Burlap Shirt
A Shirt made out of burlap.
Wearing the Burlap Shirt in Rust protects your chest, stomach, arms and hands. Hits on the parts it covers take 10% less bullet, arrow and melee damage. It also gives 2 radiation protection and 40% cold protection. You can craft it without a workbench, and its blueprint costs 10 scrap to research.
Burlap Shirt protection and stats
Against animal bites it gives 20% protection, and its full protection table covers every other damage type. Among the 24 protective pieces for the chest and arms, it ranks joint 15th for bullet protection.
How to craft the Burlap Shirt
Crafting one takes 15 seconds without a workbench and costs 20 × Cloth.
20 
How to get the Burlap Shirt blueprint
Research it for 10 scrap at a Research Table.
1 Item 
10 Scrap Blueprint 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 Burlap Shirt recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 10 × Cloth for one.
×10 ×12 
×15 
×8 
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 13 November 2026.
