Heavy Plate Helmet
Offers superior protection at the cost of reduced vision and movement speed.
Wearing the Heavy Plate Helmet in Rust protects your head. Hits to the head take 90% less bullet and arrow damage and 80% less melee damage. It also gives 7 radiation protection. You craft it at a Level 2 Workbench, and its blueprint costs 100 scrap to research.
About the Heavy Plate Helmet
Against blasts, which hit no single body part, its 100% explosion protection counts as 17%. Its heat protection is negative (-100%), so fire burns you harder while you wear it. Its cold protection is negative (-100%), so it chills you in cold weather.
From full condition it soaks up 1,000 damage before it breaks.
On the tech tree it sits behind 4 other unlocks: Road Sign Jacket, Coffee Can Helmet, Boots and Hazmat Suit. In all, 23 loot sources drop it; the full list of where it drops gives the chance for each.
Heavy Plate Helmet protection and stats
Against animal bites it gives 80% protection, and its full protection table covers every other damage type. None of the 35 protective head pieces beats it for bullet protection and radiation protection. It carries a 10% movement speed penalty, and the penalties of everything you wear add up.
How to craft the Heavy Plate Helmet
Crafting one takes 25 seconds at a Level 2 Workbench and costs 2 × Sheet Metal and 8 × High Quality Metal.
2 
8 
How to get the Heavy Plate Helmet blueprint
Research it for 100 scrap, or unlock it on the Level 2 tech tree for 5 Blueprint Pages in total.
1 Item 
100 Scrap Blueprint 100 
Node 
1 Blueprint Page Unlocked 5 How to repair the Heavy Plate Helmet
A full repair at a Repair Bench costs 2 × High Quality Metal and 81 × Metal Fragments, and you need its blueprint.
×2 
×81 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 Heavy Plate Helmet recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 1 × Sheet Metal and 4 × High Quality Metal for one.
×1 ×4 ×1 ×4 20% 80% 
×1 ×6 50% 
×3 80% 20% Where to find the Heavy Plate Helmet
Treasure Box has the best chance at 1.6%, followed by Locked Crate at 1.3% and Elite Crate at 0.78%.
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 13 November 2026.
