Boonie Hat
A boonie hat, offering minor protection from damage and cold for your head.
Wearing the Boonie Hat in Rust protects your head. Hits to the head take 15% less bullet, arrow and melee damage. It also gives 2 radiation protection and 40% cold protection. You can craft it without a workbench.
About the Boonie Hat
In all, 13 loot sources drop it; the full list of where it drops gives the chance for each.
Boonie 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 21st for bullet protection.
How to craft the Boonie Hat
Crafting one takes 15 seconds without a workbench and costs 10 × Cloth.
10 
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 Boonie Hat recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 5 × Cloth for one.
×5 ×6 
×7 50% 
×4 Where to find the Boonie 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 13 November 2026.
