Hide Pants
Trousers made from the hide of an animal. Moderate protection against animal attacks.
Wearing the Hide Pants in Rust protects your legs and feet. Hits on the parts it covers take 10% less bullet, arrow and stab damage and 15% less slash and blunt damage. It also gives 2 radiation protection and 25% cold protection. You can craft it without a workbench, and its blueprint costs 10 scrap to research.
Hide Pants protection and stats
Against animal bites it gives 45% protection, and its full protection table covers every other damage type. Among the 16 protective pieces for the legs, it ranks joint 6th for bullet protection.
How to craft the Hide Pants
Crafting one takes 15 seconds without a workbench and costs 10 × Leather.
10 
How to get the Hide Pants 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 Pants 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 13 November 2026.
