Item Perks

Item Perks brings over 50 unique enhancements to your favorite Rust weapons, tools, and armor. These special abilities can give you an edge in combat, resource gathering, crafting, and more.

What are Enhanced Items?

When an item has a perk, it will be prefixed with "Enhanced" (e.g., "Enhanced Assault Rifle"). These items gain special abilities that can significantly boost your performance. Enhanced items also have a valuable benefit: they will not lose maximum condition when repaired, allowing them to last longer!

Some Enhanced items can even have multiple perks! There's a 25% chance for an item to gain a second perk, and a 10% chance for it to gain a third perk after successfully rolling its first.

How to Get Enhanced Items

There are several ways to get your hands on these powerful items:

Looting

You have a chance to find Enhanced items when looting containers and defeated enemies:

• Crates & Barrels:

  • Elite Crates: 15% chance

  • Underwater Advanced Crates: 12% chance

  • Heli Crates: 10% chance

  • Bradley Crates: 10% chance

  • Code Locked Hackable Crates (Oil Rig, Cargo Ship): 10% chance

  • Underwater Basic Crates: 6% chance

  • Normal Crates: 5% chance

  • Normal Crates (variant): 3% chance

  • Barrels (variant 2): 2% chance

  • Tool Crates: 1.5% chance

  • Barrels (variant 1): 1% chance

• Defeated Scientists:

  • Heavy Scientists: 15% chance

  • All other Scientists (Cargo, CH47, Excavator, Junkpile, Oil Rig, Patrol, Peacekeeper, Roaming): 10% chance

Crafting

When you craft an item, there's a 25% chance for it to become an Enhanced version with a perk! You'll receive a chat notification if you successfully craft an Enhanced item.

Items That Cannot Be Enhanced

Certain items cannot receive perks:

• Geiger Counter, Flare, Smoke Grenade, Timed Explosive, RF Detonator, Camera, Skull, F1 Grenade, Flashbang, Molotov, Satchel Charge, Beancan Grenade, Mannequin, Mannequin Clothing, Survey Charge, Supply Signal, Instant Camera, Candy Cane Club, Snowball, Snowball Gun, Handcuffs, Rock, Spray Can.

Perk List

Here's a list of the perks you can find and what they do:

• Academic: Increases your experience gain by 5-25%.

• Angler: Improves your fishing success or yield by 5-50%.

• Attractive: Draws nearby items towards you by 15-25%.

• BeastBane: Increases your damage against animals by 5-20%.

• BeastWard: Reduces damage you take from animals by 5-20%.

• BlastMine: Automatically mines nearby resource nodes within a 10-unit radius by 5-10%.

• Builder: Reduces building costs or speeds up building by 2-10%.

• Butcher: Increases the resources gained when butchering animals by 5-20%.

• ComponentLuck: Gives you 1-3 extra random components when looting or harvesting by 3-8%.

• Deforest: Automatically cuts down nearby trees within a 5-unit radius by 2-6%.

• Durable: Increases the durability of the item by 5-10%.

• ElectronicsLuck: Gives you 1-2 extra random electronic parts when looting or harvesting by 3-8%.

• Elemental: Reduces damage taken from environmental factors (like heat or cold) by 5-15%.

• Environmentalist: Reduces damage taken from environmental elements by 5-15%.

• Fabricate: Gives you a 4-10% chance to duplicate crafted items (does not work on gunpowder or explosives).

• FallDamage: Reduces the fall damage you take by 5-20%.

• FishingLuck: Gives you a 1-5% chance to find extra components (like fuses, propane tanks, gears, metal parts, weapon bodies, and more) while fishing.

• FlakJacket: Reduces explosive damage you take by 15-25%.

• Forager: Increases the yield from foraging for wild resources by 5-15%.

• HealShare: Shares 3-10% of your healing with nearby teammates within 20 units.

• Horticulture: Improves farming efficiency or plant yield by 2-10%.

• IronStomach: Reduces the negative effects or increases the positive effects of food and water by 50-100%.

• Lead: Improves bullet velocity or accuracy by 5-20%.

• LineStrength: Increases the strength of your fishing line by 5-20% (works with the Handmade Fishing Rod).

• Lumberjack: Increases the amount of wood you gather from trees by 5-20%.

• Manufacture: Speeds up crafting or reduces crafting costs by 5-20%.

• MeleeWard: Reduces damage you take from melee attacks by 5-25%.

• MiningLuck: Gives you a 1-3% chance to find extra components (like fuses, propane tanks, gears, metal parts, weapon bodies, and more) when mining.

• Pharmaceutical: Improves the effectiveness of medical items by 4-10%.

• Paramedic: Increases healing you give to others or receive yourself by 5-15%.

• Prepper: Gives you a 5-15% chance to refund resources when using deployables or consumables.

• Prospector: Increases the amount of ore you gather from nodes by 5-20%.

• Regeneration: Grants health regeneration (after 5 seconds of not taking damage) by 10-20%.

• Reinforced: Increases armor protection or item durability by 5-20%.

• RockCycler: Gives you a 3-7% chance to spawn new resource nodes 2 units in front of you when mining.

• Sated: Reduces hunger/thirst decay or increases food/water effectiveness by 10-50%.

• Scavenger: Gives you a 5-20% chance to find up to 3 extra scrap when looting.

• ScientistBane: Increases your damage against Scientists by 3-15%.

• ScientistWard: Reduces damage you take from Scientists by 5-15%.

• SharkBane: Increases your damage against sharks by 10-25%.

• SharkWard: Reduces damage you take from sharks by 10-25%.

• SkinningLuck: Gives you a 1-5% chance to find extra components (like fuses, propane tanks, gears, metal parts, weapon bodies, and more) when skinning animals.

• Smasher: Increases your melee damage to deployables and structures by 50-100%.

• Smelter: Increases smelting speed or yield by 5-12%.

• Tanner: Automatically skins nearby animal corpses within a 30-unit radius by 2-6%.

• Thrifty: Gives you a 5-10% chance to refund resources when crafting (does not work on gunpowder, explosives, or sulfur).

• Thorns: Reflects 3-5% of damage back to attackers.

• TreePlanter: Gives you a 3-7% chance to plant new trees when harvesting wood.

• UncannyDodge: Gives you a 1-3% chance to completely avoid incoming damage (does not work on certain damage types like hunger, thirst, cold, heat, drowning, slash, or blunt damage).

• Vampiric: Heals you for 0.5-2% of the damage you deal to animals, players, and scientists.

• WoodcuttingLuck: Gives you a 1-3% chance to find extra components (like fuses, propane tanks, gears, metal parts, weapon bodies, and more) when cutting wood.

• BradleyDamage: Increases your damage dealt to the Bradley APC by 3-5%.

• HeliDamage: Increases your damage dealt to the Attack Helicopter by 3-5%.

Enhancement Kits

An Enhancement Kit is a special item that allows you to add specific perks to your gear. It appears as an item called "enhancement kit:" with a unique skin.

• How to Get Them: When you recycle an Enhanced item, there's a 50% chance per perk on that item to receive an Enhancement Kit.