchet	0.1%	1
High External Wooden Wall	0.1%	1
Jacket	0.1%	1
Longsleeve T-Shirt	0.1%	1
Mini Crossbow	0.1%	1
Mixing Table	0.1%	1
Pants	0.1%	1
Pressure Pad	0.1%	1
Reactive Target	0.1%	1
Revolver	0.1%	1
Riot Helmet	0.1%	1
Salvaged Cleaver	0.1%	1
Shotgun Trap	0.1%	1
Siege Tower	0.1%	1
Snow Jacket	0.1%	1
Speargun	0.1%	1
Sprinkler	0.1%	1
Telephone	0.1%	1
Watch Tower	0.1%	1
Wooden Armor Insert	0.1%	1
Wooden Ladder	0.1%	1
Cooking Workbench	0.1%	1
Double Barrel Shotgun	0.1%	1
Combat Knife	0.1%	1
Hopper	0.1%	1
Metal Detector	0.1%	1
Auto Turret	under 0.1%	1

144 different items turned up across all 50,000 fills. Most are rare: one body holds about 2.9 of them.

Other NPCs

Questions

What does a Tunnel Dweller drop in Rust?

The most likely drops are Metal Blade (29%), Rope (28%), Medical Syringe (17%), Empty Propane Tank (16%) and Sewing Kit (15%). One body holds about 2.9 different items, and 144 different items showed up over 50,000 fills.

How much scrap is a Tunnel Dweller worth?

About 8.1 scrap on average at a monument recycler (50%), counting the scrap inside and what its components recycle into. That's about 123 bodies for 1,000 scrap.

Can a Tunnel Dweller drop guns?

Yes, a weapon turns up in about 1 of every 21 bodies. The most likely are Paddle (2.2%), Weapon flashlight (0.2%) and Bee 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.