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Gutting the Catfish gives 18 Bone Fragments, 18 Raw Fish and 18 Animal Fat.
In Rust, Catfish is a food and drink in the Food category (item ID #-587989372, console shortname fish.catfish). In active play, it follows standard server rules for food and drink gear across procedural maps. Inventory storage stacks up to 5 units per slot, and uncollected ground drops despawn after 5 minutes.
A large, whiskered fresh water based predator. Eats everything, so you never know what you'll find in it's stomach.
In Rust, Catfish 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.
When comparing Catfish 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catfish | Food | 5 per slot | World loot / gather | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
| Yellow Perch | Food | 10 per slot | World loot / gather | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
| Anchovy | Food | 10 per slot | World loot / gather | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
| Small Shark | Food | 5 per slot | World loot / gather | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
Compare Catfish with closely related food and drink sheets in the Rust item catalog:
To compare Catfish against every item in its inventory category, browse All 198 items in Food.
The Catfish is caught fishing in rivers and swamps in Rust. It belongs to the Food category under numeric ID -587989372 across 198 food, while server administrators can spawn it directly in the F1 console using inventory.giveid -587989372 5 across 198 published Food entries.
Dropped on the ground in Rust, the Catfish despawns after 5 minutes by default. Moving it into a storage box, locker, or player inventory immediately cancels the ground despawn countdown, which the server assigns by item rarity tier to prevent dropped loot from lagging active worlds.
The Catfish stacks to 5 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 5 minutes under the Food category (item ID -587989372).
The Catfish breaks down in a Composter into 0.8 Fertilizer per unit in Rust, or 4 Fertilizer per stack of 5. Under the Food category (ID -587989372, shortname fish.catfish), it stacks to 5 per slot and despawns after 5 minutes when dropped.
The Catfish yields 18 Bone Fragments and 18 Raw Fish and 18 Animal Fat when gutted from the inventory screen in Rust. Filed under the Food category with numeric item ID -587989372 (shortname fish.catfish), it stacks up to 5 per slot and despawns after 5 minutes on the ground.
The Catfish has 32-bit signed item ID -587989372 and shortname fish.catfish 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 5 units per slot).
Server administrators in Rust spawn the Catfish in the F1 developer console with inventory.give fish.catfish 5 or inventory.giveid -587989372 5 for 5 units. Both console spawn commands work only on dedicated or local worlds where your Steam account holds administrator or moderator privileges.