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Pumpkin

Food and drink, Uncommon, , , ,

One Pumpkin is worth 80 calories and goes off after 48 hours.

Pumpkin stats

Healing over time
+8 over 30s
Calories
+80
Hydration
+30
Leaves behind
1 to 2 Pumpkin Seeds

Spoiling and composting

Spoils
after 48 hours, into Spoiled Produce
Composts into
0.1 fertilizer, bait value 1

Where to find the Pumpkin

Pumpkin lying on the ground, ready to pick up

NameYou get
Pumpkin1

Everything on the map you can pick up

What the Pumpkin is looted from

Crates, barrels and NPCs that drop the Pumpkin, most likely first

FromChanceAmount
Food Crate21.3%1 to 3
Food Cache14.6%1 to 6

Chance is for one container opened or one NPC killed. Amount is how many it holds when it holds any.

Every loot container, each with its own page

Pumpkin recycling

3 items give back Pumpkin in a recycler

What one of each item gives back in Pumpkin, 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 (5)

Mixed at the Cooking Workbench

Pumpkin stats, mechanics, and overview in Rust

In Rust, Pumpkin is a food and drink in the Food category (item ID #-567909622, console shortname pumpkin). 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 20 minutes.

An edible vegetable that can also be worn as a hat. Eating it provides a small boost to health, hunger, and thirst.

  • Acquisition profile (game files): Uncraftable in vanilla Rust (2 loot tables, 3 downstream recipes)
  • Monument recycling yield: Non-recyclable at green, yellow, or red units (3 downstream recipes)
  • Maintenance rule: Carries no condition wear bar and needs no bench maintenance
  • Conveyor & sorting profile: Filter by shortname pumpkin in Industrial Conveyors for automated box sorting

Pumpkin crafting, blueprint progression, and recycling in Rust

In Rust, Pumpkin has no player crafting recipe; acquisition relies on 2 world loot tables read from the Rust game files. Monument recyclers do not break this item down into raw components, while 3 downstream crafting recipes use it. Equipped and stored units carry no durability wear bar.

What it is used for

The Pumpkin goes into the Carvable Pumpkin, the Jack O Lantern Angry and the Jack O Lantern Happy.

How Pumpkin compares to related food in Rust

When comparing Pumpkin 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
Pumpkin Food20 per slotWorld loot / gatherNo blueprintNot recyclable
Rich Beef Pie Food3 per slotCooking WorkbenchNo blueprintNot recyclable
Spoiled Deer Meat Food20 per slotWorld loot / gatherNo blueprintNot recyclable
Pure Crafting Quality Tea Food10 per slotMixing TableNo blueprintNot recyclable

Related items

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

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

Frequently asked questions about Pumpkin in Rust

How much food and water does the Pumpkin give in Rust?

The Pumpkin gives 80 calories, 30 hydration and 8 health over time in Rust. It belongs to the Food category under numeric ID -567909622 across 198 food, while F1 console command inventory.giveid -567909622 20 spawns 20 units for testing across 198 published Food entries.

How long does the Pumpkin take to spoil in Rust?

The Pumpkin spoils after 48 hours and turns into Spoiled Produce in Rust. It sits in the Food catalog with item ID -567909622 alongside 197 related food, while F1 console command inventory.giveid -567909622 20 spawns 20 units for testing across 198 published Food entries.

How do you get the Pumpkin in Rust?

The Pumpkin is picked up off the ground on the map in Rust. It comes back from 3 items in a recycler. It is indexed under the Food category alongside 197 other food in Rust (item ID -567909622), stacking to 20 units per slot.

How long does the Pumpkin take to despawn in Rust?

Dropped on the ground in Rust, the Pumpkin despawns after 20 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.

What is the stack size of the Pumpkin in Rust?

The Pumpkin stacks to 20 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 20 minutes under the Food category (item ID -567909622).

What is the item ID for the Pumpkin in Rust?

The Pumpkin has 32-bit signed item ID -567909622 and shortname pumpkin 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 Pumpkin in Rust?

Server administrators in Rust spawn the Pumpkin in the F1 developer console with inventory.give pumpkin 20 or inventory.giveid -567909622 20 for 20 units. Both console spawn commands work only on dedicated or local worlds where your Steam account holds administrator or moderator privileges.