Hide Vest
Simple hide vest, made with common materials. Basic all-round protection.
Wearing the Hide Vest in Rust protects your chest, stomach, arms and hands. Hits on the parts it covers take 15% less bullet and melee damage and 10% less arrow damage. It also gives 3 radiation protection and 30% cold protection. You can craft it without a workbench, and its blueprint costs 10 scrap to research.
Hide Vest protection and stats
Against animal bites it gives 50% protection, and its full protection table covers every other damage type. Among the 24 protective pieces for the chest and arms, it ranks joint 10th for bullet protection.
How to craft the Hide Vest
Crafting one takes 15 seconds without a workbench and costs 10 × Leather.
10 
How to get the Hide Vest 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 Vest 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.
