Rust : Know Your Rust Animals Checklist [MARCH 2025]

This guide will show you the different animals that you will find in the game how much resources that is gathered by skinning them or by fishing trap .

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Introduction : Knowing Your Animals

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There are many animals in Rust. Animals can be hunted, killed and looted by players. They spawn in various rates over different biomes (areas), and can be found most often in wooded areas.

Most animals provide a corresponding food item, as well as a corresponding skull, some Cloth, Leather, Bone Fragments, and Animal Fat. Which can be used for Low Grade , Cloth / Leather Armour.
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The Current list of animals that are currently in-game :

• Bear
  
• Boar
  
• Chicken
  
• Deer
  
• Horse
  
• Wolf
  
• Fish

Find below details of each animal

Bear

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The Bear is an animal that has 400 health

and is very difficult to kill and will attack the player if in their range. Bears are capable of short sprinting bursts which let them run up to 4 times as fast as a player's top speed.

This makes the Bear extremely dangerous, considering how renowned it is for its heavy bite damage plus Bleeding. Inventory items used to be lost when Bears would eat the body of a player after killing them; now a Backpack contains the player's items when killed.

Item & Resources When Harvested :

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Tips

• Bears can be frustrating for new players and fresh spawns, as they are able to outrun the player and move about the map almost silently. There are, however, some simple strategies that new players can utilise to make bears less of a threat:
  
  
• Carry a Building Plan with you and quickly build a foundation that you can jump onto to avoid the bear's attacks. This will give you time to heal bleeding and recover health. The bear will hang around for a while but will be unable to reach you, giving you the opportunity to kill it with a bow or wooden spear.
  
  
• If you don't have a Building Plan with you, you can simply jump onto a nearby boulder that is tall enough to get you out of range of the bear's attacks. The bear will clip through the boulder, but there will usually be a part of its body exposed that you can attack as before. (this has been patched and will no longer work, bears walk on rocks!)
  
  
• Swimming across larger bodies of water will cause bears to lose interest and break chase.
  
  
• Running in circles can make the Bear run out of stamina and run away from the player.
  
  
• If you want to kill a Bear, and only have bows, you should bring friends. However, killing the bear using guns is not much of a challenge.

Known Bugs

• Ability to hit players on low foundations.
  
  
• Will sometimes get stuck and stop moving.

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Boar

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Boars can be found all around Rust. Like other animals, they can be killed and will yield a decent amount of Pork and Cloth.

They can be quite aggressive if approached

However they will usually try to flee from the location where it was attacked even though they can't outrun players. They are one of the easiest preys for food.

Boars will take 5 strikes with the beginning rock weapon or 1-2 shots from a bow.

Item & Resources When Harvested :

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Tips

• Using a range weapon first will give you advantage!

Known Bugs

• All Bugs for animals fixed stated by facepunch studios.

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Chicken

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The Chickens is an animal that has 25 health

Chickens are small animals that can be found around forest areas. Looting them generally gives meat, cloth and bone fragments.

A chicken takes one hit from a hatchet or a pickaxe to be killed, since it only has 25 health points.

From a distance, chickens walk around randomly. When approached, they will attempt to get away from the player, but they are very slow, so they are easy to kill.

Chickens can peck the player for 2 damage per peck.

Item & Resources When Harvested :

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Tips:

• Normally 1 hit with spear does the trick.

Known Bugs:

• All Bugs for animals fixed stated by facepunch studios.

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Horse

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Horses is a passive animal that will not try to attack the player; however if you approach close to it or try to shoot at it, it will attempt to flee the player for its life.

Horses can be spotted in various colours, including grey, dark brown, and light brown. Their manes and tails are usually a few shades darker than the majority of their skin.

Horses be mounted which can be used to sprint much faster than the player in an attempt to escape. After running for about 30 seconds, they tire out and either almost completely stop, or trot just below player sprinting speed. they can also be fed meat and fruit/berries/mushrooms

Item & Resources When Harvested :

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Tips:

• Horses normally stand still so easy to approach to kill or mount

Known Bugs:

• When lagging you and horse might dismount.
  
  
• When lagging going full speed may be awkward.

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Deer

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The Deer is a, hostile NPC animal in Rust. It is very commonly found around the world, especially in or nearby wooded areas.

Deers will charge the player if they get too close. However, they will run away away if damaged. Occasionally, you can see them fighting each other, rearing up on their hind legs and kicking with their front.

Item & Resources When Harvested :

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Tips:

• Deer can be a bit hard to hunt, because if the player comes too close to it or damages it, the deer will attempt to sprint rapidly away from the player, at a speed much faster than the player's sprinting speed. However, the deer will eventually slow down, allowing the player to catch up and kill it.

Known Bugs:

• All Bugs for animals fixed stated by facepunch studios.

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Wolf

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A wolf has 100 health.

The Wolf is an aggressive animal that will attack you when you come near or in its general area. The animal can hit you from long distances, up to around three meters away.

Wolves can be seen attacking deer, chickens, and boars; presumably, this is because of the predatory nature of this animal.

Item & Resources When Harvested :

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Tips:

• Best to use Range weapon at start to get the most advantage
  

Known Bugs:

• Sometimes would run full speed and run around player in a circle and then stops at 1 spot
  

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Fish

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Fish can be found by Fish traps which are a great source of Food, Animal Fat, and Bones during the early and midgame. After placing bait into the trap's inventory, either small fish or trout will be caught, depending on the total calorie value of the bait in the trap. Multiple pieces of bait can be consumed at once if it means catching larger fish. Fish traps lose 10 durability whenever they catch a fish.

Trout
A fish, edible after being gutted and cooked. Obtainable by putting large bait in a fish trap.

Minnows
A small fish caught by fish trap.

Item & Resources When Harvested :

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Tips:

• You can harvest human meat and catch fishes for fat for your first furnaces. Unlike other types of meat, trout provides +15 hydration per bite, so you don't have to worry about stocking water.
  
  
• The fish trap loses 10 health every time it catches something, meaning that you should only put a maximum amount of food equivalent with 9 catches
  
  

Known Bugs:

• None

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Rust Updates

Notes

With Rust being consistently being updated their may be difference to Gun Damage , Explosive Damage , Item building/crafting costs and possibly new added content,so the guide will need to be updated.

Please give time and patience for guide to be updated

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[Lowcko]

nice guide