Rust Damage Calculator

C4 doesn't have one fixed damage number against players the way a gun does — it's a raid explosive, and its effective damage against a structure changes depending on that structure's material and resistances. For exact counts against a specific wall or door, use the raid chart instead of a flat damage figure.

Same story as C4 — a rocket's effective damage depends on what it's hitting (stone, metal and HQM all resist differently), so there's no single number that applies everywhere. See the raid chart for exact rocket counts per structure.

65 body damage per shot at 86 RPM — 2 body shots to drop a 100 HP player. It's the hardest-hitting pistol-class weapon in Rust, trading a slow fire rate and small magazine for near-rifle damage per hit.

Depends entirely on the weapon and hit location — a base player has 100 HP. An Assault Rifle (50 damage) kills in 2 body shots, an MP5A4 (33 damage) takes 4, and a Bolt Action Rifle (80 damage) takes 2. Headshots deal more, but we don't have a verified headshot multiplier to publish a one-shot number. Use the calculator above for any weapon's body-shot count.

Among weapons that need more than one hit, the Assault Rifle is fastest against a 100 HP player — 2 body shots at 450 RPM, about 0.13s. The Double Barrel Shotgun, Waterpipe Shotgun, M4 Shotgun technically beat that by killing in a single shot, but only at point-blank range with every pellet connecting. Raw TTK also assumes every shot lands, and says nothing about recoil, range or how forgiving the weapon is under pressure.

A shotgun's damage figure is the total across all its pellets, so it only lands in full at close range with every pellet connecting. At distance the pellets spread and a fraction of that number actually hits, which is why a shotgun's shots-to-kill in this table is a best case rather than a typical one.

TTK is how long a weapon takes to land enough hits to kill a target, based on its damage per shot and fire rate. A high-damage, low-RPM weapon and a low-damage, high-RPM weapon can end up with similar TTK against the same target despite completely different playstyles.