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Charcoal comes from burning Wood, with a 75% chance per piece in any furnace or campfire, and 2 recipes use it.
What turns into Charcoal in each oven, and how long one item takes
| From | In | You get | Time per item, one stack |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cooked Fish | Barbeque | 1 | 7.5s |
| Cooked Fish | Camp Fire | 1 | 30s |
| Cooked Fish | Cursed Cauldron | 1 | 30s |
| Cooked Fish | Hobo Barrel | 1 | 30s |
| Cooked Fish | Skull Fire Pit | 1 | 30s |
| Cooked Fish | Stone Fireplace | 1 | 30s |
| Burnt Pork | Barbeque | 1 | 15s |
| Burnt Pork | Camp Fire | 1 | 60s |
| Burnt Pork | Cursed Cauldron | 1 | 60s |
| Burnt Pork | Hobo Barrel | 1 | 60s |
| Burnt Pork | Skull Fire Pit | 1 | 60s |
| Burnt Pork | Stone Fireplace | 1 | 60s |
Times are for one stack. Spread the same items over more slots and each stack slows down, while the oven keeps the same total pace.
2 items give back Charcoal in a recycler
| Item | Red recycler | Green recycler (powered) | Green recycler | Yellow recycler |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Snowman | 37 + 50% | 30 | 25 | 20 |
 Gun Powder | 2 + 25% | 1 + 80% | 1 + 50% | 1 + 20% |
What one of each item gives back in Charcoal, in perfect condition, most first by the green recycler’s figure. “37 + 50%” means 37 every time and a 50% chance of one more.
Gun Powder 30
Snowman 50
Gun Powder 20In Rust, Charcoal is a resource in the Resources category (item ID #-1938052175, console shortname charcoal). In active play, it follows standard server rules for resource gear across procedural maps. Inventory storage stacks up to 1,000 units per slot, and uncollected ground drops despawn after 5 minutes.
Byproduct from campfires and furnaces used for crafting gunpowder.
In Rust, Charcoal 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 2 downstream crafting recipes use it. Equipped and stored units carry no durability wear bar.
Charcoal goes into Gun Powder and the Snowman.
When comparing Charcoal against related resources 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charcoal | Resources | 1,000 per slot | World loot / gather | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
| Battery - Small | Resources | 1 per slot | World loot / gather | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
| Bone Fragments | Resources | 1,000 per slot | World loot / gather | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
| Empty Can Of Beans | Resources | 10 per slot | World loot / gather | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
To compare Charcoal against every item in its inventory category, browse All 36 items in Resources.
In Rust, Charcoal sits in the Resources catalog with item ID -1938052175 (shortname charcoal), stacking up to 1,000 units per inventory slot with a 5 minutes ground despawn timer across 36 published Resources entries. It goes into 2 recipes: Gun Powder alongside the Snowman.
Charcoal is what Cooked Fish and Burnt Pork turn into when left on the heat in Rust. It is what Door Key and Wood leave behind as they burn. It comes back from 2 items in a recycler.
Dropped on the ground in Rust, Charcoal despawns after 5 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.
Charcoal stacks to 1,000 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 Resources category (item ID -1938052175).
Charcoal has 32-bit signed item ID -1938052175 and shortname charcoal in Rust. Server plugins, custom loot tables, Vending Machine listings, and automated Industrial Conveyor filter strings reference these two identifiers under the Resources category (stack limit 1,000 units per slot).
Server administrators in Rust spawn Charcoal in the F1 developer console with inventory.give charcoal 1,000 or inventory.giveid -1938052175 1,000 for 1,000 units. Both console spawn commands work only on dedicated or local worlds where your Steam account holds administrator or moderator privileges.