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Incendiary Bolt

Metal fragments, cloth and low grade fuel: no sulfur and no high quality metal. A ballista bolt with nothing rare in it, best crafted in pairs.

Data: Rust build 2026-10-02

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Summary

Metal Fragments
×50
Craft time
20 s
Workbench
Level 2
Research
40 Scrap

Resources

Crafting tree

Incendiary Bolt ×1

Crafting chain

Item Crafts × yield Left over
Incendiary Bolt5 s · Level 2 1 × 1 —
Low Grade Fuel15 s · None 3 × 4 +2

About this craft

No high quality metal goes into this bolt, and that is its quiet advantage. The hammerhead bolt wants HQM on top of its fragments; this one takes frags, cloth and a splash of low grade fuel, things any group has lying around. When armour and guns have claimed every bit of HQM, incendiaries are the bolts you can still make.

Craft them in pairs: one bolt leaves a little fuel over from its batch, two use it exactly. Learn the ballista first, since the bolt blueprint is useless without it and both sit at the same Level 2 bench. Then keep a few ready rather than a box, because the fire only pays against wood.

Questions

Incendiary Bolt ×10: how many resources?

Metal Fragments ×500, Cloth ×125, Animal Fat ×75.

Which workbench does Incendiary Bolt need?

Workbench level 2.

How long does Incendiary Bolt take to craft?

20 s for one, every step included.

How much scrap does researching Incendiary Bolt take?

40 scrap for every blueprint in the chain.

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Quick facts

Category
Ammunition
Stack size
3
Yield per craft
1
Workbench
Level 2
Research
30 Scrap