Rust Manual

Electric Heater

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Electric Heater

Provides warmth in a radius when on

Shortname: electric.heater

Item ID: -784870360

Despawns after 20m on the ground

Craft recipe
Workbench tier
T1
Craft time
30s
Recycling yields

Radtown Recycler

Safe Zone Recycler

Approximate — recyclers return a share of an item's crafting cost (60% at monument Recyclers, 40% at Safe Zone Recyclers), not a fixed table.

Repair cost
Current condition
%

A repair bench restores 20% condition per click, at 20% of the recipe cost per point missing.

Placed entity
Health
200 HP

Health once placed in the world — not to be confused with the item's own condition/durability while held.

Raid cost
ExplosiveDamage / chargeCharges needed
Timed Explosive ChargeTimed Explosive Charge5501
Satchel ChargeSatchel Charge4751
Beancan GrenadeBeancan Grenade1152
F1 GrenadeF1 Grenade2251
Molotov CocktailMolotov Cocktail356
FlashbangFlashbang2010
Bee GrenadeBee Grenade2010

Assumes no damage resistance — unlike building tiers, this entity has no separate protection multiplier, so raw HP is divided by raw damage per charge.

Sold by NPC vendors
The Compound – Extra Vendor 11x for 75 ScrapScrap
Loot sources
Workbench Experiment Tier 11.1%Radtown (Alt)0.3%Generic<0.1%Barrel (Better Loot)<0.1%

Chance the item is included whenever that container rolls, resolved through nested loot tables. Approximate — doesn't account for seasonal or event-restricted rotations.