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The HMLMG fires 5.56 Rifle Ammo and three other ammo types from a 60-round magazine and takes three attachments at once.
Damage is one body hit with 
5.56 Rifle Ammo, up close.
What one batch takes.
High Quality Metal
Rifle Body
Metal Spring
Gears
The same recipe expanded until every line is something you gather, smelt or loot.
Scrap
Metal Fragments
High Quality Metal
Rifle Body
High Quality Metal
Rifle Body
Metal Spring
Gears
Copy it, then hold Shift and click Paste (JSON) in the conveyor, in game.
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"IsBlueprint": false,
"TargetItemName": "metal.refined"
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"MaxAmountInOutput": 1,
"BufferAmount": 0,
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"IsBlueprint": false,
"TargetItemName": "riflebody"
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"TargetCategory": null,
"MaxAmountInOutput": 3,
"BufferAmount": 0,
"MinAmountInInput": 0,
"IsBlueprint": false,
"TargetItemName": "metalspring"
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Workbench Level 3, 30s, yields 1
Researching the blueprint costs 120 scrap at a Research Table.
| Ammo | Damage | Headshot | Velocity | Damage per second |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
5.56 Rifle Ammo | 57.5 | ×2 | 525 m/s | 249 |
Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo | 57.5, +5 within 1.5 m | ×2 | 315 m/s | 270 |
HV 5.56 Rifle Ammo | 57.5 | ×2 | 630 m/s | 249 |
Incendiary 5.56 Rifle Ammo | 64.4 | ×2 | 315 m/s | 278 |
Damage is one body hit up close, with no armour. A headshot multiplies it against players only. Damage per second empties one magazine and counts the reload. Velocity and spread are applied locally by your game client, while the server bounds their limits.
Muzzle
Military Silencer: -25% Damage
Muzzle Boost: -10% Time between shots, +0.15° Spread aiming down sights, +0.5° Spread from the hip
Muzzle Brake: -15% Damage, +0.5° Spread aiming down sights, +2° Spread from the hip
Oil Filter Silencer: -30% Damage
Soda Can Silencer: -30% DamageSight
8x Zoom Scope
Holosight: -20% Spread aiming down sights
Simple Handmade Sight
Variable Zoom ScopeUnderbarrel
Weapon flashlight
Weapon Lasersight: -20% Spread aiming down sights, -50% Spread from the hip, while switched onCrates, barrels and NPCs that drop the HMLMG, most likely first
| From | Chance | Amount | Condition |
|---|---|---|---|
 Locked Crate | 5.6% | 1 | 100% |
| Scientist PT Boat Dry Box | 2.8% | 1 to 3 | 100% |
 Elite Crate | 1.9% | 1 to 2 | 10 to 20% |
 Helicopter Crate, 4 crates per Patrol Helicopter | 0.66% | 1 | 100% |
Heavy Scientist | 0.24% | 1 | 100% |
Chance is for one container opened or one NPC killed. Amount is how many it holds when it holds any. Condition is the state the item comes out in.
A repair bench charges 20% of the recipe to fix a broken item, less when it is only worn. A component in the recipe is charged as the first ingredient of its own recipe instead, or not at all when it has no recipe.
What the HMLMG gives back in each recycler
| Recycler | Efficiency | You get |
|---|---|---|
| Red recycler | 75% | 1 + 50% Gears, 22 + 50% High Quality Metal, 2 + 25% Metal Spring, 75% Rifle Body |
| Green recycler (powered) | 60% | 1 + 20% Gears, 18 High Quality Metal, 1 + 80% Metal Spring, 60% Rifle Body |
| Green recycler | 50% | 1 Gears, 15 High Quality Metal, 1 + 50% Metal Spring, 50% Rifle Body |
| Yellow recycler | 40% | 80% Gears, 12 High Quality Metal, 1 + 20% Metal Spring, 40% Rifle Body |
The HMLMG breaks down into Gears, High Quality Metal, Metal Spring and Rifle Body.
A recycler takes one at a time.
Figures are for one item in perfect condition. Each recycler’s name opens its full table at this item. “1 + 50%” means 1 every time and a 50% chance of one more, and a percentage alone is the chance of getting one.
13 skins on the Steam Market change how the HMLMG looks, from $0.87 to $4.39.
Also listed: 4 Twitch and Kick drops, marked “Drop”. They never reach the market, so they have no price.
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In Rust, HMLMG is a ranged weapon in the Weapons category (item ID #-1214542497, console shortname hmlmg). Loaded with standard 5.56 Rifle Ammo, it delivers 57.5 base impact damage from a 60-round magazine in active combat. Inventory storage holds a single unit per slot, and uncollected ground drops despawn after 1 hour.
