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One Bread Loaf gives 150 calories and 10 hydration, plus 8 health over time.
Cooking Workbench recipe
Wheat×520s per batch, yields 1
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 20s.
Crates, barrels and NPCs that drop the Bread Loaf, most likely first
| From | Chance | Amount |
|---|---|---|
 Underwater Lab Food Crate | 27.1% | 1 to 3 |
 Trash Pile | 23.6% | 1 to 3 |
 Food Cache | 22.5% | 1 to 6 |
 Shore Crate | 18.7% | 1 to 3 |
 Ration Box | 12.9% | 1 to 2 |
Chance is for one container opened or one NPC killed. Amount is how many it holds when it holds any.
In Rust, Bread Loaf is a food and drink in the Food category (item ID #281099360, console shortname bread.loaf). 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 5 minutes.
A loaf of bread, eating it provides a boost to health, hunger and hydration. Feeding to a horse will provide a boost to its digestion and dung production for a short time.
In Rust, Bread Loaf has no workbench recipe: it is mixed at a Cooking Workbench, 20 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.
Only two of the 167 foods and drinks give more calories than the Bread Loaf.
When comparing Bread Loaf against related food in Rust, mix it at a Cooking Workbench (20 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bread Loaf | Food | 10 per slot | Cooking Workbench | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
| Advanced Wood Tea | Food | 10 per slot | Mixing Table | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
| Spoiled Fish Meat | Food | 20 per slot | World loot / gather | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
| Advanced Cooling Tea | Food | 10 per slot | Mixing Table | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
Compare Bread Loaf with closely related food and drink sheets in the Rust item catalog:
To compare Bread Loaf against every item in its inventory category, browse All 198 items in Food.
The Bread Loaf gives 150 calories, 10 hydration and 8 health over time in Rust. It belongs to the Food category under numeric ID 281099360 across 198 food, with F1 console command inventory.giveid 281099360 10 across 198 published Food entries (18 with crafting blueprints).
The Bread Loaf is mixed in Rust at a Cooking Workbench from 5 Wheat, in the first slot; one batch takes 20 seconds and makes 1. It belongs to the Food category under numeric ID 281099360 across 198 food across 198 published Food entries.
Dropped on the ground in Rust, the Bread Loaf despawns after 5 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.
The Bread Loaf drops from 5 container and NPC loot tables in Rust, led by Underwater Lab Food Crate (27.1% chance), Trash Pile (23.6% chance), and Food Cache (22.5% chance). Each listed probability reflects a single container opened or NPC killed, and found copies can be repaired or researched at base.
The Bread Loaf breaks down in a Composter into 0.2 Fertilizer per unit in Rust, or 2 Fertilizer per stack of 10. Under the Food category (ID 281099360, shortname bread.loaf), it carries a bait value of 1, stacks to 10 per slot and despawns after 5 minutes when dropped.
The Bread Loaf has 32-bit signed item ID 281099360 and shortname bread.loaf 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).
Server administrators in Rust spawn the Bread Loaf in the F1 developer console with inventory.give bread.loaf 10 or inventory.giveid 281099360 10 for 10 units. Both console spawn commands work only on dedicated or local worlds where your Steam account holds administrator or moderator privileges.