Clatter Helmet
Special helmet for players who own Clatter and have played for at least 30 minutes, replaces the bucket helmet.
Wearing the Clatter 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 can craft it without a workbench.
About the Clatter Helmet
Against blasts, which hit no single body part, its 50% explosion protection counts as 8.3%.
Clatter 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 Clatter Helmet
Crafting one takes 15 seconds without a workbench and costs 20 × Metal Fragments.
20 
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 Clatter Helmet recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 10 × Metal Fragments for one.
×10 ×12 
×15 
×8 
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 13 November 2026.
