Horse Costume
An inflatable horse costume. Acting as a replacement for wooden pants, you can equip this item to look as silly as possible.
Wearing the Horse Costume in Rust protects your legs and feet. Hits on the parts it covers take 10% less bullet and arrow damage and 40% less melee damage. It also gives 5 radiation protection. You can craft it without a workbench.
About the Horse Costume
Against blasts, which hit no single body part, its 30% explosion protection counts as 5%. Its heat protection is negative (-100%), so fire burns you harder while you wear it.
From full condition it soaks up 80 damage before it breaks.
Horse Costume protection and stats
Against animal bites it gives 30% 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. It stops you from mounting seats and vehicles, and it cannot be put on while you are mounted.
How to craft the Horse Costume
Crafting one takes 15 seconds without a workbench and costs 25 × Cloth and 200 × Wood.
25 
200 
How to repair the Horse Costume
A full repair at a Repair Bench costs 6 × Cloth and 41 × Wood, and no blueprint is needed.
×6 ×41 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 Horse Costume recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 12 × Cloth and 100 × Wood for one.
×12 ×100 50% ×15 ×120 
×18 ×150 75% 
×10 ×80 
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 14 November 2026.
