Blow Pipe

A quiet tube for darts, and the dart decides the job: damage, a spread, radiation or a slow. Good for ambushes and team plays, poor in a straight duel.

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Characteristics

Category: Weapon

Stack size: 1

Durability: 100

Workbench: Level 1

Craftable: Yes

Researchable: Yes · 30 Scrap

Damage: 50

Fire rate: 38 shots/min

Magazine: 1

Reload: 3 s

Overview

In-game description

A blown weapon that fires darts with different effects.

Pick it up when you want to mess with someone rather than out-trade them. The pipe itself does little; the dart you load decides what happens. A wood dart is plain damage and costs almost nothing. A scatter dart throws several small darts at once, which helps against people who hop around. A radiation dart stacks radiation on whoever you keep hitting.

The one players talk about is the incapacitate dart. It slows the target and blocks their vision for a moment, exactly the window a teammate with a shotgun or a spear needs. Picture a duo roam: you tag the guy sprinting for his door, he stumbles on half-blind, and your friend is already on him. Crafting that dart takes snake venom, so build a small supply before you count on it.

The catch sits in the recipe. You need a metal pipe, and pipes are a Level 3 craft, so early in a wipe they come from loot. If you are still short of pipes for a revolver, do not spend one on a blow pipe.