Incapacitate Dart

A blow pipe dart that slows the target and blurs their sight. Open with it, then finish a player who can't run or see you properly.

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Characteristics

Category: Ammunition

Stack size: 64

Workbench: Level 1

Craftable: Yes

Researchable: Yes · 30 Scrap

Damage: 15

Bullet speed: 55 m/s

Overview

In-game description

A dart that slows your target and blocks their vision briefly.

Use incapacitate darts to start a fight, not to end it. A hit slows your target and briefly blocks their vision, which buys you the moment to swap to a real weapon, close in with a spear, or get away from someone who was faster than you.

They fire from the blow pipe, a quiet weapon, so the classic play is opening on a player who hasn't spotted you yet. Tag them, then finish with wood darts or whatever is on your hotbar while they stumble around half blind.

The catch is snake venom. You get it by skinning snakes in the jungle, and ready darts turn up in jungle crates, so your supply depends on time spent there. Don't spend them on animals, or on a player who is already in your face. Against someone who sits still in one spot, a radiation dart is the better pick, because its effect stacks.