A hand made belt-fed light machine gun with high damage, high rate of fire, low accuracy during short bursts.
Crafting HMLMG in Rust takes 30 seconds at a Workbench Level 3 once the 120 scrap blueprint node is unlocked, with all ballistics, crafting, and durability values read from the Rust game files. Shredding a spare copy at a green recycler recovers base materials at fifty percent yield (vs forty percent at safe-zone yellow units). Damaged copies repair at a Repair Bench for a fraction of recipe cost.
Only two of the 43 ranged weapons hold more rounds than the HMLMG.
When choosing between HMLMG and related weapons in Rust, prioritize researching a looted or traded copy at a Research Table (120 scrap) whenever you want to skip the 660-scrap tech tree path and save 540 scrap, or unlock the tech tree branch when your group also needs the prerequisite blueprints.
| Weapon | Damage | Fire Rate | Sustained DPS | Workbench / Source | Blueprint (Node / Path) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HMLMG | 57.5 dmg | 480 RPM | 248.6 DPS | Workbench Level 3 | 120 node / 660 path |
| LR-300 Assault Rifle | 40 dmg | 500 RPM | 160.4 DPS | Military crate / Vendor | Uncraftable |
| Semi-Automatic Rifle | 40 dmg | 343 RPM | 91.1 DPS | Workbench Level 2 | 60 node / 930 path |
| MP5A4 | 37.5 dmg | 600 RPM | 163 DPS | Workbench Level 3 | 120 node / 420 path |
Compare HMLMG with closely related ranged weapon sheets in the Rust item catalog:
To compare HMLMG against every item in its inventory category, browse All 85 items in Weapons, or plan prerequisite scrap paths on the The Workbench Level 3 tech tree, tile by tile.
Loaded with standard ammunition, the HMLMG deals 57.5 base damage per hit at 480 RPM (248.6 sustained DPS) in Rust, dropping to 80% damage past 100 m. Against a fifty-percent projectile-protection Metal Chest Plate, close torso hits deal twenty-nine net damage and down a full-health player in four shots.
The HMLMG fires 5.56 Rifle Ammo, Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo, HV 5.56 Rifle Ammo and Incendiary 5.56 Rifle Ammo, 60 rounds to a magazine in Rust. Players switch between compatible ammunition types by holding the reload key (R) and picking the desired round from their inventory.
Up to 3 weapon mods equip simultaneously on the HMLMG in Rust across 11 compatible attachments: muzzle (Military Silencer, Muzzle Boost, Muzzle Brake, Oil Filter Silencer, Soda Can Silencer); sight (8x Zoom Scope, Holosight, Simple Handmade Sight, Variable Zoom Scope); underbarrel (Weapon flashlight, Weapon Lasersight).
The HMLMG is crafted at a Workbench Level Three from 30 High Quality Metal, 1 Rifle Body, 3 Metal Spring and 2 Gears in 30 seconds, once the blueprint is learned in Rust. Non-craftable components like Rifle Body must be looted from monument crates or recycled gear before queuing the craft at your bench.
The HMLMG drops from 5 container and NPC loot tables in Rust, led by Locked Crate (5.6% chance), Scientist PT Boat Dry Box (2.8% chance), and Elite Crate (1.9% chance). Each listed probability reflects a single container opened or NPC killed, and found copies can be repaired or researched at base.
The HMLMG recycles in Rust at an unpowered green recycler into 1 Gears, 15 High Quality Metal, 1 Metal Spring plus a 50% chance of one more and a 50% chance of a Rifle Body. It belongs to the Weapons category under numeric ID -1214542497 across 85 weapons.
A repair bench fixes the HMLMG from broken for 8 High Quality Metal and 10 Metal Fragments in Rust. Repairing at a Repair Bench requires no learned blueprint, scales material cost by missing durability, and reduces maximum condition by 20% across a full durability bar.
Dropped with nothing attached or inside in Rust, the HMLMG despawns after 1 hour by default. Picking it back up into a player inventory or storing it inside a base container immediately resets that ground despawn timer, which the server scales by item rarity tier.
The HMLMG has 32-bit signed item ID -1214542497 and shortname hmlmg in Rust. Server plugins, custom loot tables, Vending Machine listings, and automated Industrial Conveyor filter strings reference these two identifiers under the Weapons category (stack limit 1 unit per slot).
Server administrators in Rust spawn the HMLMG in the F1 developer console by typing inventory.give hmlmg 1 or inventory.giveid -1214542497 1 for a single unit. Both console spawn commands require administrator or moderator privileges on the server, while regular players can bind a quick-craft shortcut key instead.
