Characteristics
- Category
- Attire
- Stack size
- 1
- Durability
- 150
- Workbench
- Level 1
- Craftable
- Yes
- Researchable
- Yes · 30 Scrap
- Bullet protection
- 25%
- Explosion protection
- 50%
Overview
A makeshift riot Helmet. Great at deflecting melee attacks.
Nobody near the road has a gun on the first evening. Fights over the barrels are spears, rocks and a salvaged sword if someone got lucky, and a swing to the head ends most of them. That is the fight this helmet is made for: by its own description it is great at deflecting melee attacks.
It costs fifty metal fragments and ten cloth at a Level 1 bench, plus 30 scrap to learn. The bucket helmet costs the same scrap and fewer frags, lasts 200 against this one's 150, and is the usual pick once arrows and pistol rounds do most of the damage. A wooden helmet needs no bench but only gives basic protection and has 100 durability.
Watch out
Melee is the one thing its text promises. Wear it into a gunfight and you are trusting a helmet built for swords to stop bullets.
So wear it while melee still decides fights. When the Level 2 benches go up, a coffee can helmet takes its place, and the riot helmet goes to the recycler, which returns half the frags.
Protection
-
Bullet
25% -
Arrow
25% -
Stab
80% -
Slash
80% -
Blunt
80% -
Explosion
50% -
Cold exposure
35% -
Radiation exposure
5% -
Bite
80%
- Head
Crafting
- Workbench level
- Level 1
- Crafting time
- 15 s
- Research cost
- 30 Scrap
Recycling
At power grid stage 2 a green recycler works at 60% instead of 50%. Yields depend on the recycler.
How to get
-
Craft
at a Level 1 Workbench
-
Research
30 Scrap at a Research Table
