Wood Tea Rust: Recipe, Tiers & Best Wood Farming (2026)

Wood is the resource you never have enough of. Every wall, every furnace load and every upkeep top-up eats it, and chopping trees is the slowest grind of early wipe. Drink a Wood Tea first and the same trees give one and a half, double or three times as much wood, for the same number of swings.

This Wood Tea Rust guide covers what the tea does, the exact bonus and timer for Basic, Advanced and Pure, the Red and Blue Berry recipe, how many berries a Pure tea really costs, what the bonus works on, the best tool to pair it with, and the maths on which tier to drink.

• What It Is
• Tiers
• Recipe
• Berries
• What It Boosts
• Best Setup
• Is It Worth It
• Vs Other Teas
• Tips
• FAQ

What Is Wood Tea in Rust?

Wood Tea is a consumable buff, one of the teas you brew from berries at a Mixing Table. The in-game description says it “temporarily increases your yield from harvesting wood”. You drink it like any food item, a timer appears on screen, and until it runs out every tree you chop gives extra wood.

It belongs to the same family of gathering teas as Ore Tea and Scrap Tea. Ore Tea boosts nodes, Scrap Tea boosts barrels and Wood Tea boosts trees. That makes it the tea for building days, when you need thousands of wood for wood walls, high external walls, upkeep and charcoal.

All the item IDs are also in our full Rust item IDs list, handy if you run a server and want to spawn teas for an event.

Wood Tea Tiers: Basic, Advanced and Pure

Like Ore Tea, and unlike Scrap Tea, every Wood Tea tier lasts the same 30 minutes. Only the bonus changes as you climb:

• Basic Wood Tea: +50% wood from trees. Every tree gives one and a half times the wood.
• Advanced Wood Tea: +100%. Every tree gives double.
• Pure Wood Tea: +200%. Every tree gives three times the wood, the biggest jump of any tier in the tea.

The percentage is added on top of the normal yield, so +100% means twice the wood, not 100 extra pieces. Because the timer never grows, there is no point saving a Pure for a “long” session. Drink the best tier you have whenever you are about to chop.

How to Make Wood Tea

Wood Tea is never crafted from the normal crafting menu. You make it in a Mixing Table or a Cooking Workbench:

1. Place a Mixing Table in your base. It costs 200 Metal Fragments and 100 Stones at a Workbench Level 1, so it is one of the first deployables worth getting each wipe.
2. Add 2 Red Berries and 2 Blue Berries. The order is Red, Blue, Red, Blue. Hit mix and after five seconds you get one Basic Wood Tea.
3. Mix 4 Basic Wood Teas to get one Advanced Wood Tea.
4. Mix 4 Advanced Wood Teas to get one Pure Wood Tea.

Getting Red and Blue Berries

The table is easy. The berries are the real cost. You can pick Red and Blue Berry bushes in the wild, and picking them also gives you seeds. Plant those seeds in Large Planter Boxes at base, keep them watered and lit, and you have a supply that grows back after every harvest. Fertilizer from a Composter speeds things up.

Blue Berries are also half of Ore Tea, so one planter of Blue feeds both of your farming teas. Red Berries go into Healing, Max Health and Anti-Rad Tea too, so they never go to waste. If you already grow hemp for cloth, add a planter of each colour and you will have a Pure Wood Tea every few harvests.

What Does Wood Tea Boost?

Wood Tea boosts the wood you harvest from trees, whichever tool you use. A rock, a hatchet, a Salvaged Axe or a chainsaw all get the same percentage, because the tea changes how much wood each tree gives, not how fast you chop. It does not boost:

• Stone, metal or sulfur from nodes. That is what Ore Tea is for.
• Scrap from barrels. Use Scrap Tea.
• Wood or anything else you find in crates, boxes and barrels.
• Cloth, berries or anything else you gather by hand.

The Best Wood Tea Setup

The tea decides how much wood each tree gives. Your tool decides how many trees you get through in 30 minutes. Put the two together and wood stops being a problem:

1. Bring the best axe you have. A Stone Hatchet works on day one, a Hatchet or Salvaged Axe is much quicker, and a Chainsaw is the fastest of all.
2. Fuel the chainsaw. It runs on Low Grade Fuel, so bring a stack for a full tea timer.
3. Pick a dense forest close to base so you are not walking with the timer running.
4. Hit the X marker. Every tree shows a mark you can hit for bonus damage, which makes it fall faster.
5. Drink Ore Tea too if you plan to hit nodes on the way back. Different gathering teas run side by side.

Is Wood Tea Worth It?

Yes. Even a Basic tea pays for its four berries many times over on a single chopping trip. The question is which tier. Say you would normally chop 10,000 wood in 30 minutes:

That gives two clear answers:

• Short on time, plenty of berries: drink Pure. Three times the wood in the same 30 minutes is the fastest way to fund a big build.
• Short on berries: drink Basic. Four Basic teas drunk one after another give 2 hours of +50%, which is more extra wood than one Advanced tea made from the same four.

These numbers are our own maths from the official bonuses and assume you are chopping for the whole timer.

Wood Tea vs Other Teas

Gathering teas of different types run side by side, so you can have a Wood Tea and an Ore Tea active at once on a mixed farm run. Drinking a second Wood Tea does not stack two wood buffs; it replaces the one you have. The livestock update also lets you add milk or cream to Pure teas, which trades bonus for time or time for bonus; see our milk and cream guide for how that works. Every tea and recipe is listed in our Mixing Table guide.

Wood Tea Tips

• Save it for build days. Upgrading a base, placing walls or building a compound is when a Pure tea saves the most time.
• Feed your furnaces. Wood burns into charcoal for gunpowder, so a tea run before a big smelt pays off twice. A Large Furnace eats wood fast.
• Brew in batches. Teas stack to 10, so one slot can hold a full stack of Pure for a group.
• Use it as water. Each cup gives +30 hydration, so you can skip the water bottle on a run.
• Keep your upkeep in mind. Wood is the cheapest upkeep, so a tea run every few days keeps a wooden base stocked. Our decay guide explains how upkeep works.
• Drink it before wipe ends. Teas and berries wipe with everything else, so check when the next force wipe is and use them up.

Wood Tea FAQ

Sources and Further Reading

• Basic tier bonus, duration and hydration: Facepunch Wiki, Basic Wood Tea
• Advanced tier stats: Facepunch Wiki, Advanced Wood Tea
• Pure tier stats: Facepunch Wiki, Pure Wood Tea
• Pure recipe and berry totals: RustHelp, Pure Wood Tea
• Loot sources and stack size: RustHelp, Basic Wood Tea