Mycopunk 1.0 Weapon Tier List: Every Gun Ranked at Launch

Mycopunk left Steam Early Access and launched its full 1.0 version today, October 20, bringing a fourth playable robot, a new weapon, a new grenade, and a round of upgrade tuning across almost every gun in the New Atlas Hazard Crew's arsenal. None of that balance data has a season's worth of community win rates behind it yet, so what follows is our opinion tier list, built directly from developer Pigeons at Play's own 1.0 patch notes rather than guesswork about numbers nobody outside the studio has seen.

01How We're Ranking Mycopunk's Weapons at Launch

Mycopunk doesn't lock any robot into a class, and almost all of a weapon's real power comes from how you socket its upgrade grid rather than its base stats alone. That makes a traditional, number-crunched tier list impossible on day one of 1.0. Instead, we're ranking every primary by how much the launch patch actually changed about it: which guns got genuinely new tools in Pigeons at Play's "1.0 and the Moon" patch notes, which got a brand-new identity entirely, and which were left to coast into the full release unchanged. This is our opinion, not a verified win-rate ranking, and it will move once players have put real hours into the 1.0 build on Steam.

Quick Tier Rankings

1. 1New wide-cone shotgun built as the middle ground between the Jackrabbit and Carver; alt-fire tightens its spread for mid-range picks.S-Tier
2. 21.0's Confident Queen rare trades its ammo-refill loop for a bigger built-in magazine, keeping it a top sustained-damage primary.S-Tier
3. 3New Subzero Energy epic makes every bullet apply cryo, turning a straightforward rifle into the best built-in crowd control gun.A-Tier
4. 4Turkey's Bloodlust exotic banks blood stacks into a big damage window for aggressive playstyles.A-Tier
5. 5Tinderbox turbocharge only swaps its element to shock or acid, a side-grade rather than a power spike.C-Tier
6. 6Its two new turbocharges reward very specific airborne and ignited setups rather than broadly buffing the gun.C-Tier

02S-Tier: The Weapons Carrying Mycopunk's 1.0 Launch

The Diffraction Driver is the easiest S-tier call on this list simply because Pigeons at Play built it to solve a real gap in the loadout. The studio's own description places it as a wide-cone shotgun that lands "incredibly consistent damage within a good area," sitting as the middle ground between the Jackrabbit and the Carver for close-quarters fights. Holding alt-fire spins up its halo to tighten the spread and extend its range, which means it covers both the panic-button spray role and a tighter mid-range poke without needing a single upgrade. A weapon that's this flexible in its base kit is always going to start strong, and the fact that the developers specifically called out wanting something "unique enough on its own without any upgrades" tells you how confident they are in it.

The Accelerator keeps its S-tier spot from before 1.0, and the patch notes actually prove why the studio still treats it as a priority weapon. The new Confident Queen rare upgrade removes the old trick of refilling the Accelerator's magazine by dealing damage with your other weapon, but compensates with a straight increase to ammo capacity. Trading an infinite-ammo loop for a bigger built-in magazine is the kind of targeted adjustment you only make to a gun you expect people to keep using at the top of the meta, not one you're trying to push out of it.

03A-Tier: Reliable Picks With Real New 1.0 Tech

The Cycler jumps up a tier on the strength of its new Subzero Energy epic upgrade alone. Every bullet applying cryo turns a previously straightforward rifle into Mycopunk's best built-in crowd-control gun, even with the fire-rate penalty that comes attached. Pairing a gun that's already generically reliable with free elemental control at the socket level is a strong combination heading into launch.

The Carver lands in A-tier almost entirely because of its new Turkey's Bloodlust exotic, which lets you hold reload to consume all of your banked "blood" for a sustained damage boost, at the cost of not being able to gain more blood while it's active. That's a real build-around identity for an aggressive playstyle, and exotics are rare enough in Mycopunk's grid system that getting one this specific is a meaningful signal about where the developers see the weapon going.

