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Gutting the Herring gives 1 Bone Fragments, 2 Raw Fish and 1 Animal Fat.
In Rust, Herring is a food and drink in the Food category (item ID #-1698937385, console shortname fish.herring). 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 small fish commonly found in a variety of water sources.
In Rust, Herring 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 Herring 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Herring | Food | 10 per slot | World loot / gather | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
| Orange Roughy | Food | 5 per slot | World loot / gather | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
| Small Shark | Food | 5 per slot | World loot / gather | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
| Sardine | Food | 10 per slot | World loot / gather | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
Compare Herring with closely related food and drink sheets in the Rust item catalog:
To compare Herring against every item in its inventory category, browse All 198 items in Food.
The Herring is caught fishing in rivers, the sea and swamps in Rust. It belongs to the Food category under numeric ID -1698937385 across 198 food and despawns after 5 minutes when dropped on a default server, with F1 console command inventory.giveid -1698937385 10.
Dropped on the ground in Rust, the Herring 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 Herring 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 5 minutes under the Food category (item ID -1698937385).
The Herring breaks down in a Composter into 0.8 Fertilizer per unit in Rust, or 8 Fertilizer per stack of 10. Under the Food category (ID -1698937385, shortname fish.herring), it carries a bait value of 2, stacks to 10 per slot and despawns after 5 minutes when dropped.
The Herring has 32-bit signed item ID -1698937385 and shortname fish.herring 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 Herring in the F1 developer console with inventory.give fish.herring 10 or inventory.giveid -1698937385 10 for 10 units. Both console spawn commands work only on dedicated or local worlds where your Steam account holds administrator or moderator privileges.