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Minigun

Four rifle bodies sit inside every minigun, and no blueprint can be learned. That makes it the priciest loot in your box and a hard keep-or-recycle call.

Data: Rust build 2026-10-02

Item details

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Summary

High Quality Metal
×50
Craft time
30 s
Workbench
Level 3
Research
0 Scrap

Resources

Crafting tree

Minigun ×1

Crafting chain

Item Crafts × yield Left over
Minigun30 s · Level 3 1 × 1 —

About this craft

Hold a minigun and you are holding four AKs' worth of rifle bodies. The row marks it not researchable, so nobody crafts one; it comes from loot, as its item page says, and the calculator only shows what a replacement would take. That bill never gets paid.

That is what makes the recycler tempting. The ordinary one gives back two bodies every time, not on a coin toss, plus half the pipes and a few springs. Add springs and HQM and those are two assault rifles, guns you can repair and rebuild.

Keep it if your fights happen at home. It reloads only near a Level 2 workbench or better and can't be repaired, so it belongs on a roof during an online raid and almost nowhere else. A group that roams more than it defends gets more out of the two bodies.

Questions

Minigun ×10: how many resources?

High Quality Metal ×500, Metal Pipe ×120, Metal Spring ×60, Rifle Body ×40.

Which workbench does Minigun need?

Workbench level 3.

How long does Minigun take to craft?

30 s for one, every step included.

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Quick facts

Item
Minigun
Category
Weapon
Stack size
1
Yield per craft
1
Workbench
Level 3
Research
—