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The M249 holds 100 rounds and accepts 11 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 | 65 | ×2 | 487.5 m/s | 335 |
Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo | 65, +5 within 1.5 m | ×2 | 292.5 m/s | 361 |
HV 5.56 Rifle Ammo | 65 | ×2 | 585 m/s | 335 |
Incendiary 5.56 Rifle Ammo | 72.8 | ×2 | 292.5 m/s | 376 |
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 M249, most likely first
| From | Chance | Amount |
|---|---|---|
 Helicopter Crate, 4 crates per Patrol Helicopter | 10% | 1 |
 Bradley Crate, 3 crates per Bradley APC | 8.3% | 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 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 M249 gives back in each recycler
| Recycler | Efficiency | You get |
|---|---|---|
| Red recycler | 75% | 4 + 50%  Gears, 30  High Quality Metal, 4 + 50%  Metal Spring, 75%  Rifle Body |
| Green recycler (powered) | 60% | 3 + 60% Gears, 24 High Quality Metal, 3 + 60% Metal Spring, 60% Rifle Body |
| Green recycler | 50% | 3 Gears, 20 High Quality Metal, 3 Metal Spring, 50% Rifle Body |
| Yellow recycler | 40% | 2 + 40% Gears, 16 High Quality Metal, 2 + 40% Metal Spring, 40% Rifle Body |
The M249 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. “4 + 50%” means 4 every time and a 50% chance of one more, and a percentage alone is the chance of getting one.
On the Steam Market, the 25 skins for the M249 sell for $0.89 at the cheapest and $12.34 at the dearest.
Also listed: 6 Twitch and Kick drops, marked “Drop”. They never reach the market, so they have no price.
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In Rust, M249 is a ranged weapon in the Weapons category (item ID #-2069578888, console shortname lmg.m249). 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.
High damage, high rate of fire, belt fed light machine gun.
In Rust, M249 has no player crafting recipe; acquisition relies on 2 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.
Only one of the 43 ranged weapons holds more rounds than the M249.
When comparing M249 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M249 | 65 dmg | 500 RPM | 335.4 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 M249 with closely related ranged weapon sheets in the Rust item catalog:
To compare M249 against every item in its inventory category, browse All 85 items in Weapons.
Loaded with standard ammunition, the M249 deals 65 base damage per hit at 500 RPM (335.4 sustained DPS) in Rust, dropping to 80% damage past 130 m. Against a fifty-percent projectile-protection Metal Chest Plate, close torso hits deal thirty-three net damage and down a full-health player in four shots.
The M249 fires 5.56 Rifle Ammo, Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo, HV 5.56 Rifle Ammo and Incendiary 5.56 Rifle Ammo, 100 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 M249 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 M249 drops from 2 container and NPC loot tables in Rust, led by Helicopter Crate (10% chance) and Bradley Crate (8.3% chance). Each listed probability reflects a single container opened or NPC killed, and found copies can be repaired or researched at base.
The M249 recycles in Rust at an unpowered green recycler into 3 Gears, 20 High Quality Metal, 3 Metal Springs and a 50% chance of a Rifle Body. Undamaged copies return the full listed yield, whereas worn items scale their recycler output down in proportion to remaining durability.
A repair bench fixes the M249 from broken for 11 High Quality Metal and 30 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 M249 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 M249 has 32-bit signed item ID -2069578888 and shortname lmg.m249 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 M249 in the F1 developer console by typing inventory.give lmg.m249 1 or inventory.giveid -2069578888 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.
Metal Fragments
