Components are crucial for crafting advanced items, while resources are the raw materials of Rust.
Key Components:
- Scrap: The most important component. Used for blueprints, research, and trading.
- Metal Fragments: Basic metal, used in many crafts.
- High Quality Metal (HQM): Rare and valuable. Used for high-tier weapons, armor, and armored building blocks.
- Low Grade Fuel: Powers vehicles, generators, quarries, and furnaces.
- Cloth: For sleeping bags, clothing, and some early weapons.
- Rope: For bows, crossbows, and some armor.
- Gears: For advanced tools, weapons, and electrical components.
- Springs: For firearms and traps.
- Tech Trash: For advanced electrical components and research.
- Electronic Parts: For electrical components.
- Fuse: Used in monument puzzles.
- Research Paper: Used at the Research Table.
Key Resources:
- Wood: Basic building material, fuel.
- Stone: Basic building material, crafting.
- Metal Ore: Smelted into Metal Fragments.
- Sulfur Ore: Smelted into Sulfur, used for gunpowder and explosives.
- Crude Oil: Refined into Low Grade Fuel.
Efficiently gathering and managing your components and resources is key to sustained progression.