Rust Food

For raw calories, Super Serum tops the list at 500 calories. For staying alive in a fight, foods that heal are what matter — Candy Cane Club restores the most health (16 total). Most players carry cooked meat or a stack of berries: cheap, filling and mildly hydrating.

Super Serum (500 cal), followed by Candy Cane Club (300) and Bread Loaf (150). Cooked meats sit high too — cooking raw meat roughly doubles its calories and removes the food poisoning risk.

Berries and fruit give the most hydration per bite — black raspberries, blueberries and apples all restore hydration on top of calories. Water sources (a water bottle, a well or the ocean via a bucket) hydrate far more, but fruit is handy when you're roaming.

Yes. Raw meat can give food poisoning (damage + vomiting) and has low calories; cooking it on a campfire or furnace roughly doubles the calories and makes it safe. Overcook it and it burns into near-useless charcoal-tier food, so pull it off in time.