Cooking
Advanced recipe system with 50+ meals, custom ingredients, and powerful buffs
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.
8× Milk
6× Bread Loaf
5× 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
Gather IngredientsCustom ingredients drop from chopping trees, mining, skinning, fishing, harvesting, and picking berries. Each source has its own drop table.
Learn RecipesFind recipe cards from loot containers. Once learned, the recipe appears in your cooking menu permanently.
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.
Ingredient BagType /ibag to open your personal ingredient bag — a dedicated storage for cooking items, separate from your inventory.
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:
Showing all 52 recipes
| Recipe | Buff | Duration | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🥕 Carrot Cake | Night Vision | Command | 8× Milk, 6× Bread Loaf, 5× Sugar |
| Berry Cobbler | Heal Share | 60s | 2× Wheat, 1× Spices |
| Ice Cream | Cold Resist 50% | 20m | 2× Milk, 2× Sugar, 1× Egg |
| Chocolate Brownie | Melee Resist 70% | 5m | 2× Wheat, 5× Chocolate Bar, 1× Milk, 1× Sugar |
| Sponge Cake | Fall Damage Resist 50% | 10m | 2× Wheat, 1× Sugar, 1× Milk, 1× Egg |
| Dark Chocolate Mousse | Wealth 50% | 5m | 5× Chocolate Bar, 1× Sugar, 1× Milk, 1× Egg |
| Mozzarella Sticks | Harvest +50% | 10m | 2× Cheese, 1× Wheat, 1× Spices, 1× Milk |
| Sausage Roll | Metabolism Overload 50% | 60m | 5× Raw Pork, 2× Wheat, 1× Spices, 5× Bear Meat |
| Cheese Toasty | Comfort Aura | 2m | 2× Bread Loaf, 3× Cheese |
| French Toast | Explosion Resist | 60s | 2× Bread Loaf, 1× Sugar, 1× Spices |
| Burrito | Animal Resist 50% | 20m | 10× Bear Meat, 3× Cheese, 1× Wheat, 1× Tomato |
| Chilli Cheese Fries | Electronics Luck 25% | 10m | 3× Cheese, 1× Spices, 1× Raw Pork |
| Sushi | Fishing Luck 10% | 10m | 5× Raw Fish, 1× Rice, 1× Seaweed |
| Fish Eye Soup | Water Breathing | 10m | 1× Small Trout, 5× Mushroom, 1× Spices |
| Mushroom Soup | Farming Yield +100% | 2m | 1× Spices, 6× Mushroom, 1× Milk |
| Pancakes | Spectre (turret invis) | 60s | 5× Wheat, 5× Egg, 5× Milk |
| Pepperoni Pizza | Barrel Smasher | 10m | 1× Wheat, 2× Tomato, 4× Raw Pork, 2× Cheese |
| Chicken & Mushroom | Passive Regen | 60s | 1× Wheat, 5× Chicken, 2× Cheese, 5× Mushroom |
| Scrambled Eggs | Fall Damage Resist 100% | 5m | 4× Egg, 1× Milk |
| Packed Lunch | No Durability Loss | 10m | 1× Bread Loaf, 2× Egg |
| Horse Feed | Horse Speed Boost | 10m | 5× Mushroom |
| Fried Chicken | Ingredient Chance + | 10m | 1× Wheat, 6× Chicken, 1× Spices, 1× Milk |
| Fish and Chips | Upgrade Refund 25% | 2m | 5× Raw Fish, 1× Spices |
| Bear Burger | Research Refund 20% | 60s | 1× Bread, 1× Cheese, 1× Spices, 6× Bear Meat |
| Chicken Burger | Woodcutting Hotspot | 10m | 1× Bread, 1× Cheese, 1× Spices, 6× Chicken |
| Steak Dinner | Bleed Resist 100% | 10m | 5× Bear Meat, 1× Spices |
| Grilled Pork Kebab | Woodcutting Yield + | 10m | 5× Raw Pork, 1× Wheat, 1× Cheese, 2× Spices |
| Spaghetti & Meatballs | Max Repair | 60s | 5× Bear Meat, 3× Tomato, 2× Wheat, 2× Spices |
| Chicken Dinner | Loot Pickup | 10m | 6× Chicken, 1× Spices |
| Roast Chicken Pie | Reviver | 5m | 1× Wheat, 10× Chicken, 1× Spices |
| Cannelloni | Smelt On Mine | 5m | 3× Tomato, 2× Wheat, 1× Spices |
| Curry | Fire Resist 100% | 5m | 5× Chicken, 2× Rice, 2× Spices, 1× Milk |
| Chilli Con Carne | Component Luck 20% | 10m | 3× Tomato, 6× Bear Meat, 1× Spices |
| Bear Stew | Mining Hotspot | 10m | 6× Bear Meat, 1× Spices |
| Cottage Pie | Wounded Resist | 60s | 5× Wolf Meat, 1× Wheat, 1× Spices |
| Chernobyl Casserole | Radiation Resist | 10m | 5× Wolf Meat, 1× Spices, 2× Anti-Rad Pills |
| Pumpkin Pie | Instant Heal | Instant | 1× Wheat, 1× Spices, 2× Sugar |
| Pumpkin Soup | Food Share | 60s | 1× Spices, 1× Milk |
| Chicken Sandwich | Skinning Yield + | 10m | 2× Chicken, 1× Tomato, 2× Bread, 1× Cheese |
| Beef Stew | Extra Calories | Instant | 2× Bear Meat, 1× Tomato, 1× Spices |
| Gnocchi Neapolitan | Max Health +30% | 10m | 1× Spices, 3× Tomato, 1× Wheat |
| Apple Cake | No Durability Loss 50% | 10m | 2× Wheat, 2× Sugar, 1× Milk, 5× Apple |
| Pork Omelette | Crafting Refund | 5m | 5× Raw Pork, 3× Egg, 1× Cheese |
| Baked Trout | Fishing Yield + | 10m | 3× Small Trout, 1× Spices, 2× Wheat |
| Steak with Red Wine Jus | Lifelink 10% | 60s | 3× 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).
