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Test Generator

No player can craft or research it. The bill only prices what sits inside one: fuses, gears, pipes and HQM, about half of which the recycler returns.

Data: Rust build 2026-10-02

Item details

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Summary

High Quality Metal
×25
Craft time
25 s
Workbench
Level 2
Research
0 Scrap

Resources

Crafting tree

Test Generator ×1

Crafting chain

Item Crafts × yield Left over
Test Generator25 s · Level 2 1 × 1 —

About this craft

Nobody crafts this generator. The game gives players no blueprint for it, so the Level 2 line on this page never opens, and on a normal server you will rarely see one at all. Admins and test setups use it to feed a circuit without fuel. If one does land in your inventory, read the calculator as a price tag for its parts.

Those parts are the interesting bit. Electric fuses, gears and metal pipes sit inside, and the fuses can't be crafted either. The ordinary recycler returns about half of every line: fuses for your keycard runs, gears for a door, a pipe and a good pile of HQM.

So unless your server lets you keep it running, recycle it. For real base power, the craft to learn is the small generator.

Questions

Test Generator ×10: how many resources?

High Quality Metal ×250, Electric Fuse ×40, Gears ×40, Metal Pipe ×20.

Which workbench does Test Generator need?

Workbench level 2.

How long does Test Generator take to craft?

25 s for one, every step included.

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Quick facts

Category
Electrical
Stack size
1
Yield per craft
1
Workbench
Level 2
Research
—