Ballistic helmet

Ballistic helmet with superior protection.

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How to get it

  • Found in loot

Protection

Damage typeReduced by
Bullet60%
Arrow70%
Slash80%
Blunt80%
Stab70%
Explosion80%
Bite60%
Cold-15%

A negative figure means this makes you worse off, not better. Heavy metal gear is warmer to carry and colder to stand around in.

Repair

At a repair bench, fully worn: 6 High Quality Metal. A half worn one costs half as much.

Condition lost per repair
20% of maximum
Blueprint needed
No

Rust stores no repair cost. The bench builds one from the crafting recipe: components are swapped for the first ingredient of their own recipe, then everything is charged at 20% and rounded up.

Recycling

RecyclerReturnsTime
Recycler50% back15 High Quality Metal5s
Barrel recycler40% back12 High Quality Metal8s
Powered recycler75% back22 to 23 High Quality Metal4s

A range means the last unit is a coin flip rather than a guarantee: half the recipe rarely divides evenly, and the recycler rolls for the remainder.

Stats

Category
Attire
Stack size
1
Durability
800
Repairable
Yes
Despawns after
1 hour
Item id
1127732084
Has skins
No

The chance that a freshly spawned container, or a killed NPC, gives you at least one Ballistic helmet. Best chance first.

SourceChance of at least oneAmount
Locked CrateContainer16.7%1
Supply DropContainer8.33%1
Elite CrateContainer3.33%1

Values read from the Rust dedicated server files, build 24613624.