Rust M249: Damage, DPS & Ammo

Stats

Weapon stats

Damage: 65
Rate of fire: 500 rounds a minute
Damage a second: 541.7
Magazine: 100
Reload: 7.5s
Damage multiplier: 1.3x the round

Ammo it can chamber

Round	Damage a shot	Damage a second
	72.8	606.7
	70.01	583.4
	65	541.7
	65	541.7

Damage rules

Body damage at point blank with no attachments, on vanilla settings. Damage a second assumes the trigger held and ignores reloads.

Gameplay details

Stack size: 1
Durability: 500
Repairable: Yes
Despawns after: 1 hour

Technical details

Category: Weapon
Item id: -2,069,578,888
Shortname: lmg.m249
Has skins: No

In-game description

High damage, high rate of fire, belt fed light machine gun.

How to get

Loot 2 sources

Chance of at least one.

How loot chance works

The chance that a freshly spawned container, or a killed NPC, rolls at least one M249. Container chances are before inventory limits: a full crate can discard rolled items, while bonus scrap drops beside it.

Other sources

NPC equipment · belt slot; not a confirmed drop

Recycle & repair

Recycling

Per item at full condition. Green’s 60% boost needs 4 heavy fuses at the Power Plant; red requires maximum power (18 fuses).

50% efficiency · 5s per cycle	60% efficiency · 5s per cycle 4.5s at maximum power	40% efficiency · 8s per cycle	75% efficiency · 4s per cycle
20	24	16	30
0 to 1	0 to 1	0 to 1	0 to 1
3	3 to 4	2 to 3	4 to 5
3	3 to 4	2 to 3	4 to 5

How returns work

Component fractions are random rolls; Scrap fractions carry over between cycles. Worn items return less.

Repair

Repair bench cost when fully worn.

30
11

Condition lost per repair: 20% of maximum
Blueprint needed: No

Repair cost rules

A half worn item costs half as much to repair. Rust stores no repair cost. The bench builds one from the crafting recipe: components are swapped for the first ingredient of their own recipe, then everything is charged at 20% and rounded up.