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Rust Teas: Every Recipe and Effect, from Ore Tea to Pies
Every Rust tea with recipe and effect: ore, scrap, wood, max health and more as basic, advanced and pure, the new milky and creamy teas and all pies.
In short
- Ore Tea from 2 yellow and 2 blue berries gives +20% (Basic), +35% (Advanced) or +50% (Pure) more stone, metal, sulfur and HQM while mining, each for 30 minutes. As Pure, Scrap Tea gives up to +350% scrap from barrels and Wood Tea up to +200% wood. Pick the effect first, then the strength.
- The three standard tiers are Basic, Advanced and Pure. One Pure Tea takes 64 berries: 16 in each of the four recipe slots. Brew 16 Basic Teas, combine them into 4 Advanced Teas, then into 1 Pure Tea. The recipe determines the berry colour in each slot.
- Warming Tea helps in the cold; Cooling Tea helps in the heat. Each changes your temperature and also sets a temperature limit. The tables below separate those effects from their duration.
- Add milk to Pure Tea to make Milky Tea, or cream to make Creamy Tea. Milky lasts longer; Creamy is stronger but wears off sooner.
- Pies have their own uses. Chicken Pie helps when planting for good genes. Bear Pie boosts Harvesting Tea while butchering, but halves the tea’s duration.
Every Rust tea: recipe, effect and duration
Before a farming run, check both the extra yield and how long it lasts. This table lists each tier. Warming and Cooling Tea have their own section below because they also set a temperature limit.
| Tea | Berries (basic) | Basic | Advanced | Pure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ore tea – more stone, metal, sulfur and HQM | 2 yellow, 2 blue | +20% for 30 min | +35% for 30 min | +50% for 30 min |
| Scrap tea – more scrap from breaking barrels | 2 yellow, 2 white | +100% for 30 min | +225% for 45 min | +350% for 60 min |
| Wood tea – more wood | 2 red, 2 blue | +50% for 30 min | +100% for 30 min | +200% for 30 min |
| Max health tea – more maximum health | 3 red, 1 yellow | +5 max HP for 20 min | +12.5 max HP for 20 min | +20 max HP for 20 min |
| Healing Tea – restores health | 4 red | 30 HP over time | 50 HP over time and 5 HP immediately | 75 HP over time and 10 HP immediately |
| Anti-rad tea – radiation resistance | 2 red, 2 green | +15% for 30 min | +30% for 30 min | +45% for 30 min |
| Harvesting tea – more from gutting animals, fish and players | 1 yellow, 3 green | +35% for 20 min | +50% for 20 min | +65% for 20 min |
| Crafting quality tea – better crafting quality | 3 green, 1 white | +50% for 3:20 min | +75% for 5 min | +85% for 6:40 min |
Warming and Cooling Tea: temperature, limits and duration
Warming Tea does two things: it raises your temperature and prevents it from dropping below a set minimum. The Basic recipe uses 2 white and 2 yellow berries.
| Warming Tea | Temperature increase | Minimum temperature | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | 5 °C | −15 °C | 20 minutes |
| Advanced | 10 °C | −8 °C | 45 minutes |
| Pure | 15 °C | 0 °C | 60 minutes |
| Milky | 15 °C | 0 °C | 90 minutes |
| Creamy | 19.5 °C | 0 °C | 48 minutes |
Cooling Tea works in the opposite direction: it lowers your temperature. Every tier also keeps it from rising above 40 °C while active. Basic takes 2 white and 2 blue berries.
| Cooling Tea | Temperature decrease | Maximum temperature | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | 10 °C | 40 °C | 20 minutes |
| Advanced | 15 °C | 40 °C | 45 minutes |
| Pure | 20 °C | 40 °C | 60 minutes |
| Milky | 20 °C | 40 °C | 90 minutes |
| Creamy | 26 °C | 40 °C | 48 minutes |
How to brew tea at the mixing table
Make tea at a Mixing Table or Cooking Bench. You do not need an additional workbench (WB1, WB2 or WB3). The steps below describe using the mixing table.
