Reinforced Wooden Shield
A basic wooden shield with added protection, keeps you safe but not for long. Usable with single handed weapons and tools.
The Reinforced Wooden Shield is an item in Rust that you wear. You craft it at a Level 1 Workbench, and its blueprint costs 100 scrap to research.
About the Reinforced Wooden Shield
Recycling it returns the Road Signs only by chance, 50% of the time.
On the tech tree it sits behind 4 other unlocks: Salvaged Sword, Pickaxe, Engineering Workbench and Salvaged Hammer. In all, 23 loot sources drop it; the full list of where it drops gives the chance for each.
Statistics
How to craft the Reinforced Wooden Shield
Crafting one takes 15 seconds at a Level 1 Workbench and costs 1 × Road Signs, 10 × Cloth and 200 × Wood.
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10 
200 
How to get the Reinforced Wooden Shield blueprint
Research it for 100 scrap, or unlock it on the Level 1 tech tree for 5 Blueprint Fragments in total.
1 Item 
100 Scrap Blueprint 100 
Node 
1 Blueprint Fragment Unlocked 5 How to repair the Reinforced Wooden Shield
A full repair at a Repair Bench costs 3 × Cloth, 41 × Wood and 1 × High Quality Metal, and you need its blueprint.
×3 ×41 
×1 What the Reinforced Wooden Shield recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 5 × Cloth and 100 × Wood for one.
×5 ×100 50% ×6 ×120 60% 
×7 ×150 75% 50% 
×4 ×80 40% Where to find the Reinforced Wooden Shield
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.
