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Salt Water
Resource,ConsumableConsumed when you use it.
Dropped and left on the ground, Salt Water is gone after 5 minutes.
Salt Water stats
Health
-2over 2s
Calories
-15over 4s
Hydration
-20over 5s
Poison
+5over 3s
Each sip uses 50 ml.
Salt Water stats, mechanics, and overview in Rust
In Rust, Salt Water is a resource in the Resources category (item ID #-277057363, console shortname water.salt). 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.
Water with a high salt content. Consuming will damage your health.
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.salt in Industrial Conveyors for automated box sorting
Salt Water crafting, blueprint progression, and recycling in Rust
In Rust, Salt 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 Salt Water compares to related resources in Rust
When comparing Salt 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
Salt Water
Resources
Liquid vessel
World loot / gather
No blueprint
Not recyclable
Radioactive Water
Resources
Liquid vessel
World loot / gather
No blueprint
Not recyclable
Water
Resources
Liquid vessel
World loot / gather
No blueprint
Not recyclable
Plant Fiber
Resources
1,000 per slot
World loot / gather
No blueprint
Not recyclable
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To compare Salt Water against every item in its inventory category, browse All 36 items in Resources.
Frequently asked questions about Salt Water in Rust
What category and item family does Salt Water belong to in Rust?
Salt Water belongs to the Resources category (36 published items, 3 with crafting blueprints) and sits in the resource display family alongside 35 other resources items in Rust. For server administration and conveyor filters, it uses shortname water.salt and item ID -277057363.
Can you craft or research Salt Water at a workbench in Rust?
Salt 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.salt 10000, with item ID -277057363 and despawns after 5 minutes when dropped.
Can you recycle Salt Water at a monument recycler in Rust?
Salt 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 -277057363).
Does Salt Water lose condition or require repairs in Rust?
Salt 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.
What is the item ID for Salt Water in Rust?
Salt Water has 32-bit signed item ID -277057363 and shortname water.salt 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 Salt Water in Rust?
Server administrators in Rust spawn Salt Water in the F1 developer console by typing inventory.give water.salt 1 or inventory.giveid -277057363 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.