Loot plugins for Rust
Loot plugins control what spawns inside crates, barrels and airdrops, how much of it drops, and how long it stays on the ground. Server owners use them to fight two opposite problems: vanilla loot economy that makes endgame gear too easy to farm, or drop rates so thin that players leave on wipe day. A loot multiplier or first loot bonus lets you nudge that balance per wipe without recompiling anything, while custom loot tables and custom airdrop loot replace the default contents of specific containers so you can gate blueprints, tinker with component drops, or make airdrops worth contesting again.
9 plugin recipes for Oxide and Carbon
- Barrel scrap bonusAwards bonus scrap when a player destroys a loot barrel, with a configurable chance and a VIP multiplier permission.OnEntityDeath
- First opener crate lockThis plugin gives the first player who opens a loot container a temporary claim on it, enforced through the CanLootEntity hook, so anyone outside…CanLootEntityOnEntityKill
- Custom loot tablesReplaces the contents of configured LootContainer crates, matched by short prefab name, with weighted items that have per-item chances and min/max…OnLootSpawn
- Dropped item despawn timeThis plugin changes how long dropped item containers stay on the ground before Rust despawns them, using a global multiplier plus per-shortname…OnItemDropped
- First loot bonusThis plugin hooks OnLootEntity and rolls a configurable chance to insert one bonus item from a weighted list into a loot container the first time it…OnLootEntity
- Locked crate hack timerOverrides the hack duration of HackableLockedCrate entities and lets players with a VIP permission unlock them faster, using the OnCrateHack hook…OnCrateHack
- Loot multiplierThis plugin multiplies the stack sizes of items generated inside loot containers such as crates and barrels, using a global multiplier, per-item…OnLootSpawn
- Recycler output multiplierScales the amount of resources a recycler returns using a global multiplier plus per-item overrides.OnItemRecycleAmount
- Custom airdrop lootRewrites the contents of every falling supply drop with a weighted item table from the config and announces the drop position as a map grid reference.OnEntitySpawned
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About loot plugins
Access control matters as much as the tables. A first opener crate lock claims a crate for the first player who touches it, and a locked crate hack timer turns hacked crates into timed objectives that other groups can contest. Barrel scrap bonus and recycler output multiplier change the value players extract from farming rather than what containers spawn, and dropped item despawn time affects how long contested loot persists after a fight. Tune each value against your wipe length; large recycled component output shortens progression noticeably.
All plugins on this page are standard C# Oxide plugins and load under Carbon. They hook the loot and container events, expose their values through JSON config files, and most grant admin-only permissions for in-game editing. Airdrop and crate changes take effect on the next spawn unless the plugin says otherwise.