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The bolt-action rifle is a moderately heavy, single-shot firearm in RimWorld which deals a slightly higher amount of damage per shot; slightly longer time between shots; long range and very high accuracy.

Combat Performance

It'll take 3 shots to the torso to kill an unarmored human with a bolt-action rifle, or around 5 shots against a human with a normal armor vest. The bolt-action rifle can also instantly remove digits, cripple eyeballs and cause lethal brain damage if the victim's skull is unprotected. Limbs can be crippled in 2 shots against an unarmored human. Without factoring in any cover or shooter's accuracy, the bolt-action rifle has an average time to down of around 12.4 seconds against unarmored people or 17.3 seconds against a person with an armor vest.

Since the bolt-action rifle has a long range, a fairly long time between shots and should be used at a minimum of 12 cells to make the most out of it, the bolt-action rifle is a fairly skill-heavy weapon. A healthy level 9 traitless shooter, level 5 careful shooter or level 11 trigger-happy can somewhat efficiently use the bolt-action rifle up to 26 cells. However, a level 15 traitless shooter, 12 careful shooter or level 16 trigger-happy is advisable to efficiently use the bolt-action rifle up to its maximum range of 37 cells.

On average, the bolt-action rifle is best paired with a careful shooter up to level 11, then with a trigger-happy shooter beyond that point.

Melee Combat

A bolt-action rifle has a weapon bulk of 100%, but weapon bulk doesn't seem to have any observable effect on actual gameplay.

All possible melee attacks with a bolt-action rifle:

Tool	Attack	Damage Type	Power	Cooldown	Likelihood	Base DPS	Armored DPS
Overall	-	-	9.69	1.869s	-	5.181	4.767
Stock	Smash	Blunt	9	1.8s	31%	5	4.6
Barrel	Smash	Blunt	10	1.9s	34.5%	5.263	4.842
Barrel	Poke	Blunt	10	1.9s	34.5%	5.263	4.842

Obtaining

Bolt-action rifles can be purchased from outlander and orbital combat suppliers, or obtained from the following raider kinds:

Pirates:

Scavenger - 24.1% chance (poor quality on average, 20-90% health)
Pirate - 12.7% chance (normal quality on average, 40-150% health)

Outlanders:

Town Guard - 12.3% chance (poor quality on average, 20-200% health)

Mercenaries:

Mercenary Gunner - 14.3% chance (normal quality on average, 70-230% health)

Spacers:

Space Soldier - 11.7% chance (good quality on average, 100% health)

Bolt-action rifles can also be crafted at a machining table once the gunsmithing research has been completed; from 60 steel, 3 components and 25,000 ticks (6.94 mins) of work.

A bolt-action rifle is also one of the three starting weapons in the standard crashlanded scenario, along with a plasteel knife and a revolver.

Conclusion and Comparison

The bolt-action rifle is the most accurate standard weapon in the game, being able to hit 100% accuracy across the board by masterwork quality. Compared to the sniper rifle, the bolt-action rifle has roughly half the time between shots but also slightly less than half the damage as well as an 18% deficit in range - both weapons are heavily weighted on the warmup though, meaning that their damage output sees a significant increase when paired with a trigger-happy shooter. The bolt-action rifle also has a longer time between shots than the greatbow, meaning that the latter has a higher damage output potential (realized at higher quality levels) while also being significantly cheaper and only seeing a 14% range deficit - though the bolt-action rifle has superior accuracy at longer distances.

In head-on 1 vs. 1 fights between healthy level 8 shooters using granite chunks as cover from 35 cells away, the bolt-action rifle is 59% better than the sniper rifle, extending to a straight doubling of effectiveness once normal armor vests and simple helmets are factored in. Against the greatbow at 27 cells, the bolt-action rifle performs 43.9% better, extending to 97% with armor - the shorter the distance, the closer the gap with things eventually going in the greatbow's favor.

When tested in a small hilled temperate forest in the hands of six lightly-armored baseline level 8 shooters against nine decently-equipped and equally skilled pirate raiders, the bolt-action rifle puts up a decent performance, despite being substantially bottlenecked by the shooters for the majority of the time. Naturally the bolt-action rifle is best used as a support weapon due to its lack of burst fire, so the test conditions here could be considered a worse case scenario for the weapon since it's pushed completely to the forefront.

In conclusion, the bolt-action rifle is essentially as good as your best available shooters are when at normal quality; it's almost 100% accurate and will therefore impose very minimal hindrance for even really skilled shooters. If you're looking for something that has a decent range and can throw some punches, the bolt-action rifle serves that purpose quite well in the early game, although the assault rifle becomes a much more effective fulfillment of that role once you start encountering mercenary raiders and research precision rifling. Unless extra range really matters for your playstyle, the bolt-action rifle is usually going to be a more reliable weapon than the sniper rifle.

Graphs

The below graphs assume an unmodified shooter using a Normal quality weapon.

