Rust Pies Reference — Bear Pie, Chicken Pie & Recipes

How to bake pies

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.

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.

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

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Wheat

Found growing near rivers. Can be farmed from seed. Required in almost every pie recipe — grow plenty.

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Egg

Dropped by wild chickens or harvested from a Chicken Coop. Required in almost every pie. Set up a coop for reliable supply.

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Jar of Honey

Harvested from beehives. Used in Apple Pie. Also gives +3 heal, -15 rad, +50 calories if eaten directly.

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Potato

Farmed crop. Used in several pies. Easy to grow in large quantities from a planter.

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Mushroom

Found in forests. Used in Hunter's Pie, Fish Pie and Survivor's Pie. Not farmable — must be gathered.

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Pumpkin

Farmed crop. Only ingredient needed beyond eggs and wheat for Pumpkin Pie — cheap for the buff it gives.

All pies

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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

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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

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Pumpkin Pie

max health

// buff

+10 max HP

Increases your maximum health for 15 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.

// 15 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Bear Pie + Pure Tea combo

The strongest farming combination. Bear Pie boosts your tea effect by 50% — so a Pure Ore Tea goes from +50% to +75% ore yield. The catch is the tea only lasts 15 minutes instead of 30. Use it when you want to absolutely maximise a short intense farming session.

// pure ore tea + bear pie = +75% ore for 15 min

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Pork Pie for PvP

+200% healing rate is massive. Combine with a Large Med Kit and you can recover from near-lethal damage in seconds. The best pie for anyone who regularly engages in PvP. Pork is easy to farm so the supply cost is manageable.

// triple healing speed for 15 min

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Pumpkin Pie — best value

Only needs 1 Pumpkin, 3 Eggs and 3 Wheat. Gives +10 max HP which is a meaningful advantage in fights. Pumpkins are easy to farm in bulk making this the cheapest useful pie. Worth baking whenever you have pumpkins to spare.

// cheapest pie for a real combat advantage

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