Road Sign Gloves
Gloves made out of metal, offer a good amount of protection to the upper body.
Wearing the Road Sign Gloves in Rust protects your chest, stomach, arms and hands. Hits on the parts it covers take 10% less bullet damage, 20% less arrow damage, 15% less slash and blunt damage and 25% less stab damage. You craft it at a Level 2 Workbench, and its blueprint costs 20 scrap to research.
About the Road Sign Gloves
Its cold protection is negative (-50%), so it chills you in cold weather.
Recycling it returns the Road Signs only by chance, 50% of the time.
On the tech tree it sits behind 2 other unlocks: Hoodie and Hazmat Suit. Only one vendor sells it: the Building Supplies for 40 scrap. In all, 26 loot sources drop it; the full list of where it drops gives the chance for each.
Road Sign Gloves protection and stats
Against animal bites it gives 60% protection, and its full protection table covers every other damage type. Among the 24 protective pieces for the chest and arms, it ranks joint 15th for bullet protection.
How to craft the Road Sign Gloves
Crafting one takes 25 seconds at a Level 2 Workbench and costs 20 × Leather, 1 × Road Signs and 2 × Sewing Kit.
20
1
2 How to get the Road Sign Gloves blueprint
Research it for 20 scrap, or unlock it on the Level 2 tech tree for 3 Blueprint Pages in total.
1 Item
20 Scrap
Blueprint
20
Node
1 Blueprint Page
Unlocked
3 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 Road Sign Gloves recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 10 × Leather and 1 × Sewing Kit for one.
×10
×1
50%
×12
×1
60%
20%
×15
×1
75%
50%
×8
40%
80% Where to find the Road Sign Gloves
Supply Drop has the best chance at 38%, followed by Present Drop at 11% and Treasure Box at 1.6%.
Metal Detector — 0.9% ×1 Shops that hand it out
Building SuppliesShop×1for40 (20–80)
ScrapStats checked against the Rust game files on 13 November 2026.