Rust Food Guide — Calories, Healing & Best Foods

Raw meat causes vomiting and deals slight damage. Always cook before eating. Since the March 2025 Crafting Update, raw meat spoils in 6 hours and cooked meat in 24 hours outside a powered fridge (5W).

Meat — raw vs cooked

Food	Calories	Hydration	Health	Notes
🐻Raw Bear Meatraw	10	+3	damage	Causes vomiting — do not eat raw
🐻Cooked Bear Meatcooked	100	+1	+small heal	Best calorie-to-effort ratio of all meats
🐷Raw Porkraw	10	—	damage	Do not eat raw
🐷Cooked Porkcooked	80	+3	+heal	Good all-round food, easy to farm from boars
🦌Raw Deer Meatraw	10	—	damage	Do not eat raw
🦌Cooked Deer Meatcooked	70	+3	+heal	Deer are fast but low threat — good early food
🐺Raw Wolf Meatraw	10	—	damage	Do not eat raw
🐺Cooked Wolf Meatcooked	50	+3	+heal	Lowest yield of the predators — risky kill for low return
🐔Raw Chicken Breastraw	10	—	damage	Do not eat raw
🐔Cooked Chickencooked	40	+3	+heal	Low calories — use in pie recipes instead
🐟Raw Fishraw	10	—	damage	Do not eat raw
🐟Cooked Fishcooked	75	+3	+heal	Good value from fish traps

Plants & gathered food

Food	Calories	Hydration	Health	Notes
🌾Wheatnew 2025	75	+10	+6	Found near rivers, farmable. Best used in pie recipes
🥚Eggnew 2025	40	+15	+2	From wild chickens or coop. Save for pie recipes
🍯Jar of Honeynew 2025	50	—	+3	−15 radiation. From beehives. Used in Apple Pie
🎃Pumpkinfarmable	100	+15	+10	High cal/hydration. Farmable. Used in Pumpkin Pie
🌽Cornfarmable	50	+3	+3	Easy to farm, used in Chicken Pie recipe
🥔Potatofarmable	40	+2	+1	Used in several pie recipes. Easy to grow in bulk
🍄Mushroom	10	+5	+3	Found in forests. Used in Hunter's, Fish and Survivor's pie
🍎Apple	15	+5	+2	Only in food crates — rare. Needed for Apple Pie
🫙Can of Beans	50	+10	+5	Found in crates, no cooking needed
🐟Can of Tuna	50	+10	+5	Found in crates, no cooking needed
🍫Chocolate Bar	40	+5	+5	Provides comfort — helps passive health regen

Spoilage reminder: Raw meat spoils in 6 hours, cooked meat in 24 hours. A powered Electric Fridge (5W) stops the spoilage timer while food is inside. Spoiled food still provides calories but causes poisoning.

Use a Bone Knife or Hatchet for maximum yield when harvesting. Yields below are maximum values with optimal tool. A Survivor's Pie (admin-only) gives +150% corpse yield for 5 min.

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Bear

400 HP · Forest & Arctic

Raw Bear Meat19×

Animal Fat100×

Leather100×

Cloth50×

Bone Fragments150×

Best source of animal fat in the game. Needs a firearm — very dangerous.

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Wolf

100 HP · All biomes

Raw Wolf Meat5×

Animal Fat10×

Leather75×

Cloth35×

Bone Fragments40×

Aggressive at 3m. Best for leather. Low food value for the danger.

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Boar

~80 HP · Temperate

Raw Pork8×

Animal Fat40×

Leather20×

Cloth10×

Bone Fragments50×

Best early-game food source. Easy to kill even with rock. Flees first.

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Deer (Stag)

~80 HP · Temperate

Raw Deer Meat4–5×

Animal Fat10×

Leather50×

Cloth25×

Bone Fragments50×

Runs away — best killed with bow. Good leather source.

