Bone Helmet
A primitive helmet made from bone. Moderate protection from projectiles and melee damage.
Wearing the Bone Helmet in Rust protects your head. Hits to the head take 25% less bullet and arrow damage and 40% less melee damage. It also gives 4 radiation protection. You can craft it without a workbench, and its blueprint costs 10 scrap to research.
About the Bone Helmet
Against blasts, which hit no single body part, its 40% explosion protection counts as 6.7%. It takes 1 armor insert at most, which adds its own protection and movement penalty to the piece.
From full condition it soaks up 100 damage before it breaks.
Bone Helmet protection and stats
Against animal bites it gives 80% protection, and its full protection table covers every other damage type. Among the 35 protective head pieces, it ranks joint 9th for bullet protection.
How to craft the Bone Helmet
Crafting one takes 15 seconds without a workbench and costs 15 × Cloth and 30 × Bone Fragments.
15 
30 
How to get the Bone Helmet blueprint
Research it for 10 scrap at a Research Table.
1 Item 
10 Scrap Blueprint 10 How to repair the Bone Helmet
A full repair at a Repair Bench costs 4 × Cloth and 7 × Bone Fragments, and you need its blueprint.
×4 ×7 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 Bone Helmet recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 7 × Cloth and 15 × Bone Fragments for one.
×7 ×15 50% ×9 ×18 
×11 ×22 25% 50% 
×6 ×12 
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 13 November 2026.
