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Raw Fish

Food and drink, , Cookable, ,

One Raw Fish gives 5 calories and 1 hydration.

Raw Fish stats

Calories
+5
Hydration
+1

Cooking, spoiling and composting

Cooks into
1 Cooked Fish every 2.5s in a Barbeque, 10s in a Camp Fire, 10s in a Cursed Cauldron, 10s in a Hobo Barrel, 10s in a Skull Fire Pit or 10s in a Stone Fireplace, from a single stack
Spoils
after 6 hours, into Spoiled Fish Meat
Composts into
0.2 fertilizer, bait value 0.5

Where to find the Raw Fish

Raw Fish from one animal, tool by tool

AnimalHatchet +12, keeps 100%Mace +5, keeps 83%Jackhammer +3, keeps 71%Chainsaw +1, keeps 67%Stone Hatchet +1, keeps 60%Rock +4, keeps 50%Pickaxe +3, keeps 45%
Shark181513141198

What a full node, tree or animal leaves in your inventory, finish bonus included when the tool earns it.

Hatchet column: also Salvaged Axe, Sickle, Bone Knife, Combat Knife, Butcher Knife, Vampire Stake, Skinning Knife, Frontier Hatchet, Prototype Hatchet, Abyss Metal Hatchet, Obsidian Bone Knife and Sunken Combat Knife.

Mace column: also Machete, Longsword, Baseball Bat, Salvaged Sword and Salvaged Cleaver.

Jackhammer column: also Stone Pickaxe, Salvaged Icepick and Concrete Pickaxe.

Chainsaw column: also Kreig Chainsword.

Stone Hatchet column: also Concrete Hatchet.

Rock column: also Skull, Bone Club, Jungle Rock and Candy Cane Club.

Pickaxe column: also Salvaged Hammer, Prototype Pickaxe and Abyss Metal Pickaxe.

Every animal, with its health and what it drops

The Raw Fish from gutting fish

FromYou getChance
Small Shark20Every time
Catfish18Every time
Orange Roughy18Every time
Salmon18Every time
Yellow Perch5Every time
Small Trout4Every time
Herring2Every time
Anchovy1Every time
Sardine1Every time

What the Raw Fish is looted from

Crates, barrels and NPCs that drop the Raw Fish, most likely first

FromChanceAmount
Supermarket Freezer (full restock)66.7%5 to 40
Supermarket Freezer (partial restock)50%3

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

Raw Fish stats, mechanics, and overview in Rust

In Rust, Raw Fish is a food and drink in the Food category (item ID #989925924, console shortname fish.raw). 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.

  • Acquisition profile (game files): Uncraftable in vanilla Rust (2 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.raw in Industrial Conveyors for automated box sorting

Raw Fish crafting, blueprint progression, and recycling in Rust

In Rust, Raw Fish 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 it serves its dedicated role inside the Food catalog. Equipped and stored units carry no durability wear bar.

How Raw Fish compares to related food in Rust

When comparing Raw Fish 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
Raw Fish Food20 per slotWorld loot / gatherNo blueprintNot recyclable
Minnows Food10 per slotWorld loot / gatherNo blueprintNot recyclable
Advanced Rad. Removal Tea Food10 per slotWorld loot / gatherNo blueprintNot recyclable
Rad. Removal Tea Food10 per slotWorld loot / gatherNo blueprintNot recyclable

Related items

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

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

Frequently asked questions about Raw Fish in Rust

How much food and water does the Raw Fish give in Rust?

The Raw Fish gives 5 calories and 1 hydration in Rust. It belongs to the Food category under numeric ID 989925924 across 198 food, while server administrators can spawn it directly in the F1 console using inventory.giveid 989925924 20 across 198 published Food entries.

How long does the Raw Fish take to spoil in Rust?

The Raw Fish spoils after 6 hours and turns into Spoiled Fish Meat in Rust. It sits in the Food catalog with item ID 989925924 alongside 197 related food, while server administrators can spawn it directly in the F1 console using inventory.giveid 989925924 20.

How long does the Raw Fish take to cook in Rust?

The Raw Fish turns into Cooked Fish at one unit every 2.5 seconds in the Barbeque, or every 10 seconds in the Camp Fire, Cursed Cauldron, Hobo Barrel, Skull Fire Pit and Stone Fireplace in Rust. It belongs to the Food category under numeric ID 989925924 across 198 food.

How do you get the Raw Fish in Rust?

The Raw Fish is harvested from the shark on the map in Rust. It comes from gutting 9 kinds of fish. It belongs to the Food category under numeric ID 989925924 across 198 food, stacking up to 20 units per inventory or container slot.

What is the stack size of the Raw Fish in Rust?

The Raw Fish 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 5 minutes under the Food category (item ID 989925924).

What is the item ID for the Raw Fish in Rust?

The Raw Fish has 32-bit signed item ID 989925924 and shortname fish.raw 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 Raw Fish in Rust?

Server administrators in Rust spawn the Raw Fish in the F1 developer console with inventory.give fish.raw 20 or inventory.giveid 989925924 20 for 20 units. Both console spawn commands work only on dedicated or local worlds where your Steam account holds administrator or moderator privileges.