Incendiary Bolt

A cloth-wrapped ballista bolt that bursts into flame on impact. Pick it when what you are hitting burns: wooden walls, doors and the people behind them.

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Characteristics

Category: Ammunition

Stack size: 3

Workbench: Level 2

Craftable: Yes

Researchable: Yes · 30 Scrap

Damage: 75

Bullet speed: 100 m/s

Overview

In-game description

A fire-tipped bolt for a ballista, wrapped in burning cloth, ignites upon impact.

This is the bolt you shoot at things made of wood. It ignites on impact, so a hit on a wooden door, a high external wooden wall or a player standing in the open keeps burning after the bolt itself has landed.

Picture a clan two grids over still sitting behind wooden walls on day one. Park a ballista behind a rock, put several of these into the same section of wall and let the fire do part of the work before you swap back to normal bolts. Against stone or sheet metal the flames are mostly decoration, so check what tier you are hitting first.

Your bulk ammo should stay the hammerhead bolt. Incendiary is the specialist you keep one stack of. On top of metal fragments it needs cloth and low grade fuel, both of which you collect without even trying, so making a few costs you very little.