Stake-thrower crossbow.
Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2016 9:27 pm
Yes, now you too can shoot things through the heart with stakes.
Tablecrafted using:
5 metal rods
1 gun stock (made from wood)
30u holy water
3 silver bars
1 null rod (or equivalent holy weapon)
It's a two-handed holy crossbow that shoots stakes at people. It's a bulky item (although it fits on your back), which carries the null rod's anti-magic abilities and requires both hands to use. You can make a stake by using a sharp object on a plank of wood; when fired from the crossbow, these do 20 brute damage, with a small chance to embed. Like the kinetic speargun, they can be recovered after use (unless they embed), and the crossbow must be reloaded manually by drawing back the string and inserting the new stake after each shot. Stakes can be dipped in liquids (like cigarettes) to transfer up to 5u of any reagent into the target. Special stakes can be created this way as well; after creating a special stake, you can dip it in a liquid again (as the original reagent was destroyed when the stake was made). Stakes are all Small items.
There are a few different types of stakes, too:
* Holy stake. Use a silver bar on a stake containing 5u holy water, and the stake becomes holy (and silver-tipped), doing 35 damage (with double to revenants, undead and constructs of the Cult of Nar'Sie).
* Depleted uranium stake. Use a uranium bar on a stake containing 5u unstable mutagen, and the stake becomes poisonous, doing the standard 20 damage, with a bonus 20 toxin damage.
* Diamond stake. Use a diamond bar on a stake containing 5u gold, and the stake becomes hardened, doing 45 damage with a guaranteed embed.
* Incendiary stake. Use a plasma bar on a stake containing 5u alcohol (any kind), and the stake becomes flammable, doing the standard 20 damage, but with an additional 5 burn damage; it also sets the target on fire.
* Healing stake. Use a roll of gauze on a stake containing 5u Doctor's Delight, and the stake becomes healing, doing no damage, but healing the target for 30 of all types of damage (brute, burn, oxygen and toxin). Healing stakes cannot embed.
* Sirloin stake. Use a slab of meat on a stake containing 5u nutriment, and the stake becomes a steak, doing no damage, but refilling the target's hunger bar to satiated. Sirloin stakes cannot embed.
When on Harm intent, and targeting the chest of someone lying down, you can attempt to hammer in the stake (taking around ten seconds); if successful, this has three times the stake's usual effect, and is a guaranteed embed (when not a healing/sirloin stake).
Additionally, a special adminspawn repeater crossbow, which can store up to eight stakes at once, and doesn't need to have its string drawn back.
Hold on, isn't this overpowered?
You can only make one of them, since they require null rods; additionally, it's clunkier than the Mosin-Nagant, requiring you to draw the string back, then use the bolt on it. See it like a double-barrelled shotgun that only has a capacity of one. It's also a bulky item, so good luck hiding it, and requires hard-to-get items from a variety of departments.
Okay, but 45 damage and a guaranteed embed for the diamond stake?
It's still not as robust as a revolver, and that requires you to have diamonds and gold, as well as wood for the stake.
What about the repeater crossbow? You can just spam 45-brute shots.
Yes, that's the point. It's adminspawn-only.
How can shooting someone with a crossbow heal them?
Ask Valve.
Isn't doing 60 damage to someone in melee combat a little powerful?
Given that they have to be on the floor for ten seconds, not really. You'd be better off just smashing their face in with a toolbox.
Tablecrafted using:
5 metal rods
1 gun stock (made from wood)
30u holy water
3 silver bars
1 null rod (or equivalent holy weapon)
It's a two-handed holy crossbow that shoots stakes at people. It's a bulky item (although it fits on your back), which carries the null rod's anti-magic abilities and requires both hands to use. You can make a stake by using a sharp object on a plank of wood; when fired from the crossbow, these do 20 brute damage, with a small chance to embed. Like the kinetic speargun, they can be recovered after use (unless they embed), and the crossbow must be reloaded manually by drawing back the string and inserting the new stake after each shot. Stakes can be dipped in liquids (like cigarettes) to transfer up to 5u of any reagent into the target. Special stakes can be created this way as well; after creating a special stake, you can dip it in a liquid again (as the original reagent was destroyed when the stake was made). Stakes are all Small items.
There are a few different types of stakes, too:
* Holy stake. Use a silver bar on a stake containing 5u holy water, and the stake becomes holy (and silver-tipped), doing 35 damage (with double to revenants, undead and constructs of the Cult of Nar'Sie).
* Depleted uranium stake. Use a uranium bar on a stake containing 5u unstable mutagen, and the stake becomes poisonous, doing the standard 20 damage, with a bonus 20 toxin damage.
* Diamond stake. Use a diamond bar on a stake containing 5u gold, and the stake becomes hardened, doing 45 damage with a guaranteed embed.
* Incendiary stake. Use a plasma bar on a stake containing 5u alcohol (any kind), and the stake becomes flammable, doing the standard 20 damage, but with an additional 5 burn damage; it also sets the target on fire.
* Healing stake. Use a roll of gauze on a stake containing 5u Doctor's Delight, and the stake becomes healing, doing no damage, but healing the target for 30 of all types of damage (brute, burn, oxygen and toxin). Healing stakes cannot embed.
* Sirloin stake. Use a slab of meat on a stake containing 5u nutriment, and the stake becomes a steak, doing no damage, but refilling the target's hunger bar to satiated. Sirloin stakes cannot embed.
When on Harm intent, and targeting the chest of someone lying down, you can attempt to hammer in the stake (taking around ten seconds); if successful, this has three times the stake's usual effect, and is a guaranteed embed (when not a healing/sirloin stake).
Additionally, a special adminspawn repeater crossbow, which can store up to eight stakes at once, and doesn't need to have its string drawn back.
Hold on, isn't this overpowered?
You can only make one of them, since they require null rods; additionally, it's clunkier than the Mosin-Nagant, requiring you to draw the string back, then use the bolt on it. See it like a double-barrelled shotgun that only has a capacity of one. It's also a bulky item, so good luck hiding it, and requires hard-to-get items from a variety of departments.
Okay, but 45 damage and a guaranteed embed for the diamond stake?
It's still not as robust as a revolver, and that requires you to have diamonds and gold, as well as wood for the stake.
What about the repeater crossbow? You can just spam 45-brute shots.
Yes, that's the point. It's adminspawn-only.
How can shooting someone with a crossbow heal them?
Ask Valve.
Isn't doing 60 damage to someone in melee combat a little powerful?
Given that they have to be on the floor for ten seconds, not really. You'd be better off just smashing their face in with a toolbox.