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Cactus

Tree

A Cactus gives 15 Cloth and 3 Cactus Flesh when you cut it down. Wood tea does nothing to it: the tea only adds wood.

YieldFound at

How much a Cactus gives, by tool, tea and pie

Wood tea adds nothing here: the tea only adds wood, and this one gives none.

Cactus, 300 health
Tool	Hits	Time	No tea
Chainsaw Kreig Chainsword	10	1.8s	15 cloth + 3 cactus flesh
Salvaged Axe	6	6.3s	15 cloth + 3 cactus flesh
Hatchet Frontier Hatchet Prototype Hatchet Abyss Metal Hatchet	10	8.1s	15 cloth + 3 cactus flesh
Sickle	10	8.1s	15 cloth + 3 cactus flesh
Bone Club	18	11.9s	15 cloth + 3 cactus flesh
Stone Hatchet Concrete Hatchet	18	15.3s	15 cloth + 3 cactus flesh
Salvaged Hammer	18	17s	15 cloth + 3 cactus flesh
Candy Cane Club	18	17s	15 cloth + 3 cactus flesh
Rock Skull Jungle Rock	10	11.7s	8 cloth + 2 cactus flesh

Cactus, 200 health
Tool	Hits	Time	No tea
Chainsaw Kreig Chainsword	6	1s	10 cloth + 2 cactus flesh
Salvaged Axe	5	5s	10 cloth + 2 cactus flesh
Hatchet Frontier Hatchet Prototype Hatchet Abyss Metal Hatchet	8	6.3s	10 cloth + 2 cactus flesh
Sickle	8	6.3s	10 cloth + 2 cactus flesh
Bone Club	12	7.7s	10 cloth + 2 cactus flesh
Stone Hatchet Concrete Hatchet	12	9.9s	10 cloth + 2 cactus flesh
Salvaged Hammer	12	11s	10 cloth + 2 cactus flesh
Candy Cane Club	12	11s	10 cloth + 2 cactus flesh
Rock Skull Jungle Rock	6	6.5s	5 cloth + 1 cactus flesh

Cactus, 100 health, 5 models
Tool	Hits	Time	No tea
Chainsaw Kreig Chainsword	4	0.6s	5 cloth + 1 cactus flesh
Salvaged Axe	3	2.5s	5 cloth + 1 cactus flesh
Hatchet Frontier Hatchet Prototype Hatchet Abyss Metal Hatchet	4	2.7s	5 cloth + 1 cactus flesh
Sickle	4	2.7s	5 cloth + 1 cactus flesh
Bone Club	6	3.5s	5 cloth + 1 cactus flesh
Stone Hatchet Concrete Hatchet	6	4.5s	5 cloth + 1 cactus flesh
Salvaged Hammer	6	5s	5 cloth + 1 cactus flesh
Candy Cane Club	6	5s	5 cloth + 1 cactus flesh
Rock Skull Jungle Rock	4	3.9s	3 cloth + 1 cactus flesh

Simulated hit by hit as the game does it, rounding included. Time runs from the first hit to the last. A tea leaves a fraction over after the last hit that carries to the next node, so a player on a run can get one more.

Where to find a Cactus

Seeded by the world, outside any monument
Terrain	Biomes
open fields	desert

How Cactus works in Rust

Across procedural Rust server maps, Cactus spawns as a harvestable world node with 300, 200, 100 hitpoints across 7 distinct 3D prefab variants, holding up to 15 cloth + 3 cactus flesh before tea multipliers when gathered with a top-tier tool. The strike-by-strike harvesting table above simulates every swing from first strike to final break so players can compare tool speeds and resource recovery across every tier.

Cactus tool harvesting, tea multipliers and finishing bonus

Each row in the Cactus harvesting matrix applies exact in-game per-strike rounding to benchmark hit counts, swing duration in seconds, unboosted base payout, and Basic, Advanced, and Pure Wood Tea modifiers combined with Bear Pie buffs across electric, metal, stone, and primitive gathering tools.

Node identity summary: Health: 300, 200, 100 | Inside: 15 Cloth and 3 Cactus Flesh | Finish bonus: None | Models in the game: 7 across procedural terrain.
Optimal wood-felling tools: Fuel-powered chainsaws and metal axes recover 100% of the wood pool and finishing bonus in the fewest seconds.
Primitive tool penalty: Crude rocks, bone clubs, and stone tools carry lower gathering efficiency and lose a portion of the node capacity.
Wood Tea and pie buffs: Three tiers of Wood Tea stack with Bear Pie to multiply wood recovered per tree up to +275%.
Biome and terrain placement: Generates naturally across procedural biome and topology layers, respawning as players clear nodes in the region.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Cactus yield in Rust and what is the best tool?

Clearing Cactus (300, 200, 100 HP) in Rust with a Chainsaw yields 15 cloth + 3 cactus flesh across individual swings without a separate falling bonus, securing full resource capacity at the fastest swing rate.

Does Cactus have a finishing bonus on the last hit in Rust?

Harvesting Cactus (300, 200, 100 HP) pays out its entire 15 cloth + 3 cactus flesh yield across individual tool strikes from start to finish without displaying a red X marker or holding back a final falling bonus.

How does Wood Tea affect Cactus yields in Rust?

Consumable Wood Tea buffs do not alter the resource payout of Cactus, so harvesting it with a Chainsaw returns the exact same 15 cloth + 3 cactus flesh total whether or not a tea is active.

Does eating a Bear Pie boost Cactus harvesting in Rust?

Because Cactus does not scale with Wood Tea percentage buffs, eating a Bear Pie leaves its fixed 15 cloth + 3 cactus flesh resource payout unchanged across every tool in the comparison table.

How fast do different tools break Cactus in Rust?

The Cactus (300, 200, 100 HP) table above benchmarks every tool option side by side, listing total strikes required, time to finish in seconds, and resource recovery from primitive rocks up to top-tier tools.

Why do some tools get less than 15 cloth + 3 cactus flesh from Cactus in Rust?

Improvised starter tools such as the Rock, Bone Club, or Stone Pickaxe and Hatchet have lower gathering multipliers and forfeit part of the node or its final bonus, leaving Cactus below 15 cloth + 3 cactus flesh.

Where does Cactus spawn across Rust maps and biomes?

Cactus populates procedural Rust maps according to biome filters (Arid, Temperate, Tundra, Arctic, or Jungle) and terrain topologies such as cliffs, forests, beaches, or monuments, respawning as nodes are cleared.

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