No high quality metal goes into this bolt, and that is its quiet advantage. The hammerhead bolt wants HQM on top of its fragments; this one takes frags, cloth and a splash of low grade fuel, things any group has lying around. When armour and guns have claimed every bit of HQM, incendiaries are the bolts you can still make.
Craft them in pairs: one bolt leaves a little fuel over from its batch, two use it exactly. Learn the ballista first, since the bolt blueprint is useless without it and both sit at the same Level 2 bench. Then keep a few ready rather than a box, because the fire only pays against wood.
Questions
Incendiary Bolt ×10: how many resources?
Metal Fragments ×500, Cloth ×125, Animal Fat ×75.
Which workbench does Incendiary Bolt need?
Workbench level 2.
How long does Incendiary Bolt take to craft?
20 s for one, every step included.
How much scrap does researching Incendiary Bolt take?