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Ammunition

Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo

Rifle ammo for chipping through soft targets during a raid, not for shooting people. It needs a Level 3 workbench and a steady supply of sulfur.

Characteristics

Category
Ammunition
Stack size
128
Workbench
Level 3
Craftable
Yes
Researchable
Yes · 60 Scrap
Damage
50
Bullet speed
225 m/s

Overview

In-game description
This ammo explodes on contact dealing a small amount of fragmentation damage to nearby objects.

Explo ammo is a raiding tool that happens to fit in your rifle. Each bullet pops on impact and does a little fragmentation damage to whatever is nearby, so a long burst slowly eats through things that would be a waste of a C4.

The classic use is finishing a target. You are one hit short on a door or a wall, the group is out of rockets, and you'd rather spend a few mags than another big charge. It works best on wooden walls and sheet metal doors, where it's cheaper in sulfur than proper boom.

It's a bad fighting round. The bullets fly slower than regular 5.56 and wear your rifle down fast, so swap back before anyone shows up. The usual way online raids go wrong is defenders arriving while the raiders still have explo loaded in every AK.

Watch out

Carry a stack of normal 5.56 too and switch the ammo type as soon as you step off the wall. Mid-fight is a terrible time to dig through your inventory.

You need a Level 3 workbench to make it, and sulfur goes into every batch. Count it against your raid budget like any other explosive.

Damage

Velocity
225 m/s
Falloff
100% up to 20 m, 80% from 100 m

What it destroys

Target Quantity Sulfur
Wall Wood 48–49 1,200–1,250
Wall Stone 182–185 4,550–4,650
Wall Metal 399–400 10,000
Wall Armored 798–799 19,950–20,000
Wooden Door 18–19 450–500
Sheet Metal Door 63 1,600
Armored Door 250 6,250
Wood Double Door 18–19 450–500
Sheet Metal Double Door 63 1,600
Armored Double Door 250 6,250
Garage Door 150 3,750
Ladder Hatch 63 1,600
Armored Ladder Hatch 250 6,250
High External Wooden Wall 96–98 2,400–2,450
High External Stone Wall 182–185 4,550–4,650

Direct hit, hard side, no duds. A range runs from point blank to the far end of the bullet's falloff, fired from an Assault Rifle.

Crafting

Workbench level
Level 3
Crafting time
3 s
Research cost
60 Scrap

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Recycling

Recycler

At power grid stage 2 a green recycler works at 60% instead of 50%. Yields depend on the recycler.

How to get

  • Craft

    at a Level 3 Workbench

  • Research

    60 Scrap at a Research Table