Cannon

Firepower for a player-built boat: heavy hits, a short fuse and loose aim. Worth mounting once your boat has rivals on the same stretch of sea.

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Characteristics

Category: Items

Stack size: 1

Durability: 100

Workbench: Level 1

Craftable: Yes

Researchable: Yes · 15 Scrap

Health: 1,000

Overview

In-game description

A heavy mountable cannon for your boat with a short fuse. Questionable accuracy but high damage.

You mount it on a boat you built at a boat building station, and a trip out to sea turns into a fight you can win. The game sums it up honestly: high damage, questionable accuracy, a short fuse. So it rewards patience at close range and wastes ammo at long range.

Pros

Cons

A Level 1 bench, two hundred metal fragments and a hundred wood, nothing rare
Researchable for fifteen scrap, so the whole group can build it all wipe
Hits hard enough to make another crew think twice

Spread you have to live with, and the fuse adds a delay to every shot
Every shot is a cannonball, and each one eats fifteen gunpowder
Made for a boat, by its own text, so it waits until you have one

The usual fight: two boats circling in a bay, both crews trying to land a broadside. Close the distance, fire when the other boat slows to turn, and keep one person reloading while another steers. Shots at a moving target from far away mostly feed the fish.

Raid cost

Explosive	Quantity	Sulfur
High Velocity Rocket cheapest	3	600
Satchel Charge	4	1,920
Beancan Grenade	16	1,920
Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo	100–112	2,500–2,800
Timed Explosive Charge	2	4,400
Rocket	4	5,600
Other ways: siege weapons, vehicles and loot
Torpedo	4	60
Homing Missile	2	200
Mortar Shell	6	1,800
Propane Explosive Bomb	4	3,600
Survey Charge	72	4,320
MLRS Rocket	3	—
40mm HE Grenade	16	—
Hammerhead Bolt	23–25	—

Direct hit, hard side, no duds. Satchel Charge is a dud 20% of the time. Beancan Grenade is a dud 15% of the time. A range runs from point blank to the far end of the bullet's falloff, fired from an Assault Rifle.