- Open the mixing table and left-click the recipe you want. The matching berries move from your inventory into the four recipe slots.
- Shift + left-click fills the four berry slots to 20 / 20 / 20 / 20, provided you have enough of the required berries. Otherwise, it inserts the largest quantity you can make with that recipe combination.
- For exactly one Pure Tea, use 16 / 16 / 16 / 16 berries across the four slots: 64 in total. For Ore Tea, that means two slots with 16 yellow berries each and two with 16 blue berries each – 32 yellow and 32 blue.
- Brew 16 Basic Teas. Every four identical Basic Teas make one Advanced Tea, giving you 4 Advanced Teas. Combine those four into 1 Pure Tea.
- To improve Pure Tea further, add 3 milk for Milky Tea or 3 cream for Creamy Tea.
- Use middle-click to take half of the 20 berries out of the first slot. 10 berries remain in that slot.
- Use middle-click to put half of the 10 berries you removed back into the first slot. That adds 5, bringing the slot to 15 berries.
- Use right-click to add one more berry. The first slot now holds 16 berries; the other three still hold 20.
- Start mixing. The other slots are adjusted to 16, and the mixing table brews 16 Basic Teas. Combine those into 4 Advanced Teas, then 1 Pure Tea.
If you brew tea regularly, growing your own berries is useful. The cloning guide explains how to improve your plants’ yield.
Read each row from left to right: each colour represents one of the four slots. Use one berry per slot for one Basic Tea, or the same sequence with 16 berries per slot for 16 Basic Teas.
| Basic Tea | Slot 1 → Slot 2 → Slot 3 → Slot 4 |
|---|---|
| Ore Tea | Yellow → Blue → Yellow → Blue |
| Scrap Tea | Yellow → White → Yellow → White |
| Wood Tea | Red → Blue → Red → Blue |
| Max Health Tea | Red → Red → Red → Yellow |
| Healing Tea | Red → Red → Red → Red |
| Anti-Rad Tea | Red → Red → Green → Green |
| Harvesting Tea | Yellow → Green → Green → Green |
| Crafting Quality Tea | Green → Green → Green → White |
| Warming Tea | White → White → Yellow → Yellow |
| Cooling Tea | White → White → Blue → Blue |
Milky and creamy: pure tea with milk or cream
Milky and Creamy are two ways to upgrade a Pure Tea. Add either 3 milk or 3 cream. To get cream, refrigerate cow’s milk for four hours, then skim it. This also leaves you with skimmed milk.
| Pure tea | Pure | Milky (+3 milk) | Creamy (+3 cream) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ore tea | +50% for 30 min | +50% for 45 min | +65% for 24 min |
| Scrap tea | +350% for 60 min | +350% for 90 min | +450% for 48 min |
| Wood tea | +200% for 30 min | +200% for 45 min | +260% for 24 min |
| Max health tea | +20 max HP for 20 min | +20 max HP for 30 min | +26 max HP for 16 min |
| Healing Tea | 75 HP over time and 10 HP immediately | 100 HP over time and 10 HP immediately | 97 HP over time and 18 HP immediately |
| Anti-rad tea | +45% for 30 min | +45% for 45 min | +60% for 24 min |
| Harvesting tea | +65% for 20 min | +65% for 30 min | +85% for 16 min |
Every pie: recipes and effects
Make pies at the Cooking Workbench. Every regular pie gives 80 calories, 15 water and 2 instant HP, plus its own effect, such as reducing bleed damage or improving the chance of good plant genes.
