Rust Tea Recipes — All Teas, Tiers, Recipes & Effects

For a one-page reference of all Rust farming numbers (not just teas), see the Rust Farming Cheat Sheet.

Rust has eight teas, each brewed at a Mixing Table or Cooking Workbench from a specific berry combination. The Pure tier of each tea is generally the only version worth grinding berries for — Basic and Advanced give weak buffs at the same time cost.

2× Yellow + 2× Blue berries (Pure tier)

Ore Tea is the single highest-impact farming buff in Rust for sulfur and metal-ore runs. Brewed from yellow and blue berries at a Mixing Tab…

3× Red + 1× Yellow berries (Pure tier)

Max Health Tea is Rust's combat buff. A single Pure Max Health Tea takes you from 100 HP to 120 HP for five minutes — enough extra survivabi…

4× Red berries (Pure tier)

Healing Tea is Rust's instant-heal consumable. Brewed from red berries, it restores HP the moment you drink it — no animation, no waiting fo…

2× Red + 2× Blue berries (Pure tier)

Wood Tea is the chainsaw player's best friend. A Pure Wood Tea triples your wood-per-tree yield for 30 minutes, turning a single chainsaw ru…

2× Yellow + 2× White berries (Pure tier)

Scrap Tea is the looter's tea. It boosts the scrap you pull from barrels and crates by up to 200%, turning a regular road farm into a scrap …

2× Red + 2× Green berries (Pure tier)

Anti-Rad Tea reduces radiation damage at high-tier monuments. With a Pure Anti-Rad Tea active, you can spend significantly longer at Launch …

2× Red + 2× Yellow berries (Pure tier — confirm in-game)

Warming Tea (added March 2025) lets you survive cold biomes that would otherwise drain HP from freezing. With Pure Warming Tea active, you g…

2× Green + 2× White berries (Pure tier — confirm in-game)

Cooling Tea (March 2025) is the desert-biome counterpart to Warming Tea. Drink before entering hot regions — desert monuments, summer wipes,…

Want to know how many teas you can brew from your current berry stockpile? Use the Tea Brewery Calculator.

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