Charcoal
Byproduct from campfires and furnaces used for crafting gunpowder.
In Rust, 2 crafting recipes call for Charcoal: the Snowman and Gun Powder. Burning Wood as fuel leaves 1 of it behind 75% of the time.
About the Charcoal
Cooked or smelted, 2 items turn into it: Burnt Pork (1 each) and Cooked Fish (1 each). It stacks to 1,000 in one inventory slot.
At a glance
What you can craft with Charcoal
Per craft, the amounts are Snowman (50) and Gun Powder (30). By workbench, 1 needs none and 1 needs a Level 1.
Needs is how many of this item one craft takes, at the workbench the recipe asks for.
Needs is how many of this item one batch takes; makes is how many the batch produces.
What to recycle for Charcoal
A green recycler gives back the most from the Snowman (25) and Gun Powder (1).
Gun Powder ×1 +20%×1 +50%×1 +80%×2 +25% 
Snowman ×20×25×30×37 +50% What one of each item gives at each recycler: the guaranteed count, and after the + the chance of one more.
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 12 November 2026.
