Clothing
Heavy Plate Helmet
heavy.plate.helmet
Crafting one takes 2× Sheet Metal, 8× High Quality Metal at a Workbench Lvl 2.
Crafting
Workbench Lvl 2Craft time: 45s
Change History
Datamined from the game files on each Rust build — including changes the patch notes never mention. See every change on the Rust changes explorer.
| 2026-09-09 | ingredients[sheetmetal].amount | 1 | 2 |
| 2026-09-09 | ingredients[metal.refined].amount | 4 | 8 |
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