Gas Mask
A Gas Mask
Wearing the Gas Mask 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. It cannot be crafted.
About the Gas Mask
Against blasts, which hit no single body part, its 50% explosion protection counts as 8.3%.
From full condition it soaks up 200 damage before it breaks.
Gas Mask 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 repair the Gas Mask
A full repair at a Repair Bench costs 5 × Metal Fragments, and no blueprint is needed.
×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 Gas Mask 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.
