Candle Hat
A hat with a candle on top. You can turn the candle on in your inventory.
Wearing the Candle Hat in Rust protects your head. Hits to the head take 10% less bullet, arrow and melee damage. It also gives 1 radiation protection and 40% cold protection. You can craft it without a workbench, and its blueprint costs 10 scrap to research.
Candle 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 29th for bullet protection.
How to craft the Candle Hat
Crafting one takes 15 seconds without a workbench and costs 15 × Cloth and 5 × Low Grade Fuel.
15 
5 
How to get the Candle Hat 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 Candle Hat recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 7 × Cloth and 2 × Low Grade Fuel for one.
×7 ×2 50% 50% ×9 ×3 
×11 ×3 25% 75% 
×6 ×2 Where to find the Candle Hat
Mine Crate has the best chance at 15%, followed by Minecart at 15%.
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 13 November 2026.
