Rusted

is an effect that only works on items that are made of metal. items will have their commerce value divided by 100 and cannot be equipped. They can be repaired using Repair or a, or by paying a creature with the repair skill to repair the item. In any of these cases, repairing a item will fully remove the  effect from it with no permanent effects remaining.

All metal items are equally susceptible to rusting regardless of their tier or any other measures of their power.

An item with the lacquered mod cannot rust.

Causes of Rust

 * the melee attack of
 * the melee attack of qudzu symbiotes
 * the melee attack of
 * strikes of from  that has absorbed
 * becoming prone in pool of, which is typically due to or
 * extradimensional items may rust when exposed to normality effects
 * robotic creatures can be rusted if they spawn inside a rusty biome. This does not affect a creature's stats, but may prevent certain abilities from functioning