Heavy Plate Pants

Offers superior protection at the cost of reduced movement speed.

heavy.plate.pants

How to get it

  • Crafted
  • Found in loot
  • Worn by NPCs Murderer

Protection

Damage typeReduced by
Bullet75%
Arrow75%
Slash70%
Blunt70%
Stab70%
Explosion100%
Bite70%
Radiation7%
Cold-100%
Fire-100%

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: 40 Metal Fragments, 1 High Quality Metal. A half worn one costs half as much.

Condition lost per repair
20% of maximum
Blueprint needed
Yes

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% back0 to 1 Sheet Metal, 2 High Quality Metal5s
Barrel recycler40% back0 to 1 Sheet Metal, 1 to 2 High Quality Metal8s
Powered recycler75% back0 to 1 Sheet Metal, 3 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.

Tech tree

On the workbench 2 tree, 5 unlocks in, reachable after Road Sign Jacket or Road Sign Kilt.

No scrap price on the tree itself: every node ships with its cost overridden to -1 and the fallback is not recoverable from the files. The research table price above is a different number and that one is derivable.

Stats

Category
Attire
Stack size
1
Durability
1000
Repairable
Yes
Research table
60 scrap
Despawns after
40 min
Item id
-1778159885
Has skins
No

Workbench level 2 · 45s

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