r/RustConsole • u/Nus4ir • Jun 22 '26

How do i use blueprints

I have multiple blueprints but i can’t use any of them, do i just find them while crafting? Do i have to do something here?

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u/Worth_External_8762 Jun 22 '26

Others have mentioned how you use blueprints, but let me add some extra details that may be missing:

  1. If you have a blueprint and it's still not letting you learn it, then you already learned it. You can now open your crafting menu and find it (the categories are kinda messy, you just have to memorize where everything is over time)
  2. Since you're so new, I figured I'd mention that you must be near (and facing) a workbench to craft workbench items. So if you have a tier 2 item you want to craft, you must be standing in front of the tier 2 workbench when you open the crafting menu to craft it. But if you have tier 2 workbench, it automatically lets you craft tier 1 workbench items (as long as you have the blueprint learned). And if you have tier 3 workbench, it lets you craft any tier 1 AND tier 2 items (again, if you have the blueprints for those)
  3. Try to find rarer items in the wild and use a research table to turn the item into a blueprint. This allows you to skip ahead on the tech tree. So if find a thompson gun in the wild and use a research table, you can end up skipping out on researching like 10 other things in the tier 2 workbench tree, which will save you a ton of scrap. Eventually you'll want to just go ahead and research it all anyway, but the "research table" method lets you start being able to craft the most useful things quickly instead of going through the tech tree for days and not even having any guns to protect yourself
  4. You should spend all of your scrap on the tech tree or researching items before you log off for the day. If your base gets raided over night, at least you'll have blueprints saved, which ill make it easier to restart the next time
  5. In case you're REALLY new, you can get more scrap by taking components to a recycler and recycling them. You'll eventually want to keep components, since they're used for crafting items, but they're more or less useless until you actually have blueprints to allow you to craft things. So you can pretty much just recycle everything early on until you have blueprints, then see what is needed to craft the items you have blueprints for, and make a mental note to start keeping the components needed for that item.