Weapons

HMLMG

hmlmg

A craftable homemade light machine gun with a large magazine but heavy recoil and poor accuracy.

Crafting one takes 30× High Quality Metal, 1× Rifle Body, 3× Metal Spring, 2× Gears at a Workbench Lvl 3. It fires 5.56 Rifle Ammo, HV 5.56 Rifle Ammo. A recycler breaks one down into High Quality Metal, Metal Spring. 13 skins exist for it — see every HMLMG skin with live prices, topped by Redemption HMLMG.

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Damage & Attachments

57.5

Damage

Capacity

Ammo Types

5.56 Rifle Ammo	Standard rifle round.
HV 5.56 Rifle Ammo	Higher velocity, flatter trajectory.
Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo	Damages structures; less player damage.
Incendiary 5.56 Rifle Ammo	Starts fires; reduced direct damage.

Compatible Attachments

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Crafting

Quantity

High Quality Metal	×30
Rifle Body	×1
Metal Spring	×3
Gears	×2

Workbench Lvl 3Craft time: 30s

Blueprint

120

Research (scrap)

120

Tech tree node (scrap)

660

Tech tree path (scrap)

Workbench Lvl 3

Requires

Recycling

Quantity

recyclingSafezone Recycler

High Quality Metal	×12
Rifle Body	×1(40%)
Metal Spring	×1
Metal Spring	×1(20%)
Gears	×1(80%)

warningRadtown Recycler

High Quality Metal	×18
Rifle Body	×1(60%)
Metal Spring	×1
Metal Spring	×1(80%)
Gears	×1
Gears	×1(20%)

Radtown recyclers (found in monuments) give more than the safe-zone recyclers at Outpost and Bandit Camp. A percentage next to a yield is the chance of receiving it.

Repair

buildRepair Bench

High Quality Metal	×14
Metal Fragments	×10

Condition lost per repair: 20%Blueprint required: Yes

Cost shown is the maximum, to repair from near-broken to full condition.

Looted From

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Popular HMLMG Skins

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12 skins are listed, from $0.59 to $3.42, with a median of $1.01. Each price is the cheapest current listing, checked 2026-09-19.

Skin	Skinport	Steam Market	LIS-SKINS	Skin.Land	Best
Protector HMLMG	$0.59	$0.94	$0.59	$0.60	$0.59
No Mercy HMLMG	$0.71	$0.94	$0.67	$0.68	$0.67
Bird of Luck HMLMG	$0.69	—	—	—	$0.69
ElvenMade HMLMG	$0.88	$1.19	$0.80	$0.81	$0.80
Cold Hunter HMLMG	$0.82	$1.31	$0.82	$0.83	$0.82
Training HMLMG	$0.94	$1.46	$0.97	$0.98	$0.92
Year of the Horse HMLMG	$1.03	$1.40	$1.01	$1.02	$1.01
Christmas Candy HMLMG	$1.21	$2.31	—	—	$1.21
Tempered HMLMG	$1.29	$2.10	$1.89	$1.90	$1.29
Temple HMLMG	$1.32	$1.90	$1.65	$1.66	$1.32
Thundergold HMLMG	$1.59	$2.30	$1.58	$1.58	$1.58
Blackout HMLMG	$2.49	$3.42	$2.29	$2.30	$2.29
Redemption HMLMG	$6.75	$4.49	$3.59	$3.60	$3.42

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Change History

Datamined from the game files on each Rust build — including changes the patch notes never mention. See every change on the Rust changes explorer.

2026-09-09

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