Animal Fat
Harvested from animals, combine with cloth to create a low quality fuel source.
In Rust, 3 crafting recipes call for Animal Fat: the Large Candle Set, Small Candle Set and Low Grade Fuel. Butchering 10 kinds of animals gives it, up to 120 per corpse from the Crocodile.
About the Animal Fat
Other animals give less: Panther (100 each), Tiger (100 each), Bull (40 each) and 6 more. Gutting fish gives it too: Small Shark (20), Catfish (18), Orange Roughy (18) and 6 more. It stacks to 1,000 in one inventory slot.
Comes from
What you can craft with Animal Fat
Per craft, the amounts are Large Candle Set (20), Small Candle Set (10) and Low Grade Fuel (3). None of them needs a workbench.
Needs is how many of this item one craft takes, at the workbench the recipe asks for.
Low Grade Fuel Cooking WorkbenchMixing×3×4
Low Grade Fuel Mixing TableMixing×3×4 Needs is how many of this item one batch takes; makes is how many the batch produces.
What to recycle for Animal Fat
A green recycler gives back the most from the Large Candle Set (10), Heavy Frankenstein Head (7), Heavy Frankenstein Legs (7) and 8 more. It comes back from 1 more item only by chance.
Heavy Frankenstein Head ×6×7 +50%×9×11 +25%
Heavy Frankenstein Legs ×6×7 +50%×9×11 +25%
Heavy Frankenstein Torso ×6×7 +50%×9×11 +25%
Large Candle Set ×8×10×12×15
Light Frankenstein Head ×4×5×6×7 +50%
Light Frankenstein Legs ×4×5×6×7 +50%
Light Frankenstein Torso ×4×5×6×7 +50%
Low Grade Fuel +30%+38%+45%+56%
Medium Frankenstein Head ×4×5×6×7 +50%
Medium Frankenstein Legs ×4×5×6×7 +50%
Medium Frankenstein Torso ×4×5×6×7 +50%
Small Candle Set ×4×5×6×7 +50% What one of each item gives at each recycler: the guaranteed count, and after the + the chance of one more.
Gathered from
CrocodileAnimal×120
PantherAnimal×100
TigerAnimal×100
BullAnimal×40
CowAnimal×40
SharkAnimal×40
SheepAnimal×20
HorseAnimal×10
SnakeAnimal×10
WolfAnimal×10Amounts are for clearing the whole thing. A range means the variants or the offers differ.
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 12 November 2026.
Anchovy
Catfish
Herring
Orange Roughy
Salmon
Sardine
Small Shark
Small Trout
Yellow Perch