Beenie Hat
A wooly hat, offering some basic protection from damage and cold for your head.
Wearing the Beenie Hat in Rust protects your head. Hits to the head take 10% less bullet, arrow and melee damage. It also gives 1 radiation protection and 40% cold protection. You can craft it without a workbench, and its blueprint costs 20 scrap to research.
About the Beenie Hat
On the tech tree it sits behind one other unlock, the Tank Top. In all, 13 loot sources drop it; the full list of where it drops gives the chance for each.
Beenie Hat protection and stats
Against animal bites it gives 20% protection, and its full protection table covers every other damage type. Among the 35 protective head pieces, it ranks joint 29th for bullet protection.
How to craft the Beenie Hat
Crafting one takes 15 seconds without a workbench and costs 15 × Cloth.
15 
How to get the Beenie Hat blueprint
Research it for 20 scrap, or unlock it on the Level 1 tech tree for 2 Blueprint Fragments in total.
1 Item 
20 Scrap Blueprint 20 
Node 
1 Blueprint Fragment Unlocked 2 Reduction is how much of that damage type never lands. Damage taken is the rest: at 50% reduction a hit for 100 does 50. A negative reduction means the hit lands harder than it would bare.
What the Beenie Hat recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 7 × Cloth for one.
×7 50% ×9 
×11 25% 
×6 Where to find the Beenie Hat
Primitive Crate has the best chance at 4.8%, followed by Gingerbread Man at 3.4% and Scarecrow at 3.4%.
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 10 November 2026.
