> Composite bow and special arrows: these are a military grade object, these carry the furthest and hit hard with a large amount of chance to embed, it also comes with a scope to make use of its range. Is a good candidate for nukeops, specalised ERT, distant ruin loot or traitors.
> Bone bow (not a wooden one, that exists as a space loot variant): a craftable weaker variant, that is heavy on bones & sinew but even to miners its a useful tool because of its specialist bone arrow types that can be effective against mobs.
Headless bone arrows, made out of bones, these bone arrows are crude by themselves and require to be tipped with metal ore to gain sharpness
Default headless metal arrows which hit for more impact force, made out of crafting rods & wire together, without the bow they are kind of worthless.
Arrow heads
- Bows can fire whichever type of arrow indiscriminately, but the arrows themselves have specific crafting limitations and requirements, because bone arrows are much more robust and bulkier they have more versatility in what you can attach, but will deflect off some mundane armors and not penetrate (or do less damage). Metal arrows are more refined but there are no easily accessible ways to get a bow to use it without first using a mediocre bone bow.
Bone arrows take
- Chunks of Iron ore to complete a regular bone arrow
- Silver ore makes a much more forceful arrows
- Gold ore travels further
- Uranium ore will poison the target with radiation if it embeds (low chance)
- Plasma ore will poison the target with plasma toxin if it embeds (low chance)
- Titanium is midway between strength and embedding, but weaker than diamond.
- Diamond ore has a high chance to embed and slightly more damage (if you killed a lot of watchers to make the bow you will have a healthy supply) because diamond ore is kind of grainy it requires three diamond ore per 1 arrow
- Wheras
Some inventive uses of this bow & arrow i would suggest beside from just being another ranged projectile weapon type would be to have a specific ruin puzzle that requires you to hit targets in a sequence at range without the use of a KA because of nessecary force. Enough use of silver arrows could kill a Goliath.Metal arrows (disregarding specialised types)
- Can be crafted into metal headed arrows with autolathe
- Glass shard arrows do less damage but have higher chance to embed
- Using a battery & igniter will also allow you to make shock arrows
- Comical boxing glove on a arrow that ministuns and stamina damages people