For most Rich pies, add 4 cream to the regular recipe. Three recipes differ: for Fish Pie and Hunters Pie, replace the mushroom with 6 cream. Rich Shepherds Pie takes 3 wheat, 3 eggs, 2 cooked mutton and 4 cream, with no potato. Rich pies give 100 calories, 19 water and 3 instant HP. Their special effect is stronger or lasts longer, as shown below.
| Pie | Ingredients | Effect | Rich version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken pie | 3 wheat, 3 eggs, 3 corn, 3 cooked chicken | Higher chance of better genes when planting, 10 min | A much greater chance of better genes for 10 minutes. |
| Bear pie | 3 wheat, 2 eggs, 2 mushrooms, 3 cooked bear meat | Boosts Harvesting Tea’s yield bonus by 50%, but halves the tea’s duration. The pie effect lasts 15 minutes. | Boosts the yield bonus by 75% and halves the tea’s duration. Also lasts 15 minutes. |
| Pumpkin pie | 3 wheat, 3 eggs, 1 pumpkin | +10 max HP, 10 min | 15 extra maximum HP for 10 minutes. |
| Pork pie | 3 wheat, 3 eggs, 2 cooked pork | Stronger healing from other sources (+200%), 30 min | Increases healing from other sources by 250% for 30 minutes. |
| Hunters pie | 3 wheat, 3 eggs, 1 mushroom, 2 potatoes, 2 cooked deer meat | −90% bleed damage, 30 min | Prevents bleed damage (−100%) for 30 minutes. |
| Fish pie | 3 wheat, 3 eggs, 1 mushroom, 2 potatoes, 1 cooked fish | More comfort (+100%), 20 min | The same comfort bonus, lasting 25 minutes. |
| Apple pie | 3 wheat, 1 apple, 2 jars of honey | Night vision with tree markings and ore hotspots, 15 min | The same night vision and markers, lasting 20 minutes. |
| Big cat pie | 3 wheat, 3 eggs, 2 cooked big cat meat | Shows nearby animal tracks, 30 min | Shows animal tracks for 40 minutes. |
| Beef pie | 3 wheat, 3 eggs, 3 cooked beef | Can eat more food (+75%), 2 h | Increases food capacity by 100% for 2 hours. |
| Shepherds pie | 3 wheat, 3 eggs, 2 cooked mutton, 1 potato | Livestock gets used to you twice as fast, 15 min | Animals bond with you 150% faster for 15 minutes. |
Common questions
How many berries do I need for a pure tea?
You need 64 berries: 16 in each of the four recipe slots, or 16 / 16 / 16 / 16. Follow the recipe for each slot’s berry colour. Ore Tea takes 32 yellow and 32 blue berries in total. These make 16 Basic Teas, then 4 Advanced Teas, then 1 Pure Tea. With enough berries available, Shift + left-click instead fills each slot to 20 and uses 80 berries.
Which berries do I need for ore tea?
Yellow and blue berries, 2 of each for a basic ore tea. A pure ore tea takes 32 yellow and 32 blue.
What is the difference between milky and creamy tea?
Add 3 milk to Pure Tea for a Milky Tea with a longer timed effect, or 3 cream for a stronger but shorter Creamy Tea. For Ore Tea, Pure gives 50% extra yield for 30 minutes. Milky keeps that bonus for 45 minutes, while Creamy gives 65% extra yield for 24 minutes.
What does the chicken pie do?
Chicken Pie improves the chance of good genes when you plant seeds for 10 minutes. Rich Chicken Pie strengthens that effect, but the game does not give an exact percentage. Eat it shortly before planting to make use of the duration. See the cloning guide for the next steps.
Does ore tea give more HQM?
Yes. In our in-game check, Basic Ore Tea (+20%) gave 3 HQM from one of three nodes and 2 from each of the others. Advanced (+35%) gave 3 HQM twice and 2 once. Both tiers can therefore give 3 HQM, but this small sample does not establish a reliable probability. Dedicated HQM nodes are separate: without tea, fully mining one with a pickaxe or jackhammer normally gives 20 HQM ore and 400 metal ore.
Can I drink several teas at once?
A second tea of the same kind does not extend the effect; it resets the duration to its maximum. Different teas work at the same time.
Does the bear pie also work on scrap or ore tea?
No, only on the harvesting tea: +50% yield when gutting (rich bear pie +75%), but the tea lasts only half as long.