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Cooking

Advanced recipe system with 50+ meals, custom ingredients, and powerful buffs

Farming & Crafting Carbon ✓
Recipe Menu
/cook
Open from anywhere
Recipes
50+
All with unique buffs
Max Active
3
Meal buffs at once
Market
/market
Buy & sell ingredients
Ingredient Bag
/ibag
Dedicated storage
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What Is Cooking?

Cooking extends Rust's food system with a full recipe and ingredient system. As you chop trees, mine nodes, skin animals, pick crops, and fish — you'll randomly find custom ingredients like spices, sugar, milk, seaweed, rice, and more. Combine these ingredients at the cooking GUI to craft meals that give you powerful timed buffs.

There are over 50 recipes, each with a unique buff — from mining yield boosts to water breathing, invisibility to turrets, instant barrel smashing, and much more. You can have up to 3 meal buffs active at once.

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Markiii Special: Carrot Cake

We've added a custom recipe exclusive to Markiii-Rust — the legendary Carrot Cake:

🥕 Markiii Exclusive Recipe
🎂Carrot Cake
🌙 Grants Night Vision when eaten!
Eat a Carrot Cake and you'll be granted temporary night vision, letting you see clearly in the dark without torches, flashlights, or NVGs. Incredibly useful for night-time raids, monument runs, and exploring.
Milk Bread Loaf Sugar
⚠️ Carrot Cake has a 1000-second cooldown between uses (~16 minutes), so you can't spam it. Stock up on a few if you're planning a long night session!
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How It Works

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Gather IngredientsCustom ingredients drop from chopping trees, mining, skinning, fishing, harvesting, and picking berries. Each source has its own drop table.
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Learn RecipesFind recipe cards from loot containers. Once learned, the recipe appears in your cooking menu permanently.
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Cook MealsOpen the recipe menu with /cook, select a recipe, and cook it. Each meal takes ~15 seconds to prepare.
Get BuffsEat the meal and the buff activates. You can have up to 3 buffs active simultaneously.
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Ingredient BagType /ibag to open your personal ingredient bag — a dedicated storage for cooking items, separate from your inventory.
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Farmers MarketType /market to buy and sell ingredients. Stock is player-driven — sell what you don't need, buy what you're missing.
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Commands

Chat Commands
/cook
Open the recipe menu. Browse, select, and cook meals from anywhere.
/ibag
Open your personal ingredient bag — dedicated storage for custom cooking ingredients.
/market
Open the Farmers Market to buy and sell ingredients.
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Full Recipe Book

Every recipe on Markiii-Rust with ingredients, buffs, and durations. Search by name, buff, or ingredient:

