Longsleeve T-Shirt
Long sleeve tshirt, versatile clothing for protection against damage and the elements.
Wearing the Longsleeve T-Shirt 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 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 Longsleeve T-Shirt
On the tech tree it sits behind 3 other unlocks: Improvised Balaclava, Beenie Hat and Tank Top. Only one vendor sells it: the Output Outfitters for 10 scrap. In all, 25 loot sources drop it; the full list of where it drops gives the chance for each.
Longsleeve T-Shirt protection and stats
Against animal bites it gives 35% 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 Longsleeve T-Shirt
Crafting one takes 15 seconds at a Level 1 Workbench and costs 30 × Cloth.
30 How to get the Longsleeve T-Shirt blueprint
Research it for 20 scrap, or unlock it on the Level 1 tech tree for 4 Blueprint Fragments in total.
1 Item
20 Scrap
Blueprint
20
Node
1 Blueprint Fragment
Unlocked
4 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 Longsleeve T-Shirt recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 15 × Cloth for one.
×15
×18
×22
50%
×12 Where to find the Longsleeve T-Shirt
Tool Box has the best chance at 6.5%, followed by Sunken Crate at 4.4% and Sunken Chest at 1.1%.
Shops that hand it out
Output OutfittersShop×1for10 (5–20)
ScrapStats checked against the Rust game files on 13 November 2026.