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The Ballistic vest repairs from broken at a repair bench for 10 High Quality Metal and 20 Cloth.
These do not land on one part of the body: the game adds up every piece you wear, then keeps a sixth of the total for explosions, bites and heat, and all of it for radiation. Cold is insulation, where 100% is as warm as clothing gets.
Crates, barrels and NPCs that drop the Ballistic vest, most likely first
| From | Chance | Amount |
|---|---|---|
 Locked Crate | 16.7% | 1 |
 Supply Drop | 8.3% | 1 |
 Elite Crate | 3.3% | 1 |
Chance is for one container opened or one NPC killed. Amount is how many it holds when it holds any.
High Quality Metal, 
ClothA repair bench charges 20% of the item’s recipe to fix a broken item, less when it is only worn. A component in the recipe is charged as the first ingredient of its own recipe instead, or not at all when it has no recipe.
What the Ballistic vest gives back in each recycler
| Recycler | Efficiency | You get |
|---|---|---|
| Red recycler | 75% | 37 + 50% High Quality Metal, 3 + 75%  Sewing Kit |
| Green recycler (powered) | 60% | 30 High Quality Metal, 3 Sewing Kit |
| Green recycler | 50% | 25 High Quality Metal, 2 + 50% Sewing Kit |
| Yellow recycler | 40% | 20 High Quality Metal, 2 Sewing Kit |
The Ballistic vest breaks down into High Quality Metal and Sewing Kit.
A recycler takes one at a time.
Figures are for one item in perfect condition. Each recycler’s name opens its full table at this item. “37 + 50%” means 37 every time and a 50% chance of one more.
In Rust, Ballistic vest is a clothing and armor in the Attire category (item ID #-1780402255, console shortname ballistic.vest). In active play, it follows standard server rules for clothing and armor gear across procedural maps. Inventory storage holds a single unit per slot, and uncollected ground drops despawn after 1 hour.
A standard issue military ballstic vest. Worn, used, and dirty, but highly protective.
In Rust, Ballistic vest has no player crafting recipe; acquisition relies on 3 world loot tables read from the Rust game files. Shredding a spare copy at a green recycler recovers base materials at fifty percent yield (vs forty percent at safe-zone yellow units). Damaged copies repair at a Repair Bench for a fraction of recipe cost.
When comparing Ballistic vest against related attire in Rust, prioritize farming its highest-probability monument containers or recycling surplus components at an unpowered radtown green recycler (fifty percent base yield, versus forty percent at safe-zone yellow units) because this item cannot be crafted at a player workbench.
| Item | Category | Stack Limit | Craft / Source | Tech Tree / Research | Green Recycler Yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballistic vest | Attire | 1 per slot | World loot / gather | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
| Hide Vest | Attire | 1 per slot | Crafted by hand | 10 scrap (Table) | Not recyclable |
| Ballistic helmet | Attire | 1 per slot | World loot / gather | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
| Ballistic leg armour | Attire | 1 per slot | World loot / gather | No blueprint | Not recyclable |
Compare Ballistic vest with closely related clothing and armor sheets in the Rust item catalog:
To compare Ballistic vest against every item in its inventory category, browse All 133 items in Attire.
The Ballistic vest drops from 3 container and NPC loot tables in Rust, led by Locked Crate (16.7% chance), Supply Drop (8.3% chance), and Elite Crate (3.3% chance). Each listed probability reflects a single container opened or NPC killed, and found copies can be repaired or researched at base.
The Ballistic vest recycles in Rust at an unpowered green recycler into 25 High Quality Metal and 2 Sewing Kits plus a 50% chance of one more. Undamaged copies return the full listed yield, whereas worn items scale their recycler output down in proportion to remaining durability.
Dropped with nothing attached or inside in Rust, the Ballistic vest despawns after 1 hour by default. Picking it back up into a player inventory or storing it inside a base container immediately resets that ground despawn timer, which the server scales by item rarity tier.
The Ballistic vest belongs to the Attire category (133 published items, 81 with crafting blueprints) and sits in the clothing and armor display family alongside 132 other attire items in Rust. For server administration and conveyor filters, it uses shortname ballistic.vest and item ID -1780402255.
The Ballistic vest has 32-bit signed item ID -1780402255 and shortname ballistic.vest in Rust. Server plugins, custom loot tables, Vending Machine listings, and automated Industrial Conveyor filter strings reference these two identifiers under the Attire category (stack limit 1 unit per slot).
Server administrators in Rust spawn the Ballistic vest in the F1 developer console by typing inventory.give ballistic.vest 1 or inventory.giveid -1780402255 1 for a single unit. Both console spawn commands work only on dedicated or local worlds where your Steam account holds administrator or moderator privileges.