Road Sign Jacket
A shoddy piece of body armor made from roadsigns.
Wearing the Road Sign Jacket in Rust protects your chest, stomach, arms and hands. Hits on the parts it covers take 20% less bullet, arrow and blunt damage and 25% less slash and stab damage. You craft it at a Level 2 Workbench, and its blueprint costs 40 scrap to research.
About the Road Sign Jacket
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 500 damage before it breaks.
On the tech tree it sits behind 3 other unlocks: Coffee Can Helmet, Boots and Hazmat Suit. In all, 26 loot sources drop it; the full list of where it drops gives the chance for each.
Road Sign Jacket 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 5th for bullet protection.
How to craft the Road Sign Jacket
Crafting one takes 25 seconds at a Level 2 Workbench and costs 20 × Leather, 2 × Road Signs and 2 × Sewing Kit.
20 
2 
2 
How to get the Road Sign Jacket blueprint
Research it for 40 scrap, or unlock it on the Level 2 tech tree for 4 Blueprint Pages in total.
1 Item 
40 Scrap Blueprint 40 
Node 
1 Blueprint Page Unlocked 4 How to repair the Road Sign Jacket
A full repair at a Repair Bench costs 5 × Leather, 1 × High Quality Metal and 9 × Cloth, and you need its blueprint.
×5 
×1 
×9 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 Jacket recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 10 × Leather, 1 × Road Signs and 1 × Sewing Kit for one.
×10 ×1 ×1 ×12 ×1 ×1 20% 20% 
×15 ×1 ×1 50% 50% 
×8 80% 80% Where to find the Road Sign Jacket
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 
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 13 November 2026.
