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Small Planter Box

One tarp and 100 wood, no bench and a blueprint everyone starts with. The cheapest way into farming, and the worst return per tarp once the farm grows.

Data: Rust build 2026-10-02

Item details

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Summary

Wood
×100
Craft time
15 s
Workbench
None
Research
10 Scrap

Resources

Crafting tree

Small Planter Box ×1

Crafting chain

Item Crafts × yield Left over
Small Planter Box15 s · None 1 × 1 —

About this craft

Day one with a single tarp in your bag is exactly what this box is for. Every player knows the recipe from the start, it takes no bench, and the wood is a handful of trees, so the first hemp seeds can go into the ground before the walls are finished.

Past the first box, though, look at the large planter's recipe. Small boxes give the fewest seeds per tarp of all the planters, and on a farm built from them you pay for that in tarps you will not find again soon. Scrap is short early, but the large box's blueprint is cheap enough to learn before the second tarp turns up.

The unfolded calculator lists cloth instead of the tarp and adds a Level 2 bench. Ignore both: nobody crafts tarps.

Tip

Put small boxes where they can stay for the whole wipe: a balcony, a strip by the furnaces. Recycled, a small box gives its tarp back only on a lucky roll.

Questions

Small Planter Box ×10: how many resources?

Wood ×1,000, Tarp ×10.

Which workbench does Small Planter Box need?

None: it is crafted by hand.

How long does Small Planter Box take to craft?

15 s for one, every step included.

How much scrap does researching Small Planter Box take?

10 scrap for every blueprint in the chain.

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Quick facts

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