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Wheat
Food and drink,Uncommon,ConsumableConsumed when you use it.,CompostableGoes in the composter.
One Wheat gives 75 calories and 10 hydration, plus 6 health over time.
In Rust, Wheat is a food and drink in the Food category (item ID #1178325727, console shortname wheat). 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.
A bundle of wheat. Edible, but better off in a cooking recipe.
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 wheat in Industrial Conveyors for automated box sorting
Wheat crafting, blueprint progression, and recycling in Rust
In Rust, Wheat 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 Wheat compares to related food in Rust
When comparing Wheat 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
Wheat
Food
20 per slot
World loot / gather
No blueprint
Not recyclable
Advanced Anti-Rad Tea
Food
10 per slot
Mixing Table
No blueprint
Not recyclable
Mr Spice Can
Food
1 per slot
World loot / gather
No blueprint
Not recyclable
Raw Snake Meat
Food
20 per slot
World loot / gather
No blueprint
Not recyclable
Related items
Compare Wheat with closely related food and drink sheets in the Rust item catalog:
To compare Wheat against every item in its inventory category, browse All 198 items in Food.
Frequently asked questions about Wheat in Rust
How much food and water does the Wheat give in Rust?
The Wheat gives 75 calories, 10 hydration and 6 health over time in Rust. It belongs to the Food category under numeric ID 1178325727 across 198 food, while F1 console command inventory.giveid 1178325727 20 spawns 20 units for testing across 198 published Food entries.
How do you get the Wheat in Rust?
The Wheat is picked up off the ground on the map in Rust. It sits in the Food catalog with item ID 1178325727 alongside 197 related food, while F1 console command inventory.giveid 1178325727 20 spawns 20 units for testing across 198 published Food entries.
How long does the Wheat take to despawn in Rust?
Dropped on the ground in Rust, the Wheat 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 Wheat in Rust?
The Wheat 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 1178325727).
What is the item ID for the Wheat in Rust?
The Wheat has 32-bit signed item ID 1178325727 and shortname wheat 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 Wheat in Rust?
Server administrators in Rust spawn the Wheat in the F1 developer console with inventory.give wheat 20 or inventory.giveid 1178325727 20 for 20 units. Both console spawn commands work only on dedicated or local worlds where your Steam account holds administrator or moderator privileges.