The Coffee Can Helmet is a pretty good choice of helmet throughout the game. It is pretty solid all-around when it comes to damage protection. Visually, it isn’t the most impressive, but it certainly gets the job done. It requires a good amount of crafting items, but they are pretty easy to find, making this an overall easy item to get ahold of. It also has good damage protection.
This helmet is both lootable and craftable. You can find it in Supply Drops, Locked Crates, Oil Rig Locked Crates, Elite Tier Crates, Military Crates, and on Oil Rig Scientists and Heavy Scientists. For crafting, you need to obtain the Coffee Can Helmet Blueprint and Sewing Kit Blueprint. This helmet takes 30 seconds to craft and requires Workbench Level 2. You need 15 pieces of cloth, 60 metal fragments, and a sewing kit to craft this helmet. There are over 50 different skins available for this helmet.
This helmet protects against the same types of damage that the Bone Helmet does. It has a slightly lower protection increase for bite damage, but higher protection increases for the other types. With the Coffee Can Helmet, you get 35% more protection against projectile damage, 50% from melee, 8% from bites, 5% from radiation, and 8% from explosions.