Spoiled Horse Meat

RUST Spoiled Horse Meat is an edible item found in RUST, located in and spawnable from the F1 console under Food. Facepunchg added the spoilage concept to RUST with the March 2025 update as the direct result of not refrigerating food in a powered Fridge, both raw and cooked meat.

Spoilage will take place after the following periods of time;

• You have a 24-hour window for cooked meat to insert the cooked product into the powered Fridge.  
• You have a 6-hour window to insert raw meat into a powered Fridge.

While placed within the Fridge, the spoilage timer (visible in the same window as the item description) will pause. There isn’t currently a way to reset the timer, and it will continue its downward tick towards spoilage as soon as it is removed from cooling. Once the timer reaches zero, all meat types convert from their cooked/raw status to that of Spoiled.

When consumed, the Spoiled Horse Meat restores 20 calories but induces vomiting and hurts the player considerably, adding +10 poison as an invisible status ailment. It is also unique amongst spoiled meat types, having a bait value of 5 and a maximum bait stack size of 1.

For more information on how to get food in RUST, check out our Food Guide!