Hide Boots
Simple hide boots, made with common materials. Basic all-round protection.
Wearing the Hide Boots in Rust protects your legs and feet. Hits on the parts it covers take 5% less bullet, arrow and stab damage and 10% less slash and blunt damage. It also gives 2 radiation protection and 30% cold protection. You can craft it without a workbench, and its blueprint costs 10 scrap to research.
Hide Boots protection and stats
Against animal bites it gives 20% protection, and its full protection table covers every other damage type. Among the 16 protective pieces for the legs, it ranks joint 15th for bullet protection.
How to craft the Hide Boots
Crafting one takes 15 seconds without a workbench and costs 10 × Leather.
10 
How to get the Hide Boots 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 Hide Boots recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 5 × Leather for one.
×5 ×6 
×7 50% 
×4 
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 12 November 2026.
