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Sunflower Seed
Seed and plant,Deployable
The Sunflower Seed comes from picking wild Sunflower on the map.
Where to find the Sunflower Seed
What you pick up on the map to get the Sunflower Seed
Sunflower Seed stats, mechanics, and overview in Rust
In Rust, Sunflower Seed is a seed and plant in the Food category (item ID #1412103380, console shortname seed.sunflower). In active play, it follows standard server rules for seed and plant gear across procedural maps. Inventory storage stacks up to 50 units per slot, and uncollected ground drops despawn after 5 minutes.
Sunflower seeds can be found when picking wild Sunflowers.
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 seed.sunflower in Industrial Conveyors for automated box sorting
Sunflower Seed crafting, blueprint progression, and recycling in Rust
In Rust, Sunflower Seed 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 Sunflower Seed compares to related food in Rust
When comparing Sunflower Seed 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
Sunflower Seed
Food
50 per slot
World loot / gather
No blueprint
Not recyclable
Sunflower
Food
20 per slot
World loot / gather
No blueprint
Not recyclable
Sunflower Clone
Food
50 per slot
World loot / gather
No blueprint
Not recyclable
Corn Seed
Food
50 per slot
World loot / gather
No blueprint
Not recyclable
Related items
Compare Sunflower Seed with closely related seed and plant sheets in the Rust item catalog:
To compare Sunflower Seed against every item in its inventory category, browse All 198 items in Food.
Frequently asked questions about Sunflower Seed in Rust
How do you get the Sunflower Seed in Rust?
The Sunflower Seed is picked up from Sunflower on the map in Rust. It belongs to the Food category under numeric ID 1412103380 across 198 food and despawns after 5 minutes when dropped on a default server, with F1 console command inventory.giveid 1412103380 50.
How long does a dropped Sunflower Seed take to despawn in Rust?
Dropped on the ground in Rust, the Sunflower Seed 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 Sunflower Seed in Rust?
The Sunflower Seed stacks to 50 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 1412103380).
Where do you find the Sunflower Seed in Rust?
On the map, the Sunflower Seed is picked up from Sunflower in Rust. It belongs to the Food category under numeric ID 1412103380 across 198 food and despawns after 5 minutes when dropped on a default server, with F1 console command inventory.giveid 1412103380 50.
What category and item family does the Sunflower Seed belong to in Rust?
The Sunflower Seed belongs to the Food category (198 published items, 18 with crafting blueprints) and sits in the seed and plant display family alongside 197 other food items in Rust. For server administration and conveyor filters, it uses shortname seed.sunflower and item ID 1412103380.
What is the item ID for the Sunflower Seed in Rust?
The Sunflower Seed has 32-bit signed item ID 1412103380 and shortname seed.sunflower 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 50 units per slot).
What is the give command for the Sunflower Seed in Rust?
Server administrators in Rust spawn the Sunflower Seed in the F1 developer console with inventory.give seed.sunflower 50 or inventory.giveid 1412103380 50 for 50 units. Both console spawn commands work only on dedicated or local worlds where your Steam account holds administrator or moderator privileges.