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Blue Berry

Food and drink, Uncommon, , ,

One Blue Berry is worth 5 calories and goes off after 48 hours.

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Blue Berry stats

Calories: +5
Hydration: +2

Leaves behind: 1 to 2 Blue Berry Seeds

Spoiling and composting

Spoils: after 48 hours, into Spoiled Produce
Composts into: 0.01 fertilizer, bait value 1

Where to find the Blue Berry

Blue Berry lying on the ground, ready to pick up

Name	You get
Blue Berry	1

Everything on the map you can pick up

Used to craft (3)

Mixed at the Mixing Table and Cooking Workbench

Blue Berry stats, mechanics, and overview in Rust

In Rust, Blue Berry is a food and drink in the Food category (item ID #1112162468, console shortname blue.berry). In active play, it follows standard server rules for food and drink gear across procedural maps. Inventory storage stacks up to 20 units per slot, and uncollected ground drops despawn after 20 minutes.

A blue berry. Can be eaten or used in mixing table recipes to create teas.

Acquisition profile (game files): Uncraftable in vanilla Rust (0 loot tables, 0 downstream 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 blue.berry in Industrial Conveyors for automated box sorting

Blue Berry crafting, blueprint progression, and recycling in Rust

In Rust, Blue Berry has no player crafting recipe; acquisition relies on map collection, smelting, or vendor trades 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 Blue Berry compares to related food in Rust

When comparing Blue Berry against related food in Rust, prioritize farming its highest-probability monument containers or recycling surplus components at an unpowered radtown green recycler (fifty percent base yield, versus forty percent at safe-zone yellow units) because this item cannot be crafted at a player workbench.

Item	Category	Stack Limit	Craft / Source	Tech Tree / Research	Green Recycler Yield
Blue Berry	Food	20 per slot	World loot / gather	No blueprint	Not recyclable
White Berry	Food	20 per slot	World loot / gather	No blueprint	Not recyclable
Yellow Berry	Food	20 per slot	World loot / gather	No blueprint	Not recyclable
Black Berry	Food	20 per slot	World loot / gather	No blueprint	Not recyclable

Frequently asked questions about Blue Berry in Rust

How much food and water does the Blue Berry give in Rust?

The Blue Berry gives 5 calories and 2 hydration in Rust. It belongs to the Food category under numeric ID 1112162468 across 198 food, while server administrators can spawn it directly in the F1 console using inventory.giveid 1112162468 20 across 198 published Food entries.

How long does the Blue Berry take to spoil in Rust?

The Blue Berry spoils after 48 hours and turns into Spoiled Produce in Rust. It sits in the Food catalog with item ID 1112162468 alongside 197 related food, with F1 console command inventory.giveid 1112162468 20 across 198 published Food entries (18 with crafting blueprints).

How do you get the Blue Berry in Rust?

The Blue Berry is picked up off the ground on the map in Rust. It is indexed under the Food category alongside 197 other food in Rust (item ID 1112162468) and despawns after 20 minutes when dropped, with F1 console command inventory.giveid 1112162468 20.

How long does the Blue Berry take to despawn in Rust?

Dropped on the ground in Rust, the Blue Berry 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 is the stack size of the Blue Berry in Rust?

The Blue Berry stacks to 20 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 1112162468).

What is the item ID for the Blue Berry in Rust?

The Blue Berry has 32-bit signed item ID 1112162468 and shortname blue.berry 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 20 units per slot).

What is the give command for the Blue Berry in Rust?

Server administrators in Rust spawn the Blue Berry in the F1 developer console with inventory.give blue.berry 20 or inventory.giveid 1112162468 20 for 20 units. Both console spawn commands work only on dedicated or local worlds where your Steam account holds administrator or moderator privileges.