The DMLR rounds out A-tier on the back of Stormcloud Accumulator, an epic upgrade where firing the DMR or laser mode spawns stackable cryo shards. A precision weapon that was already solid for picking off priority targets now layers in the same crowd-control utility the Cycler gets, just through a different delivery method.

04B-Tier: Solid, But Overshadowed at Launch

The Plate Launcher picks up Charging Port, an epic upgrade that lets you heal intermittently while standing on one of your deployed plates. That's a genuinely useful bit of sustain for a weapon that's already built around area control and team support, but it's a quality-of-life addition rather than a new way to deal damage, so it stays a strong support pick instead of climbing higher.

The Trident gets a brand-new exotic in Plasma Arc, firing a single arc of plasma that deals damage in a small area. It's a nice bit of extra utility on a weapon that was already a capable mid-pack pick, but one new exotic option isn't enough on its own to push it past the guns that got entire new identities this patch.

The Globbler benefits from both a new Solidified Acid rare upgrade, which increases impact damage, and a Pressure Cooker turbocharge that adds a point of magazine size. Both are welcome, incremental fixes for a weapon that's always felt a little starved for ammo, but neither one is a meta-defining change.

The Swarm Launcher gets the Breeding Season turbocharge, increasing the damage dealt by the pellets it spawns. It's a solid buff to a weapon that already does fine chip damage across a crowd, but it doesn't change what the gun fundamentally does.

05C-Tier: Where 1.0 Left Them Behind

The Gunship Cannon only gets the Tinderbox turbocharge this patch, which changes its element to shock or acid instead of adding anything new to its damage profile. That's a side-grade for flexibility against specific enemy resistances, not a power spike, and it leaves the Cannon in the same place it occupied before 1.0.

The Jackrabbit picks up two turbocharges, Flamethrower Turbocharge and All Powdered Up, both of which reward very specific situations: being ignited yourself, or being airborne above your target. Those are fun, flavorful tools for a mobility-focused playstyle, but they're niche enough that most players won't feel the Jackrabbit move up the pecking order at launch.

06Best Grenade to Pair With Your 1.0 Loadout

Grenades got their own shake-up at 1.0, and the new Snowball Grenade is the standout pickup if your loadout is light on crowd control. Pigeons at Play describes it as sitting on the opposite end of the spectrum from the Photon Disc, trading pure kill potential for a cryo-based crowd-control tool that can still finish enemies off when you need it to. If you're leaning into one of the new A-tier cryo weapons like the Cycler or DMLR, stacking the Snowball Grenade on top gives you a loadout built almost entirely around locking enemies down before they reach you.

The Photon Disc remains the pick if you want raw elemental proc chance instead, especially with its new Harmonizer turbocharge further increasing how often it triggers status effects. The renamed Voltaic Grenade and Caustic Grenade both got turbocharge support this patch too, with Caustic in particular picking up three separate options (Heavy Support, Overclock, and Connected Systems) that make it the most build-flexible grenade in the game right now, even if none of its individual turbocharges are flashy. The Incendiary Grenade's new Hearth & Home turbocharge, which speeds up your secondary ability's recharge near your last explosion, is a nice quality-of-life pickup but the least likely of the five to change how you build around it.

Devolver Digital's original Mycopunk reveal trailer from April 2025 — the studio hasn't posted a dedicated 1.0 launch trailer to its own channel yet, but it shows the core Hazard Crew and weapon fantasy this tier list is ranking.

07Will This Tier List Hold Up Past Launch Week?

Almost certainly not entirely. Mycopunk's grid-based upgrade system means a weapon's real ceiling depends on which specific mods you've unlocked and how you've infused patterns into them, and 1.0 also reworked how pattern size affects upgrade stats across the board, which changes the math on builds the community hasn't had time to work out yet. Treat this as a launch-day snapshot grounded in what Pigeons at Play actually changed, not a final verdict. The studio has also said more post-release content, including additional regions beyond the new X11-B moon area, is already in the works, so expect this list to keep shifting as Mycopunk's first full season plays out.