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Ammunition

Fragmentation Mortar Shell

The mortar shell you fire at people, not walls. It covers a wide area on impact, so it punishes a group bunched up on a roof or at a monument.

Characteristics

Category
Ammunition
Stack size
10
Workbench
Level 2
Craftable
Yes
Researchable
Yes · 30 Scrap
Damage
75
Blast radius
6 m

Overview

In-game description
A fragmentation mortar shell, dealing lethal damage in a large area on impact.

Load fragmentation shells when the targets are players. The plain mortar shell already does only minor damage to buildings, and this one leans even further that way: it exists to kill whoever is standing near the impact. Think of it as a tool for breaking up a group, not for raiding.

Picture a clan sitting on their roof while you raid them, or a team looting a crate at a monument. The mortar lobs shells in an arc and trades precision for volume, so you want several shells landing around the spot rather than one perfect hit. A teammate on binoculars calling corrections helps a lot, since from the tube you often can't see where the rounds come down.

Each shell costs gunpowder that could have been rifle ammo, and a miss is still a miss. Walk your first couple of shots onto the target before you commit the stack. And if your own team is pushing into that area, stop firing, because shrapnel doesn't care whose side you're on.

Crafting

×150 Gun Powder ×1 Metal Pipe
×3 Fragmentation Mortar Shell
Workbench level
Level 2
Crafting time
5 s
Research cost
30 Scrap

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Recycling

Recycler

At power grid stage 2 a green recycler works at 60% instead of 50%. Yields depend on the recycler.

How to get

  • Craft

    at a Level 2 Workbench

  • Research

    30 Scrap at a Research Table