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Chicken

25 HP · Forest

Raw Chicken Breast2×

Cloth6×

Bone Fragments12×

One hatchet hit kills. Chase for eggs before killing. Worth more alive in a coop.

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Horse

~400 HP · Desert

Raw Horse Meat5×

Animal Fat10×

Leather50×

Cloth25×

Bone Fragments50×

Keep alive as transport — barely profitable to kill.

About Wheat

Wheat was added in the March 2025 Crafting Update. It grows near rivers across the map like Corn, and can be picked up to receive both the wheat and a seed. You can farm it in planter boxes like other crops — it can also be cloned from seeds for faster production.

Eaten raw, wheat gives +6 healing, +75 calories and +10 hydration — good stats for a raw food. However its real value is as an ingredient — wheat is required in almost every pie recipe, making it one of the most important crops to farm alongside berries.

It also works as fish bait (bait value 1) and as horse food. A Bread Loaf can be crafted from 5 wheat at a Cooking Workbench — it doesn't spoil and gives a solid calorie source to keep in your base.

Farming wheat

Wheat uses the same farming system as all other crops — plant seeds in a Large Planter Box, keep it watered and lit. Good genes (GYYYYY or similar) will maximise yield and clones per harvest.

How much do you need? Every pie recipe uses 3 Wheat. If you're baking pies regularly, aim to have at least one full planter of wheat seeds running alongside your berry farm.

Wheat quick stats

Calories (raw)+75

Hydration (raw)+10

Healing (raw)+6

SpoilsYes — use fridge

Fish bait value1

FarmableYes — seeds + clones

Found wildNear rivers

Used in piesAll pies (3× each)

Bread Loaf

Recipe5× Wheat

Crafted atCooking Workbench

Does it spoil?No

Horse bonus+250% dung output

Added in the March 2025 Crafting Update. Chicken coops let you produce a reliable supply of eggs for pie recipes. Every pie needs eggs — without a coop you're relying on chasing wild chickens.

Getting started

Step by step

Find your first egg. Chase a wild chicken in a field — they drop an egg approximately every minute while a player is nearby. This is the hardest part. You can also trade another player for one.

Build a Chicken Coop. Research or find the blueprint. The coop is roughly 1 foundation square — plan the space before placing walls around it. Place it outside with access to sunlight.

Hatch your first chicken. Place the egg in the coop's Controls section and press the Hatch button. Takes 120 seconds. The chicken hatches with random stats and a British name.

Keep it happy. Fill the food slot, use Give/Take to add water (max 1000ml), and pet the chicken occasionally to top up the Love bar. Neglected chickens produce fewer eggs and eventually die.

Collect eggs. Eggs go into the Production output box. It holds a maximum of 20 eggs — check regularly or production halts when it's full.

Production facts

Hatch time120 seconds

Egg rate (healthy)~1 per 2 min

Max egg output box20 eggs

Water capacity1000 ml

Max chickens per coop4

Can be butcheredYes — for meat

If coop destroyedChickens disappear

Egg uses

Eat raw+40 cal, +15 hyd, +2 HP

Hatch a chickenPlace in coop

All pie recipes3× egg each

Horse foodEfficient horse feed

The 4 chicken stats

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Hunger

Fill the food slot in the coop. Most foods work — corn, wheat and vegetables are good options.

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Thirst

Use the Give button to transfer water into the coop. Max 1000ml. Refill regularly.

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Love

Pet the chicken by interacting with it. Each pet raises the Love bar. Can't pet while sleeping.

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Sunlight

Place the coop outdoors. Sunlight is assigned at birth — chickens in caves lose sunlight over 24hrs. Can't be changed with lights.

Tip on sunlight: Sunlight is a fixed stat assigned when the chicken hatches and can't be boosted with ceiling lights. If a newly hatched chicken has poor sunlight stats, the quickest fix is to butcher it and hatch a new one. Chickens placed outdoors in open areas will naturally improve their sunlight stat over time.