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Orange Roughy

Food and drink, ,

Up to 5 Orange Roughys fit in one inventory slot.

Where to find the Orange Roughy

Bait
bait value 5 or more

Gutting and composting

Gutting gives
18 Bone Fragments, 18 Raw Fish, 18 Animal Fat, plus one of 6 Scrap, 1 Blue Keycard, 8 Cloth, 3 Pistol Bullet or 1 Flare, each 1 in 5
Composts into
0.8 fertilizer, bait value 0

Orange Roughy stats, mechanics, and overview in Rust

In Rust, Orange Roughy is a food and drink in the Food category (item ID #-1904821376, console shortname fish.orangeroughy). 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 rare fish found in the depths of the ocean. Eats everything, so you never know what you'll find in it's stomach.

  • 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 fish.orangeroughy in Industrial Conveyors for automated box sorting

Orange Roughy crafting, blueprint progression, and recycling in Rust

In Rust, Orange Roughy 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 Orange Roughy compares to related food in Rust

When comparing Orange Roughy 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.

ItemCategoryStack LimitCraft / SourceTech Tree / ResearchGreen Recycler Yield
Orange Roughy Food5 per slotWorld loot / gatherNo blueprintNot recyclable
Small Shark Food5 per slotWorld loot / gatherNo blueprintNot recyclable
Catfish Food5 per slotWorld loot / gatherNo blueprintNot recyclable
Anchovy Food10 per slotWorld loot / gatherNo blueprintNot recyclable

Related items

Compare Orange Roughy with closely related food and drink sheets in the Rust item catalog:

To compare Orange Roughy against every item in its inventory category, browse All 198 items in Food.

Frequently asked questions about Orange Roughy in Rust

How do you get the Orange Roughy in Rust?

The Orange Roughy is caught fishing in Rust. It belongs to the Food category under numeric ID -1904821376 across 198 food and despawns after 5 minutes when dropped, with F1 console command inventory.giveid -1904821376 5 across 198 published Food entries (18 with crafting blueprints).

How much Fertilizer does the Orange Roughy give in a Composter in Rust?

The Orange Roughy 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 -1904821376, shortname fish.orangeroughy), it stacks to 5 per slot and despawns after 5 minutes when dropped.

What does gutting the Orange Roughy give in Rust?

The Orange Roughy 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 -1904821376 (shortname fish.orangeroughy), it stacks up to 5 per slot and despawns after 5 minutes on the ground.

Does the Orange Roughy lose condition or require repairs in Rust?

The Orange Roughy has no durability bar in Rust and never loses condition in storage or on the belt, so condition never degrades during use. Grouped with 198 food entries under Food, it stacks to 5 per slot and despawns in 5 minutes.

How many units of the Orange Roughy fit in a container or inventory in Rust?

The Orange Roughy stacks up to 5 units per slot in Rust, allowing a 24-slot main player inventory to carry 120 units and a 48-slot large wood box to hold 240 units. Within the Food category (198 items), it uses item ID -1904821376 and despawns after 5 minutes.

What is the item ID for the Orange Roughy in Rust?

The Orange Roughy has 32-bit signed item ID -1904821376 and shortname fish.orangeroughy 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).

What is the give command for the Orange Roughy in Rust?

Server administrators in Rust spawn the Orange Roughy in the F1 developer console with inventory.give fish.orangeroughy 5 or inventory.giveid -1904821376 5 for 5 units. Both console spawn commands work only on dedicated or local worlds where your Steam account holds administrator or moderator privileges.