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Showing all 52 recipes
RecipeBuffDurationIngredients
🥕 Carrot CakeNight VisionCommand8× Milk, 6× Bread Loaf, 5× Sugar
Berry CobblerHeal Share60s2× Wheat, 1× Spices
Ice CreamCold Resist 50%20m2× Milk, 2× Sugar, 1× Egg
Chocolate BrownieMelee Resist 70%5m2× Wheat, 5× Chocolate Bar, 1× Milk, 1× Sugar
Sponge CakeFall Damage Resist 50%10m2× Wheat, 1× Sugar, 1× Milk, 1× Egg
Dark Chocolate MousseWealth 50%5m5× Chocolate Bar, 1× Sugar, 1× Milk, 1× Egg
Mozzarella SticksHarvest +50%10m2× Cheese, 1× Wheat, 1× Spices, 1× Milk
Sausage RollMetabolism Overload 50%60m5× Raw Pork, 2× Wheat, 1× Spices, 5× Bear Meat
Cheese ToastyComfort Aura2m2× Bread Loaf, 3× Cheese
French ToastExplosion Resist60s2× Bread Loaf, 1× Sugar, 1× Spices
BurritoAnimal Resist 50%20m10× Bear Meat, 3× Cheese, 1× Wheat, 1× Tomato
Chilli Cheese FriesElectronics Luck 25%10m3× Cheese, 1× Spices, 1× Raw Pork
SushiFishing Luck 10%10m5× Raw Fish, 1× Rice, 1× Seaweed
Fish Eye SoupWater Breathing10m1× Small Trout, 5× Mushroom, 1× Spices
Mushroom SoupFarming Yield +100%2m1× Spices, 6× Mushroom, 1× Milk
PancakesSpectre (turret invis)60s5× Wheat, 5× Egg, 5× Milk
Pepperoni PizzaBarrel Smasher10m1× Wheat, 2× Tomato, 4× Raw Pork, 2× Cheese
Chicken & MushroomPassive Regen60s1× Wheat, 5× Chicken, 2× Cheese, 5× Mushroom
Scrambled EggsFall Damage Resist 100%5m4× Egg, 1× Milk
Packed LunchNo Durability Loss10m1× Bread Loaf, 2× Egg
Horse FeedHorse Speed Boost10m5× Mushroom
Fried ChickenIngredient Chance +10m1× Wheat, 6× Chicken, 1× Spices, 1× Milk
Fish and ChipsUpgrade Refund 25%2m5× Raw Fish, 1× Spices
Bear BurgerResearch Refund 20%60s1× Bread, 1× Cheese, 1× Spices, 6× Bear Meat
Chicken BurgerWoodcutting Hotspot10m1× Bread, 1× Cheese, 1× Spices, 6× Chicken
Steak DinnerBleed Resist 100%10m5× Bear Meat, 1× Spices
Grilled Pork KebabWoodcutting Yield +10m5× Raw Pork, 1× Wheat, 1× Cheese, 2× Spices
Spaghetti & MeatballsMax Repair60s5× Bear Meat, 3× Tomato, 2× Wheat, 2× Spices
Chicken DinnerLoot Pickup10m6× Chicken, 1× Spices
Roast Chicken PieReviver5m1× Wheat, 10× Chicken, 1× Spices
CannelloniSmelt On Mine5m3× Tomato, 2× Wheat, 1× Spices
CurryFire Resist 100%5m5× Chicken, 2× Rice, 2× Spices, 1× Milk
Chilli Con CarneComponent Luck 20%10m3× Tomato, 6× Bear Meat, 1× Spices
Bear StewMining Hotspot10m6× Bear Meat, 1× Spices
Cottage PieWounded Resist60s5× Wolf Meat, 1× Wheat, 1× Spices
Chernobyl CasseroleRadiation Resist10m5× Wolf Meat, 1× Spices, 2× Anti-Rad Pills
Pumpkin PieInstant HealInstant1× Wheat, 1× Spices, 2× Sugar
Pumpkin SoupFood Share60s1× Spices, 1× Milk
Chicken SandwichSkinning Yield +10m2× Chicken, 1× Tomato, 2× Bread, 1× Cheese
Beef StewExtra CaloriesInstant2× Bear Meat, 1× Tomato, 1× Spices
Gnocchi NeapolitanMax Health +30%10m1× Spices, 3× Tomato, 1× Wheat
Apple CakeNo Durability Loss 50%10m2× Wheat, 2× Sugar, 1× Milk, 5× Apple
Pork OmeletteCrafting Refund5m5× Raw Pork, 3× Egg, 1× Cheese
Baked TroutFishing Yield +10m3× Small Trout, 1× Spices, 2× Wheat
Steak with Red Wine JusLifelink 10%60s3× Small Trout, 1× Tomato, 1× Seaweed, 1× Spices
💡 Some recipes like Cheese (2× Milk) and Fish Ball Ingredients produce intermediate ingredients used in other recipes, not meals with buffs. These aren't listed above.
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Tips & FAQ

Ingredients drop randomly from nearly everything — chopping trees, mining nodes, skinning animals, collecting hemp, picking berries, fishing, even collecting pumpkins and corn. Each source has different drop tables and weights. Just play normally and you'll accumulate ingredients over time.
Find recipe cards in loot containers like crates and barrels. When you find one, it permanently unlocks that recipe in your cooking menu. Some starter recipes may already be unlocked.
Yes — you can have up to 3 meal buffs active at the same time. Choose wisely based on what you're about to do. Going mining? Stack Bear Stew (Mining Hotspot) + Cannelloni (Smelt On Mine) for maximum efficiency.
Your oldest active buff is replaced by the new one. The 3-buff maximum is always maintained.
Type /market to access it. You can buy and sell ingredients there. Stock is player-driven — it starts empty and fills as players sell their unwanted ingredients. Great for getting specific ingredients you need for a recipe.
Most buffs do not persist through death — you'll lose them if you die. Cook strategically and don't waste your best meals before risky situations unless you're confident!
Spectre makes you invisible to auto-turrets, flame turrets, and shotgun traps for the duration. Perfect for raiding NPC bases or running past heavy defences. From Pancakes (60 seconds).
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