Crossbow

One heavy, accurate arrow and then a long reload. The early-wipe opener for players who aim well and keep something quick in the next slot to finish.

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Characteristics

Category: Weapon

Stack size: 1

Durability: 100

Workbench: Level 1

Craftable: Yes

Researchable: Yes · 10 Scrap

Damage: 60

Fire rate: 60 shots/min

Magazine: 1

Reload: 3.6 s

Overview

In-game description

A very accurate ranged weapon.

Day one of the wipe, a guy in hide clothes is hitting stone at the edge of a field. A crossbow lets you put a heavy, accurate arrow into him before he knows where it came from, which a bow at that range rarely manages. Then comes the slow reload, and that is where most new players lose the fight. Keep a revolver or anything quick in the next slot and finish with that.

It loads the same arrows as the bows. Wooden arrows are the everyday choice, and fire arrows add burning on top.

Watch out

Despite the name, Hammerhead, Piercer and the other bolts are not crossbow ammo. Their own descriptions say they are made for the ballista, so do not spend Level 2 resources crafting them for this gun.

Once you have gears to spare, the mini crossbow gives you more than one shot before a reload. The full-size crossbow stays the pick when the first hit has to count.