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Orange Boomer

An orange starburst for nights when gun powder has nothing left to protect, like the last hour before a forced wipe. No bench, 30 powder a shell.

Characteristics

Category
Fun
Stack size
20
Durability
100
Craftable
No
Researchable
No
Health
100

Overview

In-game description
A very large mortar type firework with an orange starburst

The last hour before a forced wipe changes the maths. Your base, your boxes and every bullet in them are gone when the timer runs out anyway, so the 30 gun powder in an orange shell stops being a waste. Plenty of servers count down together in chat while the sky over the map fills with colour.

The rest of the bill is low grade fuel and metal fragments, with no bench. Its blueprint is tied to owning the item on Steam, so if it is yours you can craft a whole row straight from your inventory, even with the base half rubble by then.

Any other night, think twice. Recycling a shell gives back only about half the powder. And if the stash is still huge with minutes to go, the Champagne Boomer burns through even more of it.

Raid cost

Explosive Quantity Sulfur
Explosive 5.56 Rifle Ammo cheapest 8–9 200–250
Beancan Grenade 2 240
High Velocity Rocket 2 400
Satchel Charge 1 480
Rocket 1 1,400
Timed Explosive Charge 1 2,200
Other ways: siege weapons, vehicles and loot
Torpedo 4 60
Survey Charge 6 360
Mortar Shell 1 600
Homing Missile 6 600
Propane Explosive Bomb 1 900
MLRS Rocket 1 —
40mm HE Grenade 2 —
Hammerhead Bolt 3 —

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

Recycling

Recycler

At power grid stage 2 a green recycler works at 60% instead of 50%. Yields depend on the recycler.