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Radioactive Water
Resource,ConsumableConsumed when you use it.
Dropped and left on the ground, Radioactive Water is gone after 5 minutes.
Radioactive Water stats
Health
-5over 2s
Hydration
+10over 5s
Radiation
+5over 3s
Poison
+5over 3s
Each sip uses 50 ml.
Radioactive Water stats, mechanics, and overview in Rust
In Rust, Radioactive Water is a resource in the Resources category (item ID #1811780502, console shortname water.radioactive). In active play, it follows standard server rules for resource gear across procedural maps. Inventory storage requires a liquid vessel, and uncollected ground drops despawn after 5 minutes.
Glowing water. Consuming will damage your health and irradiate you.
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 water.radioactive in Industrial Conveyors for automated box sorting
Radioactive Water crafting, blueprint progression, and recycling in Rust
In Rust, Radioactive Water 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 Resources catalog. Equipped and stored units carry no durability wear bar.
How Radioactive Water compares to related resources in Rust
When comparing Radioactive Water 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
Radioactive Water
Resources
Liquid vessel
World loot / gather
No blueprint
Not recyclable
Salt Water
Resources
Liquid vessel
World loot / gather
No blueprint
Not recyclable
Water
Resources
Liquid vessel
World loot / gather
No blueprint
Not recyclable
Scrap
Resources
1,000 per slot
World loot / gather
No blueprint
Not recyclable
Related items
Compare Radioactive Water with closely related resource sheets in the Rust item catalog:
To compare Radioactive Water against every item in its inventory category, browse All 36 items in Resources.
Frequently asked questions about Radioactive Water in Rust
Can you craft or research Radioactive Water at a workbench in Rust?
Radioactive Water has no crafting blueprint in Rust and cannot be made at a workbench or Research Table. Within the Resources category (3 craftable of 36), it spawns in the world or via inventory.give water.radioactive 10000, with item ID 1811780502 and despawns after 5 minutes when dropped.
Can you recycle Radioactive Water at a monument recycler in Rust?
Radioactive Water cannot be shredded inside a monument green recycler (50% base efficiency) or a safe-zone yellow recycler (40% base efficiency) in Rust. No published item recycles into it across the 36 Resources entries either, and dropped copies despawn after 5 minutes (item ID 1811780502).
Does Radioactive Water lose condition or require repairs in Rust?
Radioactive Water has no durability bar in Rust and never loses condition in storage or on the belt, so condition never degrades during use. Grouped with 36 resources entries under Resources, it stacks to 1 per slot and despawns in 5 minutes.
How many inventory slots does Radioactive Water take in Rust?
Radioactive Water is measured in millilitres inside fluid containers such as jugs, bottles, and water barrels rather than loose inventory stacks in Rust. On the ground, it despawns after 5 minutes and is indexed under the Resources category with item ID 1811780502 (shortname water.radioactive).
What happens when Radioactive Water is dropped on the ground in Rust?
Radioactive Water remains on the ground for 5 minutes (300 seconds) before despawning on a default Rust server. Picking it back up into an inventory or storage box resets that timer under the Resources category (item ID 1811780502). It belongs to the Resources category in Rust.
What is the item ID for Radioactive Water in Rust?
Radioactive Water has 32-bit signed item ID 1811780502 and shortname water.radioactive in Rust. Server plugins, custom loot tables, Vending Machine listings, and automated Industrial Conveyor filter strings reference these two identifiers under the Resources category (held in fluid containers).
What is the give command for Radioactive Water in Rust?
Server administrators in Rust spawn Radioactive Water in the F1 developer console by typing inventory.give water.radioactive 1 or inventory.giveid 1811780502 1 for a single unit. Both console spawn commands work only on dedicated or local worlds where your Steam account holds administrator or moderator privileges.