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Torch

Wood, one cloth and one low grade fuel, no bench. The fuel is what you lack on day one, and a single craft of it holds enough for four torches.

Data: Rust build 2026-10-02

Item details

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Summary

Cloth
×2
Craft time
20 s
Workbench
None
Research
20 Scrap

Resources

Crafting tree

Torch ×1

Crafting chain

Item Crafts × yield Left over
Torch15 s · None 1 × 1 —
Low Grade Fuel5 s · None 1 × 4 +3

About this craft

Fuel decides this craft. Wood and cloth come off the first tree and the first hemp plant, while low grade fuel either drops from a road barrel or gets made from animal fat, which means killing something first. The torch you lose at dusk is paid for by the boar you killed at noon.

Type in one torch and the calculator shows three fuel left over. A fuel craft always yields four, so queue torches in fours and nothing waits in your pockets: one for your hand, the rest for the torch holders by the door.

The skinned torches are not separate crafts. Own the Abyss torch or another skin and you pick it when you craft this one, at this exact bill, so choose by look, unless you plan to dive.

Questions

Torch ×10: how many resources?

Cloth ×13, Animal Fat ×9, Wood ×300.

Which workbench does Torch need?

None: it is crafted by hand.

How long does Torch take to craft?

20 s for one, every step included.

How much scrap does researching Torch take?

20 scrap for every blueprint in the chain.

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Quick facts

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