Unturned guns compared

Every gun in Unturned 3.26.3.14: how many shots it takes to kill a player to the head and to the body, how long that takes, and the best gun for each job, worked out from the game's own numbers. The table assumes a target in full military gear; change the armour below. For IDs only, see the gun ID list.

• Best gun for each job
• All guns compared 61
• Assault and battle rifles 10
• Sniper and marksman rifles 7
• Carbines and SMGs 9
• Machine guns 3
• Shotguns 7
• Pistols and revolvers 9
• Railguns 2
• Wooden rifles 3
• Bows and crossbows 5
• Mounted on vehicles 3
• Launchers and tools 3
• How the numbers work

Best gun for each job

Each pick is the top of a sort on the numbers in the table, against a player in full military gear (Military Helmet, Military Vest, Military Top and Military Bottom) on a default Normal server. Kill times within a tenth of a second count as a tie, and the gun that needs fewer shots wins it. Shotguns only compete for close range, because their numbers assume every pellet lands.

• Best gun for PvP: Fusilaut. 5 body shots kill a player in full military gear, 0.32 s from the first shot to the last.
• Best sniper: Grizzly. 2 headshots kill through a military helmet, or 3 body shots, with a range of 300 m, the longest of the guns that do that. On Hard (Allow_Instakill_Headshots), its headshots ignore helmets, so one kills.
• Best close-range gun: Sawed-Off. One body shot kills a player in full military gear when 4 of its 8 pellets hit. No other shotgun needs a smaller share of its pellets to land.
• Best secondary (pistol slot): Desert Falcon. 3 body shots kill a player in full military gear, 0.44 s from the first shot to the last.
• Best gun that's easy to find: Luger. The fastest kill of the Common and Uncommon guns. 8 body shots kill a player in full military gear, 0.42 s from the first shot to the last.
• Best against zombies: Hell's Fury. One magazine kills 125 zombies (100 health) with body shots: 250 rounds, 2 shots each.
• Best against vehicles: Hell's Fury. 10,000 vehicle damage in one magazine (10 a hit × 4 pellets, 250 rounds).

What is the best gun in Unturned?

For PvP, the Fusilaut: 5 body shots kill a player in full military gear, 0.32 s from the first shot to the last. That is the fastest kill of any non-shotgun, read from the game files of 3.26.3.14.

What is the best sniper in Unturned?

The Grizzly. 2 headshots kill through a military helmet, or 3 body shots, with a range of 300 m, the longest of the guns that do that. On Hard (Allow_Instakill_Headshots), its headshots ignore helmets, so one kills.

All guns compared

Against full military gear on a default server.

Shots and kill time assume every bullet lands on that body part, at a range inside any damage falloff, with full-quality ammo and no attachments. Players have 100 health; zombies here have 100, the most common value (zombie types and health). "Reload" means the kill takes more shots than one magazine holds. A shotgun's one-shot kill shows how many of its pellets must hit: 5/8 means 5 of its 8.

Assault and battle rifles

10 guns, fastest body kill on a player in military gear first.

1. Fusilaut 5 shots, 0.32 s
2. Matamorez 3 shots, 0.36 s
3. Eaglefire 5 shots, 0.4 s
4. Maplestrike 5 shots, 0.48 s
5. Nightraider 5 shots, 0.48 s
6. Swissgewehr 5 shots, 0.48 s
7. Zubeknakov 6 shots, 0.5 s
8. Augewehr 5 shots, 0.64 s
9. Heartbreaker 5 shots, 0.64 s
10. Schofield 3 shots, 2.04 s

Sniper and marksman rifles

7 guns, fastest body kill on a player in military gear first.

1. Sabertooth 4 shots, 0.66 s
2. Grizzly 3 shots, 0.84 s
3. Snayperskya 4 shots, 0.84 s
4. Sportshot 10 shots, 0.9 s
5. Ekho 3 shots, 2.04 s
6. Hawkhound 3 shots, 2.04 s
7. Timberwolf 3 shots, 2.04 s

Carbines and SMGs

9 guns, fastest body kill on a player in military gear first.

