Leather Gloves
Gloves made out of leather, offers a small amount of protection to the upper body.
Wearing the Leather Gloves in Rust protects your chest, stomach, arms and hands. Hits on the parts it covers take 5% less bullet, arrow and melee damage. It also gives 4 radiation protection and 30% cold protection. You can craft it without a workbench, and its blueprint costs 10 scrap to research.
About the Leather Gloves
In all, 13 loot sources drop it; the full list of where it drops gives the chance for each.
Leather Gloves protection and stats
Against animal bites it gives 10% protection, and its full protection table covers every other damage type. Among the 24 protective pieces for the chest and arms, it ranks joint 23rd for bullet protection.
How to craft the Leather Gloves
Crafting one takes 15 seconds without a workbench and costs 20 × Leather.
20 
How to get the Leather Gloves 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 Leather Gloves recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 10 × Leather for one.
×10 ×12 
×15 
×8 Where to find the Leather Gloves
Primitive Crate has the best chance at 4.8%, followed by Gingerbread Man at 3.4% and Scarecrow at 3.4%.
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 13 November 2026.
