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The Hot Air Balloon Armor costs 30 scrap to research.
What one batch takes.
Metal Fragments
Metal Fragments
Copy it, then hold Shift and click Paste (JSON) in the conveyor, in game.
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"TargetCategory": null,
"MaxAmountInOutput": 200,
"BufferAmount": 0,
"MinAmountInInput": 0,
"IsBlueprint": false,
"TargetItemName": "metal.fragments"
}
]
Workbench Level 1, 15s, yields 1
Faster at a higher workbench: 7.5s at Workbench Level 2, 3.75s at Workbench Level 3.
Researching the blueprint costs 30 scrap at a Research Table.
Crates, barrels and NPCs that drop the Hot Air Balloon Armor, most likely first
| From | Chance | Amount |
|---|---|---|
 Sunken Chest | 1.1% | 1 |
 Normal Crate | 0.44% | 1 |
 Wagon Normal Crate | 0.44% | 1 |
Scientist | 0.16% | 1 |
Tunnel Dweller and Underwater Dweller | 0.16% | 1 |
Chance is for one container opened or one NPC killed. Amount is how many it holds when it holds any.
A repair bench charges 20% of the recipe to fix a broken item, less when it is only worn.
What the Hot Air Balloon Armor gives back in each recycler
| Recycler | Efficiency | You get |
|---|---|---|
| Red recycler | 75% | 150 Metal Fragments |
| Green recycler (powered) | 60% | 120 Metal Fragments |
| Green recycler | 50% | 100 Metal Fragments |
| Yellow recycler | 40% | 80 Metal Fragments |
The Hot Air Balloon Armor breaks down into Metal Fragments.
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.
In Rust, Hot Air Balloon Armor is a car and horse part in the Attire category (item ID #-1989600732, console shortname hab.armor). In active play, it follows standard server rules for car and horse part gear across procedural maps. Inventory storage holds a single unit per slot, and uncollected ground drops despawn after 20 minutes.
Armor for the Hot Air Balloon.
Crafting Hot Air Balloon Armor in Rust takes 15 seconds at a Workbench Level 1 once the 30 scrap blueprint node is unlocked, with all ballistics, crafting, and durability values 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.
The Hot Air Balloon Armor is one of the 36 car and horse parts; Rust classifies it under the Attire inventory category.
When choosing between Hot Air Balloon Armor and related attire in Rust, prioritize researching a looted or traded copy at a Research Table (30 scrap) whenever you want to skip the 60-scrap tech tree path and save 30 scrap, or unlock the tech tree branch when your group also needs the prerequisite blueprints.
| Item | Category | Stack Limit | Craft / Source | Tech Tree / Research | Green Recycler Yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hot Air Balloon Armor | Attire | 1 per slot | Workbench Level 1 | 30 node / 60 path | Not recyclable |
| Roadsign Horse Armor | Attire | 1 per slot | Workbench Level 2 | 60 node / 165 path | Not recyclable |
| Wooden Horse Armor | Attire | 1 per slot | Workbench Level 1 | 10 scrap (Table) | Not recyclable |
| Armored Cockpit Vehicle Module | Components | 1 per slot | Workbench Level 3 | 60 node / 360 path | Not recyclable |
Compare Hot Air Balloon Armor with closely related car and horse part sheets in the Rust item catalog:
To compare Hot Air Balloon Armor against every item in its inventory category, browse All 133 items in Attire, or plan prerequisite scrap paths on the The Workbench Level 1 tech tree, tile by tile.
The Hot Air Balloon Armor is crafted at a Workbench Level 1 from 200 Metal Fragments, once the blueprint is learned in Rust. Players smelt raw ores in a furnace and gather required components from monument crates before queuing the craft at their workbench.
The Hot Air Balloon Armor drops from 5 container and NPC loot tables in Rust, led by Sunken Chest (1.1% chance), Normal Crate (0.44% chance), and Wagon Normal Crate (0.44% chance). Each listed probability reflects a single container opened or NPC killed, and found copies can be repaired or researched at base.
The Hot Air Balloon Armor recycles in Rust at an unpowered green recycler into 100 Metal Fragments. Monument green recyclers shred items one unit at a time on fast radtown cycles, whereas safe-zone yellow units trade lower material recovery for peacekeeper protection.
The Hot Air Balloon Armor takes 15 seconds to craft, down to 3.75 seconds at Workbench Level 3 in Rust. It belongs to the Attire category under numeric ID -1989600732 across 133 attire and despawns after 20 minutes when dropped on a default server.
A repair bench fixes the Hot Air Balloon Armor from broken for 40 Metal Fragments in Rust. Repairing at a Repair Bench requires no learned blueprint or rare component body, scaling material cost to missing durability while permanently capping maximum condition by 20% across a full repair.
Blueprint progression for Hot Air Balloon Armor at Workbench Level 1 in Rust charges 30 scrap on the target node and 60 cumulative scrap along the prerequisite branch, while direct blueprint study at a Research Table charges 30 scrap.
Dropped on the ground in Rust, the Hot Air Balloon Armor despawns after 20 minutes 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 Hot Air Balloon Armor has 32-bit signed item ID -1989600732 and shortname hab.armor 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 Hot Air Balloon Armor in the F1 developer console by typing inventory.give hab.armor 1 or inventory.giveid -1989600732 1 for a single unit. Both console spawn commands require administrator or moderator privileges on the server, while regular players can bind a quick-craft shortcut key instead.