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Jar of Honey

Food and drink, ,

Up to 20 Jar of Honeys fit in one inventory slot.

StatsWhere to findRecycled fromUsed in

Jar of Honey stats

Healing over time: +3
Calories: +50
Radiation: -15

Composting

Composts into: 0.1 fertilizer, bait value 1

How the Jar of Honey is made

What turns into the Jar of Honey in each oven, and how long one item takes

From	In	You get	Time per item, one stack
Honeycomb	Large Furnace	1	0.13s
Honeycomb	Electric Furnace	1	0.4s
Honeycomb	Furnace	1	0.67s

Times are for one stack. Spread the same items over more slots and each stack slows down, while the oven keeps the same total pace.

Jar of Honey recycling

One item gives back Jar of Honey in a recycler

Item	Red recycler	Green recycler (powered)	Green recycler	Yellow recycler
Medical Honey Bandage	1 + 50%	1 + 20%	1	80%

What one of each item gives back in Jar of Honey, in perfect condition, most first by the green recycler’s figure. “1 + 50%” means 1 every time and a 50% chance of one more, and a percentage alone is the chance of getting one.

Used to craft (3)

Medical Honey Bandage 2

Mixed at the Cooking Workbench

Apple Pie 2
Rich Apple Pie 2

Jar of Honey stats, mechanics, and overview in Rust

In Rust, Jar of Honey is a food and drink in the Food category (item ID #1601800933, console shortname honey). 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 5 minutes.

A jar of honey. Good for reducing hunger and radiation, or could be saved for recipes. The source of the glass jar is a mystery.

Acquisition profile (game files): Uncraftable in vanilla Rust (0 loot tables, 1 downstream recipes)
Monument recycling yield: Non-recyclable at green, yellow, or red units (1 downstream recipes)
Maintenance rule: Carries no condition wear bar and needs no bench maintenance
Conveyor & sorting profile: Filter by shortname honey in Industrial Conveyors for automated box sorting

Jar of Honey crafting, blueprint progression, and recycling in Rust

In Rust, Jar of Honey 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 1 downstream crafting recipe uses it. Equipped and stored units carry no durability wear bar.

What it is used for

The Jar of Honey goes into the Medical Honey Bandage.

How Jar of Honey compares to related food in Rust

When comparing Jar of Honey 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
Jar of Honey	Food	20 per slot	World loot / gather	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 Jar of Honey against every item in its inventory category, browse All 198 items in Food.

Frequently asked questions about Jar of Honey in Rust

How much food and water does the Jar of Honey give in Rust?

The Jar of Honey gives 50 calories and 3 health over time, and takes away 15 radiation in Rust. It belongs to the Food category under numeric ID 1601800933 across 198 food, with F1 console command inventory.giveid 1601800933 20 across 198 published Food entries.

How do you get the Jar of Honey in Rust?

The Jar of Honey is smelted from Honeycomb in Rust. It comes back from 1 item in a recycler. It sits in the Food catalog with item ID 1601800933 alongside 197 related food and despawns after 5 minutes when dropped on a default server.

How long does the Jar of Honey take to despawn in Rust?

Dropped on the ground in Rust, the Jar of Honey 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.

How much Fertilizer does the Jar of Honey give in a Composter in Rust?

The Jar of Honey breaks down in a Composter into 0.1 Fertilizer per unit in Rust, or 2 Fertilizer per stack of 20. Under the Food category (ID 1601800933, shortname honey), it carries a bait value of 1, stacks to 20 per slot and despawns after 5 minutes when dropped.

What is the item ID for the Jar of Honey in Rust?

The Jar of Honey has 32-bit signed item ID 1601800933 and shortname honey 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 Jar of Honey in Rust?

Server administrators in Rust spawn the Jar of Honey in the F1 developer console with inventory.give honey 20 or inventory.giveid 1601800933 20 for 20 units. Both console spawn commands work only on dedicated or local worlds where your Steam account holds administrator or moderator privileges.