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Basic Cooling Tea
Food and drink,ConsumableConsumed when you use it.
One Basic Cooling Tea gives 30 hydration and a cooling effect for 20 minutes.
The order is part of the recipe. The table checks slot 1 against the first ingredient, slot 2 against the second, and so on, and stops at the first empty slot: the same ingredients in another order make nothing.
Put more of the same in every slot to mix several batches in one go. Each extra batch adds 5s.
Basic Cooling Tea stats, mechanics, and overview in Rust
In Rust, Basic Cooling Tea is a food and drink in the Food category (item ID #-1260229965, console shortname coolingtea). In active play, it follows standard server rules for food and drink gear across procedural maps. Inventory storage stacks up to 10 units per slot, and uncollected ground drops despawn after 20 minutes.
A basic cooling tea that temporarily decreases your max and core temperature.
Acquisition profile (game files): Mixing Table recipe, 4 slots in a fixed order, 5 seconds per batch (0 downstream workbench recipes)
Monument recycling yield: Non-recyclable at green, yellow, or red units (0 downstream recipes)
Maintenance rule: Carries no condition wear bar and needs no bench maintenance
Conveyor & sorting profile: Filter by shortname coolingtea in Industrial Conveyors for automated box sorting
Basic Cooling Tea crafting, blueprint progression, and recycling in Rust
In Rust, Basic Cooling Tea has no workbench recipe: it is mixed at a Mixing Table or a Cooking Workbench, 5 seconds per batch, with the slot order read from the Rust game files. Monument recyclers do not break this item down into raw components, while it serves its dedicated role inside the Food catalog. Equipped and stored units carry no durability wear bar.
How Basic Cooling Tea compares to related food in Rust
When comparing Basic Cooling Tea against related food in Rust, mix it at a Mixing Table (5 seconds per batch) and keep the slot order exactly as listed, because the same ingredients in another order make nothing.
Item
Category
Stack Limit
Craft / Source
Tech Tree / Research
Green Recycler Yield
Basic Cooling Tea
Food
10 per slot
Mixing Table
No blueprint
Not recyclable
Creamy Pure Cooling Tea
Food
10 per slot
Workbench Level 1
10 scrap (Table)
Not recyclable
Milky Pure Cooling Tea
Food
10 per slot
Workbench Level 1
10 scrap (Table)
Not recyclable
Pure Cooling Tea
Food
10 per slot
Mixing Table
No blueprint
Not recyclable
Related items
Compare Basic Cooling Tea with closely related food and drink sheets in the Rust item catalog:
To compare Basic Cooling Tea against every item in its inventory category, browse All 198 items in Food.
Frequently asked questions about Basic Cooling Tea in Rust
How much food and water does the Basic Cooling Tea give in Rust?
The Basic Cooling Tea gives 30 hydration in Rust. It belongs to the Food category under numeric ID -1260229965 across 198 food and despawns after 20 minutes when dropped, while server administrators can spawn it directly in the F1 console using inventory.giveid -1260229965 10.
How do you get the Basic Cooling Tea in Rust?
The Basic Cooling Tea is mixed in Rust at a Mixing Table or a Cooking Workbench from 1 White Berry, 1 White Berry, 1 Blue Berry and 1 Blue Berry, placed in slots 1 to 4 in that order; one batch takes 5 seconds and makes 1.
What is the stack size of the Basic Cooling Tea in Rust?
The Basic Cooling Tea stacks to 10 per slot in Rust. Players can split a pile in half with middle-click drag or move a custom quantity with Shift-click drag across inventory slots, storage boxes, and the Tool Cupboard, while dropped copies despawn after 20 minutes under the Food category (item ID -1260229965).
What buff does the Basic Cooling Tea give in Rust, and how long does it last?
The Basic Cooling Tea grants cooling (20 minutes) and heat tolerance (20 minutes) plus 30 hydration when consumed in Rust. Listed under Food (ID -1260229965, shortname coolingtea), it stacks to 10 per slot and despawns after 20 minutes when dropped.
What is the item ID for the Basic Cooling Tea in Rust?
The Basic Cooling Tea has 32-bit signed item ID -1260229965 and shortname coolingtea in Rust. Server plugins, custom loot tables, Vending Machine listings, and automated Industrial Conveyor filter strings reference these two identifiers under the Food category (stack limit 10 units per slot).
What is the give command for the Basic Cooling Tea in Rust?
Server administrators in Rust spawn the Basic Cooling Tea in the F1 developer console with inventory.give coolingtea 10 or inventory.giveid -1260229965 10 for 10 units. Both console spawn commands work only on dedicated or local worlds where your Steam account holds administrator or moderator privileges.