Rust Farming Tools
Pies Reference
Every pie recipe, exact buff values, ingredients and how to get them — added in the March 2025 Crafting Update.
How to bake pies
01
Get a Cooking Workbench
Craft one at a Level 1 Workbench or research it for scrap. It also functions as a Mixing Table so you can brew teas there too. Ingredient order matters just like the Mixing Table.
02
Gather ingredients
Every pie needs Eggs and Wheat. Eggs come from wild chickens or a Chicken Coop. Wheat grows near rivers like Corn — farm it for a steady supply. Cook your meat before using it.
03
Use a fridge
Meat and cooked meat now expire. Connect a powered Electric Fridge (1W) to keep ingredients and baked pies fresh. Without one, your ingredients will rot before you can use them.
Key ingredients
Wheat
Found growing near rivers. Can be farmed from seed. Required in almost every pie recipe — grow plenty.
Egg
Dropped by wild chickens or harvested from a Chicken Coop. Required in almost every pie. Set up a coop for reliable supply.
Jar of Honey
Harvested from beehives. Used in Apple Pie. Also gives +3 heal, -15 rad, +50 calories if eaten directly.
Potato
Farmed crop. Used in several pies. Easy to grow in large quantities from a planter.
Mushroom
Found in forests. Used in Hunter's Pie, Fish Pie and Survivor's Pie. Not farmable — must be gathered.
Pumpkin
Farmed crop. Only ingredient needed beyond eggs and wheat for Pumpkin Pie — cheap for the buff it gives.
All pies
Note: 8 pies covered below. Newer additions Crocodile Pie and Big Cat Pie shipped with the Jungle biome update — recipes and effects vary, check facepunch.com or in-game for current details.
Bear Pie
best for farming
// buff
+50% tea effect
Doubles the effect of all harvesting teas (ore, wood, scrap). A Pure Ore Tea at +50% becomes +75% ore yield. Trade-off: cuts tea duration from 30 min down to 15 min.
// 15 min duration
// recipe (Cooking Workbench)
2× Cooked Bear Meat
3× Egg
3× Wheat
2× Potato
2× Mushroom
⚠ Halves tea duration — use when you want stronger effect over shorter window, not for long farm sessions
Pork Pie
combat
// buff
+200% healing rate
Triples the speed of all gradual healing effects for 15 minutes. Paired with a Large Med Kit this lets you recover from near-lethal damage extremely quickly mid-fight.
// 15 min duration
// recipe (Cooking Workbench)
2× Cooked Pork
3× Egg
3× Wheat
2× Potato
2× Mushroom
Best PvP pie — combine with Large Med Kit for rapid recovery during or after fights
Pumpkin Pie
max health
// buff
+10% max HP
Increases maximum health by 10% for 10 minutes. Does not stack with Max Health Tea — only the stronger of the two applies. Very cheap to make given pumpkins are easy to farm.
// 10 min duration
// recipe (Cooking Workbench)
1× Pumpkin
3× Egg
3× Wheat
⚠ Does not stack with Max Health Tea — use one or the other, whichever gives more HP
Apple Pie
utility
// buff
Night Vision
+100% improved vision at night for 15 minutes — makes X tree markings and ore node hotspots visible in the dark. Great for night farming runs without risking NVGs.
// 15 min duration
// recipe (Cooking Workbench)
2× Apple
1× Jar of Honey
3× Egg
3× Wheat
⚠ Apples only found in food crates — rare ingredient makes this expensive to produce consistently
Hunter's Pie
combat
// buff
−75% bleed
Reduces bleeding damage by 75% for 15 minutes. Bleeding loses health fast — this pie dramatically slows it, letting your healing outpace the damage during fights.
// 15 min duration
// recipe (Cooking Workbench)
2× Cooked Deer Meat
3× Egg
3× Wheat
2× Potato
2× Mushroom
Pair with Pork Pie for maximum combat survivability — less bleed damage + faster healing
Chicken Pie
farming
// buff
Better crop genes
Increases the chance of getting better genes from crops for 5 minutes. Useful when you're cross-breeding and trying to push toward a god clone — more chance of G/Y winning each slot.
// 5 min duration
// recipe (Cooking Workbench)
3× Cooked Chicken
3× Corn
3× Egg
3× Wheat
Short 5 min window — eat right before harvesting cross-bred plants for best effect
Fish Pie
comfort
// buff
+25% comfort
Boosts base comfort level for 10 minutes. Comfort enables passive health regeneration when food and water are high. Useful for AFK healing at base without burning through meds.
// 10 min duration
// recipe (Cooking Workbench)
1× Cooked Fish
3× Egg
3× Wheat
2× Potato
2× Mushroom
⚠ High ingredient cost for a comfort buff — generally not worth it unless you have fish to spare
Survivor's Pie
situational
// buff
+150% corpse yield
Increases yield when harvesting animal and human corpses by 150% for 5 minutes. Useful after large fights or for players running a meat/leather operation.
// 5 min duration
// recipe (Cooking Workbench)
1× Cooked Human Meat
3× Egg
3× Wheat
2× Potato
2× Mushroom
⚠ Currently admin-spawnable only — not craftable by regular players in standard gameplay
What's worth making
Stacking rules
Bear Pie + harvesting teas✓ Stack — pie boosts tea effect by 50%
Pumpkin Pie + Max Health Tea✗ Do not stack — only stronger effect applies
Pork Pie + Med Kit✓ Stack — healing rate boost applies to all heal sources
Hunter's Pie + Pork Pie✓ Stack — different effects, both active simultaneously
All pies⚠ Effects lost on death
Ingredients⚠ Meat expires — use Electric Fridge (1W) to preserve