Metal Chest Plate
A metal plate covering your torso, provides excellent protection from all forms of attacks.
Wearing the Metal Chest Plate in Rust protects your chest, stomach, arms and hands. Hits on the parts it covers take 25% less bullet and arrow damage and 20% less melee damage. You craft it at a Level 3 Workbench, and its blueprint costs 300 scrap to research.
About the Metal Chest Plate
It has room for up to 3 armor inserts, each adding its own protection and movement penalty to the piece. Its cold protection is negative (-50%), so it chills you in cold weather.
From full condition it soaks up 360 damage before it breaks.
On the tech tree it sits behind 6 other unlocks: MP5A4, Incendiary 5.56 Rifle Ammo, HV 5.56 Rifle Ammo, Weapon Lasersight, SKS and Reinforced Glass Window. In all, 7 loot sources drop it; the full list of where it drops gives the chance for each.
Metal Chest Plate protection and stats
Against animal bites it gives 20% protection, and its full protection table covers every other damage type. Among the 24 protective pieces for the chest and arms, it ranks joint 3rd for bullet protection.
How to craft the Metal Chest Plate
Crafting one takes 35 seconds at a Level 3 Workbench and costs 50 × Leather, 18 × High Quality Metal and 8 × Sewing Kit.
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18 
8 
Level 3 How to get the Metal Chest Plate blueprint
Research it for 300 scrap, or unlock it on the Level 3 tech tree for 7 Blueprint Books in total.
1 Item 
300 Scrap Blueprint 300 
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1 Blueprint Book Unlocked 7 How to repair the Metal Chest Plate
A full repair at a Repair Bench costs 11 × Leather, 4 × High Quality Metal and 33 × Cloth, and you need its blueprint.
×11 ×4 
×33 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 Metal Chest Plate recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 25 × Leather, 9 × High Quality Metal and 4 × Sewing Kit for one.
×25 ×9 ×4 ×30 ×10 ×4 80% 80% 
×37 ×13 ×6 50% 50% 
×20 ×7 ×3 20% 20% Where to find the Metal Chest Plate
Locked Crate has the best chance at 53%, followed by Elite Crate at 1.9% and Helicopter Crate at 0.66%.
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 13 November 2026.
