Boots
Sturdy work boots to keep your toes safe, you'd feel nothing if you kicked a table leg. Strong protection against the cold and incoming damage.
Wearing the Boots in Rust protects your legs and feet. Hits on the parts it covers take 10% less bullet, arrow and stab damage and 15% less slash and blunt damage. It also gives 3 radiation protection and 50% cold protection. You craft it at a Level 2 Workbench, and its blueprint costs 40 scrap to research.
About the Boots
On the tech tree it sits behind one other unlock, the Hazmat Suit. Only one vendor sells it: the Output Outfitters for 20 scrap. In all, 24 loot sources drop it; the full list of where it drops gives the chance for each.
Boots protection and stats
Against animal bites it gives 15% protection, and its full protection table covers every other damage type. Among the 16 protective pieces for the legs, it ranks joint 6th for bullet protection. None of them beats it for warmth.
How to craft the Boots
Crafting one takes 25 seconds at a Level 2 Workbench and costs 20 × Leather, 15 × Metal Fragments and 1 × Sewing Kit.
20 
15 
1 
How to get the Boots blueprint
Research it for 40 scrap, or unlock it on the Level 2 tech tree for 2 Blueprint Pages in total.
1 Item 
40 Scrap Blueprint 40 
Node 
1 Blueprint Page 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 Boots recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 10 × Leather and 7 × Metal Fragments for one.
×10 ×7 50% 50% ×12 ×9 60% 
×15 ×11 25% 75% 
×8 ×6 40% Where to find the Boots
Treasure Box has the best chance at 1.6%, followed by Locked Crate at 1.3% and Elite Crate at 0.78%.
Shops that hand it out
Output OutfittersShop×1for20 (10–40)Scrap
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 10 November 2026.
