5.56 Rifle Ammo

This is what your rifles eat. The semi-automatic rifle is usually the first gun people feed it, and from there it carries you through the AK, the bolt and most of what comes out of a locked crate. If you are fighting with guns rather than bows, you are almost certainly burning 5.56.

Crafting it needs a Level 2 workbench, which is the point where most groups stop relying on scavenged ammo. After that the limit is gunpowder. A long online raid or a busy evening at a monument can eat through boxes of it, so a group that farms sulfur keeps a mixing table busy.

The bullet loses speed over long distances and hits a bit softer for it. Up to normal fighting range nobody will notice. For pinning someone across a valley with a bolt, HV rounds fly faster and drop less, though they eat more gunpowder per round.