Livestock breeding
Enter your animals’ genes, and see which pair gives the best young. beta
Your cows
Copy each animal’s two gene rows from its panel in Rust (click a circle to change it, click a number to set the herd), or let Scan Rust read them.
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Best pairs
From Facepunch
- Not quite like plants. Facepunch says livestock genes “won’t behave exactly like plants”, so plant tricks may not work here.
- Good genes sell for more. Lead a grown animal to the Stables and the vendor outside makes a random offer based on its genes. You get three offers; turn down all three and he won’t buy for 15 minutes.
- Wool: up to 400 per trade. The same vendor buys wool, again with three offers. The more you bring in one go, the better the offers, up to 400 wool.
Source: Facepunch’s Livestock Update devblog, 1 October 2026.