1. PDW 5 shots, 0.4 s
2. Scalar 7 shots, 0.48 s
3. Bulldog 10 shots, 0.54 s
4. Calling Card 7 shots, 0.6 s
5. Empire 7 shots, 0.72 s
6. Peacemaker 10 shots, 0.72 s
7. Yuri 10 shots, 0.72 s
8. Viper 9 shots, 0.8 s
9. Maschinengewehr 7 shots, 0.84 s

Machine guns

3 guns, fastest body kill on a player in military gear first.

1. Dragonfang 5 shots, 0.4 s
2. Hell's Fury 7 shots, 0.48 s
3. Nykorev 7 shots, 0.72 s

Shotguns

7 guns, fastest body kill on a player in military gear first.

1. Bluntforce 1 shot, 5 of 6 pellets
2. Masterkey 1 shot, 5 of 8 pellets
3. Quadbarrel 1 shot, 5 of 6 pellets
4. Sawed-Off 1 shot, 4 of 8 pellets
5. Vonya 1 shot, 6 of 6 pellets
6. Determinator 2 shots, 0.1 s
7. Devil's Bane 2 shots, 0.22 s

Pistols and revolvers

9 guns, fastest body kill on a player in military gear first.

1. Luger 8 shots, 0.42 s
2. Desert Falcon 3 shots, 0.44 s
3. Teklowvka 7 shots, 0.48 s
4. Avenger 7 shots, 0.6 s
5. Ace 4 shots, 0.66 s
6. Cobra 9 shots, 0.8 s
7. Cobra Jam 9 shots, 0.8 s
8. Kryzkarek 9 shots, 0.8 s
9. 1911 9 shots, more than a magazine

Railguns

2 guns, fastest body kill on a player in military gear first.

1. Shadowstalker Mk. II 4 shots, 0.96 s
2. Shadowstalker 3 shots, more than a magazine

Wooden rifles

3 guns, fastest body kill on a player in military gear first.

1. Birch Rifle 3 shots, 2.04 s
2. Maple Rifle 3 shots, 2.04 s
3. Pine Rifle 3 shots, 2.04 s

Bows and crossbows

5 guns, fastest body kill on a player in military gear first.

1. Compound Bow 3 shots, more than a magazine
2. Crossbow 3 shots, more than a magazine
3. Birch Bow 4 shots, more than a magazine
4. Maple Bow 4 shots, more than a magazine
5. Pine Bow 4 shots, more than a magazine

Mounted on vehicles

3 guns, left out of the picks above because they are mounted on vehicles, fire explosives or aren't meant as weapons.

1. HMG 6 shots, 0.8 s
2. HMG 6 shots, 0.8 s
3. Tank Cannon

Launchers and tools

3 guns, left out of the picks above because they are mounted on vehicles, fire explosives or aren't meant as weapons.

1. Nailgun 12 shots, 0.88 s
2. Paintball Gun 15 shots, 1.12 s
3. Rocket Launcher

How the numbers work

• Each hit does the gun's player damage times the multiplier for the body part it hits (head, body, arm or leg), times the armour on that part, rounded down. A helmet covers the head, a vest and a top together cover the body, the top covers the arms and the bottom covers the legs. An armour value of 0.7 lets 70% of the damage through.
• The server's Players.Armor_Multiplier scales every hit. Guns with instakill headshots skip the helmet only when the server allows it, which Hard mode does by default.
• A shotgun fires several pellets per shot, and each pellet is its own hit. Some machine-gun ammo boxes fire more than one bullet per shot too.
• Fire rate is the game's own: one shot every Firerate + 1 ticks, at 50 ticks a second. Kill time is the time from the first shot to the last, without a reload.
• Left out: recoil, spread, bullet drop and travel time, damage falloff at long range, attachments (a muffler cuts damage by 20%), and how rare a gun is on your map. Each gun's page has its spread, attachments and where it spawns.

Read from the game files of Unturned 3.26.3.14; the page rebuilds itself when the game updates.