Nailgun Nails
Standard nailgun ammunition
The Nailgun Nails is ammunition in Rust for one weapon, the Nailgun. In the Nailgun it deals 18 damage per shot, 54 damage per second. You can craft it without a workbench, and its blueprint costs 10 scrap to research.
About the Nailgun Nails
It flies at 50 m/s from the Nailgun.
One craft makes 5, so each costs 1.6 × Metal Fragments. A full stack of 64 takes 13 crafts and 26 seconds: 104 × Metal Fragments.
Nailgun Nails damage and stats
Where it lands changes its damage: ×1.5 to the head and ×0.75 to the legs and feet.
How to craft the Nailgun Nails
Crafting one takes 2 seconds without a workbench and costs 8 × Metal Fragments. One craft makes 5 of them.
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How to get the Nailgun Nails blueprint
Research it for 10 scrap at a Research Table.
1 Item 
10 Scrap Blueprint 10 
Nailgun 18 53.8 16 50 Damage is per shot and already carries each weapon’s own scale, so the same round is not the same number in every barrel. DPS assumes the weapon fires without stopping.
80% 96% 
×1 20% 
64% Stats checked against the Rust game files on 12 November 2026.
