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Basic Harvesting Tea
Food and drink,ConsumableConsumed when you use it.
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.
The boost adds to every hit on a corpse. Fractions carry over to the next hit.
One harvesting tea runs at a time: drinking a second one replaces whichever has less time left. A tea of another kind runs alongside it.
Bear Pie and Rich Bear Pie multiply the boost of an active ore, wood, scrap or harvesting tea. With no tea running there is nothing for them to multiply.
Basic Harvesting Tea stats, mechanics, and overview in Rust
In Rust, Basic Harvesting Tea is a food and drink in the Food category (item ID #1516531815, console shortname harvestingtea). 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 harvesting tea, provides hydration and temporarily increases the amount of resources you receive from harvesting corpses a small amount.
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 harvestingtea in Industrial Conveyors for automated box sorting
Basic Harvesting Tea crafting, blueprint progression, and recycling in Rust
In Rust, Basic Harvesting 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 Harvesting Tea compares to related food in Rust
When comparing Basic Harvesting 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 Harvesting Tea
Food
10 per slot
Mixing Table
No blueprint
Not recyclable
Advanced Cooling Tea
Food
10 per slot
Mixing Table
No blueprint
Not recyclable
Advanced Crafting Quality Tea
Food
10 per slot
Mixing Table
No blueprint
Not recyclable
Advanced Warming Tea
Food
10 per slot
Mixing Table
No blueprint
Not recyclable
To compare Basic Harvesting Tea against every item in its inventory category, browse All 198 items in Food.
Frequently asked questions about Basic Harvesting Tea in Rust
How much food and water does the Basic Harvesting Tea give in Rust?
The Basic Harvesting Tea gives 30 hydration in Rust. It belongs to the Food category under numeric ID 1516531815 across 198 food and despawns after 20 minutes when dropped, while server administrators can spawn it directly in the F1 console using inventory.giveid 1516531815 10.
How do you get the Basic Harvesting Tea in Rust?
The Basic Harvesting Tea is mixed in Rust at a Mixing Table or a Cooking Workbench from 1 Yellow Berry, 1 Green Berry, 1 Green Berry and 1 Green Berry, placed in slots 1 to 4 in that order; one batch takes 5 seconds and makes 1.
How long does the Basic Harvesting Tea take to despawn in Rust?
Dropped on the ground in Rust, the Basic Harvesting Tea despawns after 20 minutes by default. Picking it back up into a player inventory or storing it inside a base container immediately resets that ground despawn timer, which the server scales by item rarity tier.
What buff does the Basic Harvesting Tea give in Rust, and how long does it last?
The Basic Harvesting Tea grants a +35% harvesting boost for 20 minutes plus 30 hydration when consumed in Rust. Listed under Food (ID 1516531815, shortname harvestingtea), it stacks to 10 per slot and despawns after 20 minutes when dropped. It belongs to the Food category in Rust.
What is the item ID for the Basic Harvesting Tea in Rust?
The Basic Harvesting Tea has 32-bit signed item ID 1516531815 and shortname harvestingtea 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 Harvesting Tea in Rust?
Server administrators in Rust spawn the Basic Harvesting Tea in the F1 developer console with inventory.give harvestingtea 10 or inventory.giveid 1516531815 10 for 10 units. Both console spawn commands work only on dedicated or local worlds where your Steam account holds administrator or moderator privileges.