Rust Prefabs: Full Prefab List With Spawn Names, Paths & IDs (2026)

Rust prefabs are the building blocks of everything in the game world: every vehicle, animal, scientist, loot crate, base deployable and monument piece is a prefab file with its own path, short name and ID. If you run a server, make maps or write plugins, the prefab name is what you type to spawn, find or delete something. This page has the full Rust prefab list of 2,117 spawnable entity prefabs, pulled from the current game files and searchable, with one-click copy for the spawn command, the full path and the prefab ID.

Below the list you will find the prefabs people use most (vehicles, animals, NPCs, events, crates and base items), how to spawn and remove them, what changed with the new animal AI, and how map makers and plugin developers use prefab paths.

• What a Prefab Is
• How to Spawn
• Full Prefab List
• Vehicles
• Animals & NPCs
• Events
• Loot Crates
• Base Items
• Map Makers
• Plugins
• Problems
• Tips
• FAQ

What Is a Prefab in Rust?

“Prefab” is a Unity term for a pre-built object that the game can copy into the world as many times as it needs. Rust is built in Unity, so a Large Wood Box, a Bradley APC and a single pine tree are all prefabs. Every prefab has three names:

The full path always starts with assets/ and is always lowercase. Spaces in folder names are normal (large wood storage), which is why plugins wrap paths in quotes.

Entities vs other prefabs. Only some prefabs are entities: networked objects the server can create, move and destroy while the game runs. Vehicles, animals, NPCs, crates and deployables are entities, and they are what our list covers. Rocks, cliffs, decals, sound effects and most building meshes are not entities. They can only be placed into a map file ahead of time with a map editor. The game manifest holds 6,749 prefabs that the server tracks, and the raw dumps of every prefab file run to more than 17,000 paths, but only about 2,408 of them are spawnable entities. We removed the ones you never want to spawn by hand (corpses, ragdolls, seats, sub-parts and effects), which leaves 2,117.

Prefab names are not the same thing as item shortnames. The deployed box is the prefab box.wooden.large; the item in your inventory is box.wooden.large in the item list too, but a rifle on the ground is ak47u.entity while the item is rifle.ak. To give items, use the Rust item IDs list and inventory.give, not spawn.

How to Spawn a Prefab in Rust

1. Be an admin on the server. Run ownerid STEAM64ID "name"Copy in the server console, then server.writecfgCopy and reconnect. Full steps are in our Rust admin commands guide.
2. Press F1 in game to open the console.
3. Look where you want it. The spawn command places the entity where you are looking. Aim at flat open ground for vehicles and at water for boats.
4. Type spawn plus the short name from the list below and press Enter, for example spawn rhibCopy or spawn bradleyapcCopy. The full form entity.spawn does the same thing.
5. Remove it by looking at it and typing ent killCopy.

The spawn command matches part of a name, so spawn tugboatCopy works without the folder. When several prefabs contain the same word and none is an exact match, nothing spawns and the console lists the possible names instead. Type the full short name from our list to fix it. Facepunch’s own cinematic guide relies on this: spawn point_warmCopy spawns cinelight_point_warm.

Other useful entity commands for admins:

None of this works on official servers or on Rust Console Edition, which has no F1 console. On a community server you need owner or moderator rights. Check our how to host a Rust server guide if you want a test server of your own.

Full Rust Prefab List (2,117 Spawnable Prefabs)

Every spawnable entity prefab in the current game files, sorted into 13 categories. Search by short name, path or ID. Click a short name to copy the ready spawn command, click a path to copy the full prefab path, or click an ID to copy the number. Then press F1 in Rust and paste with Ctrl+V.

2,117 prefabs in 13 categories