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Handmade Fishing Rod

No bench, no research, 200 wood and two ropes. The wood is a couple of trees; the ropes are the real price, since rope is never crafted, only found.

Data: Rust build 2026-10-02

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Summary

Wood
×200
Craft time
10 s
Workbench
None
Research
10 Scrap

Resources

Crafting tree

Handmade Fishing Rod ×1

Crafting chain

Item Crafts × yield Left over
Handmade Fishing Rod10 s · None 1 × 1 —

About this craft

Before you fell a single tree, find two ropes. The wood comes off a couple of trees, the rod needs no bench, and its blueprint is one everybody knows from the start. Rope is the snag: no bench crafts it, so after a fresh beach spawn it comes from barrels along the road, and later from crates and recycled gear.

That puts the rod in a queue. The same pair of ropes makes a crossbow, which also feeds you while deer are around. On a bare coast with nothing to hunt, the rod gets them.

Tip

A worn rod belongs in the recycler, not on the ground. It returns one rope, which is half of the next rod.

Questions

Handmade Fishing Rod ×10: how many resources?

Wood ×2,000, Rope ×20.

Which workbench does Handmade Fishing Rod need?

None: it is crafted by hand.

How long does Handmade Fishing Rod take to craft?

10 s for one, every step included.

How much scrap does researching Handmade Fishing Rod take?

10 scrap for every blueprint in the chain.

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Quick facts

Category
Tool
Stack size
1
Yield per craft
1
Workbench
None
Research
10 Scrap