Handmade Shell

Cheap shotgun ammo that needs no workbench of its own. It carries your first day and feeds shotgun traps, but buckshot outclasses it in PvP.

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Characteristics

Category: Ammunition

Stack size: 64

Craftable: Yes

Researchable: Yes · 10 Scrap

Damage: 20 × 9

Bullet speed: 100 m/s

Overview

In-game description

Shoddy ammo with multiple projectiles.

On day one, this is your shotgun ammo. The shell needs no workbench, so as soon as you have a bit of gunpowder, looted or made at a Level 1 bench, a waterpipe shotgun turns into something that really kills people in a doorway.

It's weak, though. The pellets spread wide and lose damage fast, so it only works up close and against players in cloth or wood armour. Someone in a full metal kit takes several hits, and the waterpipe gives you one shot before a reload.

Where it stays useful all wipe is defence. A shotgun trap behind your door is loaded with handmade shells, so keep a stack set aside for the traps even after you have better guns. The Eoka fires them too, if you enjoy suffering.

Once your Level 2 bench is down, move your own shotgun over to buckshot. Powder spent on handmade shells for PvP after that is mostly wasted.

Damage

Weapon	Close	Far	Per second
Blunderbuss	180	45	360
Double Barrel Shotgun	180	45	360
Eoka Pistol	180	45	120
Krieg Shotgun	180	45	164
M4 Shotgun	144	36	480
Pump Shotgun	180	45	164
Spas-12 Shotgun	135	33.8	540
Waterpipe Shotgun	180	45	90