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Spoiled Horse Meat
Food and drink,ConsumableConsumed when you use it.,CompostableGoes in the composter.
One Spoiled Horse Meat still gives 10 calories but adds 10 poison.
Spoiled Horse Meat stats, mechanics, and overview in Rust
In Rust, Spoiled Horse Meat is a food and drink in the Food category (item ID #-724146494, console shortname horsemeat.spoiled). 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.
Spoiled Horse Meat. Consuming will damage your health.
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 horsemeat.spoiled in Industrial Conveyors for automated box sorting
Spoiled Horse Meat crafting, blueprint progression, and recycling in Rust
In Rust, Spoiled Horse Meat 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 Spoiled Horse Meat compares to related food in Rust
When comparing Spoiled Horse Meat 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
Spoiled Horse Meat
Food
20 per slot
World loot / gather
No blueprint
Not recyclable
Raw Horse Meat
Food
20 per slot
World loot / gather
No blueprint
Not recyclable
Cooked Horse Meat
Food
20 per slot
World loot / gather
No blueprint
Not recyclable
Burnt Horse Meat
Food
20 per slot
World loot / gather
No blueprint
Not recyclable
Related items
Compare Spoiled Horse Meat with closely related food and drink sheets in the Rust item catalog:
To compare Spoiled Horse Meat against every item in its inventory category, browse All 198 items in Food.
Frequently asked questions about Spoiled Horse Meat in Rust
How much food and water does the Spoiled Horse Meat give in Rust?
The Spoiled Horse Meat gives 10 calories and 2 hydration, and adds 10 poison in Rust. It belongs to the Food category under numeric ID -724146494 across 198 food, while server administrators can spawn it directly in the F1 console using inventory.giveid -724146494 20.
How long does the Spoiled Horse Meat take to despawn in Rust?
Dropped on the ground in Rust, the Spoiled Horse Meat 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.
What is the stack size of the Spoiled Horse Meat in Rust?
The Spoiled Horse Meat 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 -724146494).
How much Fertilizer does the Spoiled Horse Meat give in a Composter in Rust?
The Spoiled Horse Meat breaks down in a Composter into 0.2 Fertilizer per unit in Rust, or 4 Fertilizer per stack of 20. Under the Food category (ID -724146494, shortname horsemeat.spoiled), it stacks to 20 per slot and despawns after 5 minutes when dropped.
What category and item family does the Spoiled Horse Meat belong to in Rust?
The Spoiled Horse Meat belongs to the Food category (198 published items, 18 with crafting blueprints) and sits in the food and drink display family alongside 197 other food items in Rust. For server administration and conveyor filters, it uses shortname horsemeat.spoiled and item ID -724146494.
What is the item ID for the Spoiled Horse Meat in Rust?
The Spoiled Horse Meat has 32-bit signed item ID -724146494 and shortname horsemeat.spoiled 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 Spoiled Horse Meat in Rust?
Server administrators in Rust spawn the Spoiled Horse Meat in the F1 developer console with inventory.give horsemeat.spoiled 20 or inventory.giveid -724146494 20 for 20 units. Both console spawn commands work only on dedicated or local worlds where your Steam account holds administrator or moderator privileges.