Coffee Can Helmet
A Coffee Can Helmet. It provides a level of regional protection from inflicted damage.
Wearing the Coffee Can Helmet in Rust protects your head. Hits to the head take 35% less bullet and arrow damage and 50% less melee damage. It also gives 5 radiation protection. You craft it at a Level 2 Workbench, and its blueprint costs 40 scrap to research.
About the Coffee Can Helmet
Against blasts, which hit no single body part, its 50% explosion protection counts as 8.3%. It takes 1 armor insert at most, which adds 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 2 other unlocks: Boots and Hazmat Suit. In all, 26 loot sources drop it; the full list of where it drops gives the chance for each.
Coffee Can Helmet protection and stats
Against animal bites it gives 50% protection, and its full protection table covers every other damage type. Among the 35 protective head pieces, it ranks joint 4th for bullet protection.
How to craft the Coffee Can Helmet
Crafting one takes 25 seconds at a Level 2 Workbench and costs 15 × Cloth, 60 × Metal Fragments and 1 × Sewing Kit.
15 
60 
1 
How to get the Coffee Can Helmet blueprint
Research it for 40 scrap, or unlock it on the Level 2 tech tree for 3 Blueprint Pages in total.
1 Item 
40 Scrap Blueprint 40 
Node 
1 Blueprint Page Unlocked 3 How to repair the Coffee Can Helmet
A full repair at a Repair Bench costs 8 × Cloth and 13 × Metal Fragments, and you need its blueprint.
×8 ×13 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 Coffee Can Helmet recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 7 × Cloth and 30 × Metal Fragments for one.
×7 ×30 50% 50% ×9 ×36 60% 
×11 ×45 25% 75% 
×6 ×24 40% Where to find the Coffee Can 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.
