Scatter Dart

The blow pipe's shotgun shell: several small darts in a spread. Good in bushes and doorways, wasted on anything past a few metres.

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Characteristics

Category: Ammunition

Stack size: 64

Workbench: Level 1

Craftable: Yes

Researchable: Yes · 30 Scrap

Damage: 12 × 5

Bullet speed: 55 m/s

Overview

In-game description

A spread shot dart that fires multiple smaller darts.

Load these when the fight is going to happen inside a bush. One shot throws several small darts in a spread, so a twitchy flick that would miss with a single dart still lands something.

Say you are farming in the jungle and someone jumps out of the foliage two metres away. A blow pipe with a wood dart needs a clean hit; scatter darts forgive the panic. Inside a hut or a narrow base corridor it works the same way.

Past a few metres the spread does the opposite and most of the darts fly past. Don't try to snipe with it, and don't expect much against someone in real armour.

They come from stones and a bit of wood, so they are cheap to keep around. A nasty combo is an incapacitate dart first to slow the target, then scatter while they can't get away.