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Yellow Perch
Food and drink,CompostableGoes in the composter.,FishableCan be pulled out of the water while fishing.
Gutting the Yellow Perch gives 6 Bone Fragments, 5 Raw Fish and 9 Animal Fat.
Yellow Perch stats, mechanics, and overview in Rust
In Rust, Yellow Perch is a food and drink in the Food category (item ID #680234026, console shortname fish.yellowperch). In active play, it follows standard server rules for food and drink gear across procedural maps. Inventory storage stacks up to 10 units per slot, and uncollected ground drops despawn after 5 minutes.
A Yellow Perch, commonly found in freshwater rivers.
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.yellowperch in Industrial Conveyors for automated box sorting
Yellow Perch crafting, blueprint progression, and recycling in Rust
In Rust, Yellow Perch 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 Yellow Perch compares to related food in Rust
When comparing Yellow Perch 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
Yellow Perch
Food
10 per slot
World loot / gather
No blueprint
Not recyclable
Small Shark
Food
5 per slot
World loot / gather
No blueprint
Not recyclable
Small Trout
Food
10 per slot
World loot / gather
No blueprint
Not recyclable
Orange Roughy
Food
5 per slot
World loot / gather
No blueprint
Not recyclable
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To compare Yellow Perch against every item in its inventory category, browse All 198 items in Food.
Frequently asked questions about Yellow Perch in Rust
How do you get the Yellow Perch in Rust?
The Yellow Perch is caught fishing in rivers and swamps in Rust. It belongs to the Food category under numeric ID 680234026 across 198 food and despawns after 5 minutes when dropped, with F1 console command inventory.giveid 680234026 10 across 198 published Food entries.
What is the stack size of the Yellow Perch in Rust?
The Yellow Perch stacks to 10 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 680234026).
How much Fertilizer does the Yellow Perch give in a Composter in Rust?
The Yellow Perch breaks down in a Composter into 0.8 Fertilizer per unit in Rust, or 8 Fertilizer per stack of 10. Under the Food category (ID 680234026, shortname fish.yellowperch), it carries a bait value of 10, stacks to 10 per slot and despawns after 5 minutes when dropped.
What does gutting the Yellow Perch give in Rust?
The Yellow Perch yields 6 Bone Fragments and 5 Raw Fish and 9 Animal Fat when gutted from the inventory screen in Rust. Filed under the Food category with numeric item ID 680234026 (shortname fish.yellowperch), it stacks up to 10 per slot and despawns after 5 minutes on the ground.
Does the Yellow Perch lose condition or require repairs in Rust?
The Yellow Perch has no durability bar in Rust and never loses condition in storage or on the belt, so condition never degrades during use. Grouped with 198 food entries under Food, it stacks to 10 per slot and despawns in 5 minutes.
What is the item ID for the Yellow Perch in Rust?
The Yellow Perch has 32-bit signed item ID 680234026 and shortname fish.yellowperch 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 10 units per slot).
What is the give command for the Yellow Perch in Rust?
Server administrators in Rust spawn the Yellow Perch in the F1 developer console with inventory.give fish.yellowperch 10 or inventory.giveid 680234026 10 for 10 units. Both console spawn commands work only on dedicated or local worlds where your Steam account holds administrator or moderator privileges.