Jacket
A rugged jacket, will help keep you warm. High cold protection but incompatible with other chest attire.
Wearing the Jacket in Rust protects your chest, stomach, arms and hands. Hits on the parts it covers take 15% less bullet and arrow damage, 25% less slash and blunt damage and 20% less stab damage. It also gives 5 radiation protection and 60% cold protection. You craft it at a Level 1 Workbench, and its blueprint costs 20 scrap to research.
About the Jacket
It has room for up to 3 armor inserts, each adding its own protection and movement penalty to the piece.
On the tech tree it sits behind 5 other unlocks: Pants, Shorts, Shirt, T-Shirt and Tank Top. In all, 23 loot sources drop it; the full list of where it drops gives the chance for each.
Jacket protection and stats
Against animal bites it gives 40% 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. For warmth it ranks joint 2nd among them.
How to craft the Jacket
Crafting one takes 15 seconds at a Level 1 Workbench and costs 50 × Cloth and 2 × Sewing Kit.
50 
2 
How to get the Jacket blueprint
Research it for 20 scrap, or unlock it on the Level 1 tech tree for 6 Blueprint Fragments in total.
1 Item 
20 Scrap Blueprint 20 
Node 
1 Blueprint Fragment Unlocked 6 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 Jacket recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 25 × Cloth and 1 × Sewing Kit for one.
×25 ×1 ×30 ×1 20% 
×37 ×1 50% 50% 
×20 80% Where to find the Jacket
Sunken Chest has the best chance at 1.1%, followed by Scarecrow at 0.49% and Brown Crate at 0.44%.
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 13 November 2026.
