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The Homing Missile Launcher fires only Homing Missiles, one per reload.
Damage is one body hit with 
Homing Missile, up close.
What one batch takes.
The same recipe expanded until every line is something you gather, smelt or loot.
Scrap
High Quality Metal
Tech Trash
CCTV Camera
High Quality Metal
Metal Pipe
Tech Trash
CCTV Camera
Copy it, then hold Shift and click Paste (JSON) in the conveyor, in game.
[
{
"TargetCategory": null,
"MaxAmountInOutput": 20,
"BufferAmount": 0,
"MinAmountInInput": 0,
"IsBlueprint": false,
"TargetItemName": "metal.refined"
},
{
"TargetCategory": null,
"MaxAmountInOutput": 3,
"BufferAmount": 0,
"MinAmountInInput": 0,
"IsBlueprint": false,
"TargetItemName": "metalpipe"
},
{
"TargetCategory": null,
"MaxAmountInOutput": 1,
"BufferAmount": 0,
"MinAmountInInput": 0,
"IsBlueprint": false,
"TargetItemName": "techparts"
},
{
"TargetCategory": null,
"MaxAmountInOutput": 1,
"BufferAmount": 0,
"MinAmountInInput": 0,
"IsBlueprint": false,
"TargetItemName": "cctv.camera"
}
]
Workbench Level 2, 25s, yields 1
Faster at a higher workbench: 12.5s at Workbench Level 3.
Researching the blueprint costs 60 scrap at a Research Table.
| Ammo | Damage | On a player | Velocity | Damage per second |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Homing Missile | 530, 3.5 m blast | 30 | 12.5 m/s | 5 |
Damage is one body hit up close, with no armour. 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.
Crates, barrels and NPCs that drop the Homing Missile Launcher, most likely first
| From | Chance | Amount |
|---|---|---|
 Locked Crate | 1.3% | 1 to 2 |
 Elite Crate | 0.78% | 1 to 3 |
| Scientist PT Boat Dry Box | 0.73% | 1 to 3 |
 Military Crate | 0.42% | 1 |
 Underwater Lab Military Crate | 0.42% | 1 |
 Wagon Military Crate | 0.42% | 1 |
Missile Silo Scientist (underground) | 0.3% | 1 |
Scientist | 0.074% | 1 |
Heavy Scientist | 0.061% | 1 |
 Treasure Box, mission reward | 1.6% | 1 to 2 |
 Gingerbread Mine Present, Christmas event only | 0.42% | 1 |
Chance is for one container opened or one NPC killed. Amount is how many it holds when it holds any.
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 Homing Missile Launcher gives back in each recycler
| Recycler | Efficiency | You get |
|---|---|---|
| Red recycler | 75% | 75% CCTV Camera, 15 High Quality Metal, 2 + 25% Metal Pipe, 75% Tech Trash |
| Green recycler (powered) | 60% | 60% CCTV Camera, 12 High Quality Metal, 1 + 80% Metal Pipe, 60% Tech Trash |
| Green recycler | 50% | 50% CCTV Camera, 10 High Quality Metal, 1 + 50% Metal Pipe, 50% Tech Trash |
| Yellow recycler | 40% | 40% CCTV Camera, 8 High Quality Metal, 1 + 20% Metal Pipe, 40% Tech Trash |
The Homing Missile Launcher breaks down into CCTV Camera, High Quality Metal, Metal Pipe and Tech Trash.
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. “2 + 25%” means 2 every time and a 25% chance of one more, and a percentage alone is the chance of getting one.
In Rust, Homing Missile Launcher is a ranged weapon in the Weapons category (item ID #-218009552, console shortname homingmissile.launcher). Loaded with standard Homing Missile, it delivers 530 base impact damage from a single-round chamber in active combat. Inventory storage holds a single unit per slot, and uncollected ground drops despawn after 40 minutes.
An active-guidance homing missile launcher. Once launched, the target must be tracked by the launcher until impact. Can be distracted by flares.
Crafting Homing Missile Launcher in Rust takes 25 seconds at a Workbench Level 2 once the 60 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.
When choosing between Homing Missile Launcher and related weapons in Rust, prioritize researching a looted or traded copy at a Research Table (60 scrap) whenever you want to skip the 1,050-scrap tech tree path and save 990 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Homing Missile Launcher | 530 dmg | 5.92s cycle | 5.1 DPS | Workbench Level 2 | 60 node / 1,050 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 Homing Missile Launcher with closely related ranged weapon sheets in the Rust item catalog:
To compare Homing Missile Launcher against every item in its inventory category, browse All 85 items in Weapons, or plan prerequisite scrap paths on the The Workbench Level 2 tech tree, tile by tile.
Loaded with standard ammunition, the Homing Missile Launcher deals 530 base damage per hit, firing once every 5.9 seconds (5.1 sustained DPS) in Rust. Against a fifty-percent projectile-protection Metal Chest Plate, close torso hits deal 265 net damage and down a full-health player in one shot.
The Homing Missile Launcher fires Homing Missiles, reloading after every shot in Rust. It sits in the Weapons catalog with item ID -218009552 alongside 84 related weapons, while F1 console command inventory.giveid -218009552 1 spawns 1 unit for testing across 85 published Weapons entries.
The Homing Missile Launcher is crafted at a Workbench Level 2 from 20 High Quality Metal, 3 Metal Pipe, 1 Tech Trash and 1 CCTV Camera, once the blueprint is learned in Rust. Non-craftable components like Tech Trash must be looted from monument crates or recycled gear before queuing the craft at your bench.
The Homing Missile Launcher drops from 9 container and NPC loot tables in Rust, led by Locked Crate (1.3% chance), Elite Crate (0.78% chance), and Scientist PT Boat Dry Box (0.73% chance). It belongs to the Weapons category under numeric ID -218009552 across 85 weapons.
The Homing Missile Launcher recycles in Rust at an unpowered green recycler into a 50% chance of a CCTV Camera, 10 High Quality Metal, 1 Metal Pipe plus a 50% chance of one more and a 50% chance of a Tech Trash.
A repair bench fixes the Homing Missile Launcher from broken for 7 High Quality Metal in Rust. Repairing at a Repair Bench requires no learned blueprint or rare component body, scaling material cost to missing durability while permanently capping maximum condition by 20% across a full repair.
Blueprint progression for Homing Missile Launcher at Workbench Level 2 in Rust charges 60 scrap on the target node and 1,050 cumulative scrap along the prerequisite branch, while direct blueprint study at a Research Table charges 60 scrap.
Dropped on the ground in Rust, the Homing Missile Launcher despawns after 40 minutes 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 Homing Missile Launcher has 32-bit signed item ID -218009552 and shortname homingmissile.launcher 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 Homing Missile Launcher in the F1 developer console by typing inventory.give homingmissile.launcher 1 or inventory.giveid -218009552 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.