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The Snowball Gun holds 50 Snowballs, and no attachment fits it.
Ammo
Crates, barrels and NPCs that drop the Snowball Gun, most likely first
| From | Chance | Amount |
|---|---|---|
 SUPER Stocking, Christmas event only | 1.9% | 1 to 3 |
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 Snowball Gun gives back in each recycler
| Recycler | Efficiency | You get |
|---|---|---|
| Red recycler | 75% | 18 + 75%  High Quality Metal, 2 + 25%  Metal Pipe |
| Green recycler (powered) | 60% | 15 High Quality Metal, 1 + 80% Metal Pipe |
| Green recycler | 50% | 12 + 50% High Quality Metal, 1 + 50% Metal Pipe |
| Yellow recycler | 40% | 10 High Quality Metal, 1 + 20% Metal Pipe |
The Snowball Gun breaks down into High Quality Metal and Metal Pipe.
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. “18 + 75%” means 18 every time and a 75% chance of one more.
In Rust, Snowball Gun is a ranged weapon in the Weapons category (item ID #1103488722, console shortname snowballgun). 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 5 minutes.
Load snowballs and lay waste to your foes with Christmas cheer.
In Rust, Snowball Gun has no player crafting recipe; acquisition relies on map collection, smelting, or vendor trades 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 comparing Snowball Gun 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snowball Gun | Special | Single-shot | Special | 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 Snowball Gun with closely related ranged weapon sheets in the Rust item catalog:
To compare Snowball Gun against every item in its inventory category, browse All 85 items in Weapons.
The Snowball Gun fires Snowballs, 50 rounds to a magazine in Rust. It belongs to the Weapons category under numeric ID 1103488722 across 85 weapons and despawns after 5 minutes when dropped, with F1 console command inventory.giveid 1103488722 1 across 85 published Weapons entries.
The Snowball Gun recycles in Rust at an unpowered green recycler into 12 High Quality Metal plus a 50% chance of one more and 1 Metal Pipe plus a 50% chance of one more. It belongs to the Weapons category under numeric ID 1103488722 across 85 weapons.
A repair bench fixes the Snowball Gun 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.
Dropped on the ground in Rust, the Snowball Gun despawns after 5 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 Snowball Gun has 32-bit signed item ID 1103488722 and shortname snowballgun 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 Snowball Gun in the F1 developer console by typing inventory.give snowballgun 1 or inventory.giveid 1103488722 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.
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