Hand-picked resource
Wild Wheat
Pick up Wild Wheat by hand in Rust for 1 Wheat, 1 Wheat Seed. No tool needed.
Where it lives
on a 4,000 m mapEvery 60 seconds the game adds back what is missing from each spawn group, up to 100 per group, at new random spots in its biomes. How respawns work.
Hand-picked yield
no tool needed
A seed lets you farm it. See Farming & Crops.
Methodology
Tested in game on our own server: the number the game aims for in each population on a 4,000 m map. A server can change the settings. Tested on the current version of Rust.
Wild Wheat: common questions
Where does the Wild Wheat spawn in Rust?
On a 4,000 m map, Arid, Temperate, Tundra and Jungle: 10 per km² (160 in all). Every 60 seconds the game adds back what is missing from each spawn group, up to 100 per group, at new random spots in its biomes.
What does a Wild Wheat give?
1 Wheat, 1 Wheat Seed, picked by hand.