Bucket Helmet
A Bucket Helmet. It provides a level of regional protection from inflicted damage.
Wearing the Bucket Helmet in Rust protects your head. Hits to the head take 25% less bullet damage, 20% less arrow damage and 50% less melee damage. It also gives 4 radiation protection and 35% cold protection. You craft it at a Level 1 Workbench, and its blueprint costs 40 scrap to research.
About the Bucket Helmet
Against blasts, which hit no single body part, its 50% explosion protection counts as 8.3%. It has room for up to 3 armor inserts, each adding its own protection and movement penalty to the piece.
From full condition it soaks up 200 damage before it breaks.
On the tech tree it sits behind one other unlock, the Water Bucket. In all, 26 loot sources drop it; the full list of where it drops gives the chance for each.
Bucket 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 Bucket Helmet
Crafting one takes 15 seconds at a Level 1 Workbench and costs 20 × Metal Fragments.
20 
How to get the Bucket Helmet blueprint
Research it for 40 scrap, or unlock it on the Level 1 tech tree for 2 Blueprint Fragments in total.
1 Item 
40 Scrap Blueprint 40 
Node 
1 Blueprint Fragment Unlocked 2 How to repair the Bucket Helmet
A full repair at a Repair Bench costs 5 × Metal Fragments, and you need its blueprint.
×5 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 Bucket Helmet recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 10 × Metal Fragments for one.
×10 ×12 
×15 
×8 Where to find the Bucket Helmet
Supply Drop has the best chance at 36%, followed by Present Drop at 11% and Metal Detector at 1.8%.
Metal Detector — 1.8% ×1 
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 13 November 2026.
