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The L96 Rifle holds 5 rounds and accepts 12 of the 15 weapon attachments.
Damage is one body hit with 
5.56 Rifle Ammo, up close.
| Ammo | Damage | Headshot | Velocity | Damage per second |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
5.56 Rifle Ammo | 80 | ×2 | 1,125 m/s | 30 |
Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo | 80, +5 within 1.5 m | ×2 | 675 m/s | 32 |
HV 5.56 Rifle Ammo | 80 | ×2 | 1,350 m/s | 30 |
Incendiary 5.56 Rifle Ammo | 89.6 | ×2 | 675 m/s | 33 |
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 onMagazine
Extended Magazine: +25% Magazine sizeCrates, barrels and NPCs that drop the L96 Rifle, most likely first
| From | Chance | Amount | Condition |
|---|---|---|---|
 Bradley Crate, 3 crates per Bradley APC | 8.7% | 1 | 100% |
 Locked Crate | 6.1% | 1 | 100% |
 Elite Crate | 0.81% | 1 | 1 to 5% |
Heavy Scientist | 0.63% | 1 | 100% |
 Helicopter Crate, 4 crates per Patrol Helicopter | 0.63% | 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 item’s 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 L96 Rifle gives back in each recycler
| Recycler | Efficiency | You get |
|---|---|---|
| Red recycler | 75% | 30  High Quality Metal, 4 + 50%  Metal Pipe, 3 + 75%  Metal Spring, 75%  Rifle Body |
| Green recycler (powered) | 60% | 24 High Quality Metal, 3 + 60% Metal Pipe, 3 Metal Spring, 60% Rifle Body |
| Green recycler | 50% | 20 High Quality Metal, 3 Metal Pipe, 2 + 50% Metal Spring, 50% Rifle Body |
| Yellow recycler | 40% | 16 High Quality Metal, 2 + 40% Metal Pipe, 2 Metal Spring, 40% Rifle Body |
The L96 Rifle breaks down into High Quality Metal, Metal Pipe, 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. “4 + 50%” means 4 every time and a 50% chance of one more, and a percentage alone is the chance of getting one.
26 skins on the Steam Market change how the L96 Rifle looks, from $0.78 to $3.62.
Also listed: 3 Twitch and Kick drops, marked “Drop”. They never reach the market, so they have no price.
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In Rust, L96 Rifle is a ranged weapon in the Weapons category (item ID #-778367295, console shortname rifle.l96). In active play, it follows standard server rules for ranged weapon gear across procedural maps. Inventory storage holds a single unit per slot, and uncollected ground drops despawn after 1 hour.
A military grade high powered, long range rifle with great accuracy.
In Rust, L96 Rifle has no player crafting recipe; acquisition relies on 5 world loot tables 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.
The L96 Rifle accepts 12 different attachments, as do the Prototype 17, the M4 Shotgun and the MP5A4.
When comparing L96 Rifle against related weapons in Rust, prioritize farming its highest-probability monument containers or recycling surplus components at an unpowered radtown green recycler (fifty percent base yield, versus forty percent at safe-zone yellow units) because this item cannot be crafted at a player workbench.
| Weapon | Damage | Fire Rate | Sustained DPS | Workbench / Source | Blueprint (Node / Path) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L96 Rifle | 80 dmg | 23 RPM | 29.9 DPS | Military crate / Vendor | Uncraftable |
| 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 L96 Rifle with closely related ranged weapon sheets in the Rust item catalog:
To compare L96 Rifle against every item in its inventory category, browse All 85 items in Weapons.
Loaded with standard ammunition, the L96 Rifle deals 80 base damage per hit up to a 23 RPM semi-automatic ceiling (29.9 sustained DPS) in Rust, dropping to 80% damage past 200 m. It belongs to the Weapons category under numeric ID -778367295 across 85 weapons.
The L96 Rifle fires 5.56 Rifle Ammo, Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo, HV 5.56 Rifle Ammo and Incendiary 5.56 Rifle Ammo, 5 rounds to a magazine or seven with an Extended Magazine in Rust. Holding the reload key (R) opens the radial selector to swap compatible ammunition types from your inventory.
Up to 3 weapon mods equip simultaneously on the L96 Rifle in Rust across 12 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); magazine (Extended Magazine).
The L96 Rifle drops from 5 container and NPC loot tables in Rust, led by Bradley Crate (8.7% chance), Locked Crate (6.1% chance), and Elite Crate (0.81% chance). Each listed probability reflects a single container opened or NPC killed, and found copies can be repaired or researched at base.
The L96 Rifle recycles in Rust at an unpowered green recycler into 20 High Quality Metal, 3 Metal Pipes, 2 Metal Springs plus a 50% chance of one more and a 50% chance of a Rifle Body.
A repair bench fixes the L96 Rifle from broken for 13 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.
Dropped with nothing attached or inside in Rust, the L96 Rifle 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 L96 Rifle has 32-bit signed item ID -778367295 and shortname rifle.l96 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 L96 Rifle in the F1 developer console by typing inventory.give rifle.l96 1 or inventory.giveid -778367295 1 for a single unit. Both console spawn commands work only on dedicated or local worlds where your Steam account holds administrator or moderator privileges.
