T-Shirt
A tshirt, simple undergarment. Good protection from damage and the elements.
Wearing the 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 3 radiation protection and 35% cold protection. You craft it at a Level 1 Workbench, and its blueprint costs 20 scrap to research.
About the T-Shirt
On the tech tree it sits behind one other unlock, the Tank Top. Only one vendor sells it: the Output Outfitters for 5 scrap. In all, 23 loot sources drop it; the full list of where it drops gives the chance for each.
T-Shirt protection and stats
Against animal bites it gives 30% 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.
How to craft the T-Shirt
Crafting one takes 15 seconds at a Level 1 Workbench and costs 25 × Cloth.
25 
How to get the T-Shirt blueprint
Research it for 20 scrap, or unlock it on the Level 1 tech tree for 2 Blueprint Fragments in total.
1 Item 
20 Scrap Blueprint 20 
Node 
1 Blueprint Fragment Unlocked 2 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 T-Shirt recycles into
A green recycler always gives back 12 × Cloth for one.
×12 50% ×15 
×18 75% 
×10 Where to find the T-Shirt
Sunken Chest has the best chance at 1.1%, followed by Scarecrow at 0.49% and Brown Crate at 0.44%.
Shops that hand it out
Output OutfittersShop×1for5 (2–10)Scrap
Stats checked against the Rust game files on 13 November 2026.
