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Wind Turbine

Three sheets of metal and three gears: no power source you can craft asks for more loot. The wood and HQM beside them are a single evening's farm.

Data: Rust build 2026-10-02

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Summary

High Quality Metal
×10
Craft time
25 s
Workbench
Level 2
Research
60 Scrap

Resources

Crafting tree

Wind Turbine ×1

Crafting chain

Item Crafts × yield Left over
Wind Turbine25 s · Level 2 1 × 1 —

About this craft

Turbines tend to go up late, and the bill explains why. Sheet metal never comes off any bench, and gears only do at Level 3, so three of each means a lot of crates and road runs. The high quality metal and the wood are one evening's farm beside them.

Those sheets are also three crafts of high stone walls. Price the turbine against the compound it could have been, and against the other ways to skip fuel: a water wheel takes a single sheet if you live on a river, and a solar panel swaps the sheets for tech trash.

Tip

Start a sheet box early. Heavy plate armour you no longer wear gives sheets back in the recycler, so put it through instead of letting it gather dust.

Questions

Wind Turbine ×10: how many resources?

High Quality Metal ×100, Wood ×5,000, Gears ×30, Sheet Metal ×30.

Which workbench does Wind Turbine need?

Workbench level 2.

How long does Wind Turbine take to craft?

25 s for one, every step included.

How much scrap does researching Wind Turbine take?

60 scrap for every blueprint in the chain.

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Quick facts

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