Weapons

Melee | Neolithic: Breach axe • Club • Ikwa • Knife (Jade) • Spear

Medieval: Gladius • Longsword • Mace • Axe • Warhammer

Ultra: Eltex staff • Monosword (Persona) • Plasmasword (Persona) • Zeushammer (Persona)

Improvised: Beer • Elephant tusk • Thrumbo horn • Wood

Ranged | Neolithic: Greatbow • Pila • Recurve bow • Short bow • Flamebow

Industrial: Assault rifle • Autopistol • Bolt-action rifle • Chain shotgun • Heavy SMG • Launcher (EMP, Incendiary, Smoke, Toxbomb ) • LMG • Machine pistol • Minigun • Pump shotgun • Revolver • Sniper rifle

Spacer: Charge lance • Charge rifle

Consumables: Doomsday rocket launcher • Triple rocket launcher

Throwables: EMP grenades • Frag grenades • Molotov cocktails • Tox grenades

Mechanoid: Heavy charge blaster • Inferno cannon • Needle gun • Thump cannon • Beam graser • Charge blaster turret • Hellsphere cannon • Mini-flameblaster • Mini-shotgun • Slugthrower • Spiner • Toxic needle gun

Structures: Autocannon • Mini-turret gun • Mortar (Weapon) • Uranium slug cannon • Auto-mortar • Inferno cannon (Turret) • Light charge blaster • Mini-slugger • Tactical turret gun

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 |name = Bolt-action rifle
 |image = SurvivalRifle.png|Bolt-action rifle
-|description = "Ancient bolt-action rifle. Good range, good power, low rate of fire."
+|description = "Ancient pattern bolt-action rifle. Good range, good power, low rate of fire."
 |type = Equipment
 |type2 = Weapons
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 |range = 37
 |warmup = 114
-|cooldown = 75.333
+|cooldown = 75
 |accuracyTouch = 75
 |accuracyShort = 96
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 |burst = 1
 |DPS = DPS
-|sell = {{icon|silver|250}}
+|sell = {{icon|silver|265}}
 |buy = {{icon|steel|60}} + {{icon|component|3}}
 |mass base = 3.5
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 </onlyinclude>
-The '''bolt-action rifle''' has considerably long range, high accuracy, moderate damage, and a somewhat long overall cooldown period. You'll ideally want to equip somebody with at least 97% post-processed shooting accuracy to be somewhat efficient with the bolt-action rifle at maximum range - one way of achieving this is with a healthy colonist with at least 10 shooting skill. Do note that bolt-action rifles can outrange automated gun turrets.
+{{info|The bolt-action rifle is a moderately heavy, single-shot firearm in RimWorld which deals a slightly higher amount of damage per shot; slightly longer time between shots; long range and very high accuracy.}}
+===Combat Performance===
+It'll take 3 shots to the torso to kill an unarmored human with a bolt-action rifle, or around 5 shots against a human with a normal [[armor vest]]. The bolt-action rifle can also instantly remove digits, cripple eyeballs and cause lethal brain damage if the victim's skull is unprotected. Limbs can be crippled in 2 shots against an unarmored human. Without factoring in any cover or shooter's accuracy, the bolt-action rifle has an average time to down of around 12.4 seconds against unarmored people or 17.3 seconds against a person with an armor vest.
-Bolt-action rifles can be purchased from outlander or orbital combat suppliers, found equipped by outlander and pirate [[raider]]s, or manufactured. You'll also start with one survival rifle with the 'Crashlanded' scenario.
+Since the bolt-action rifle has a long range, a fairly long time between shots and should be used at a minimum of 12 cells to make the most out of it, the bolt-action rifle is a fairly skill-heavy weapon. A healthy level 9 traitless shooter, level 5 careful shooter or level 11 trigger-happy can somewhat efficiently use the bolt-action rifle up to 26 cells. However, a level 15 traitless shooter, 12 careful shooter or level 16 trigger-happy is advisable to efficiently use the bolt-action rifle up to its maximum range of 37 cells.
+On average, the bolt-action rifle is best paired with a careful shooter up to level 11, then with a trigger-happy shooter beyond that point.
+====Melee Combat====
+A bolt-action rifle has a weapon bulk of 100%, but weapon bulk doesn't seem to have any observable effect on actual gameplay.
+All possible melee attacks with a bolt-action rifle:
+{| {{STDT| c_12 text-center}}
+!Tool
+!Attack
+!Damage Type
+!Power
+!Cooldown
+!Likelihood
+!Base DPS
+!Armored DPS
+|-
+!Overall
+!-
+!-
+!9.69
+!1.869s
+!-
+!5.181
+!4.767
+|- newline
+|Stock
+|Smash
+|Blunt
+|9
+|1.8s
+|31%
+|5
+|4.6
+|- newline
+|Barrel
+|Smash
+|Blunt
+|10
+|1.9s
+|34.5%
+|5.263
+|4.842
+|- newline
+|Barrel
+|Poke
+|Blunt
+|10
+|1.9s
+|34.5%
+|5.263
+|4.842
+|}
 ===Obtaining===
-Bolt-action rifles can be purchased from outlander combat suppliers or towns, or from an orbital weapons trader - or taken from incapacitated [[raider#Mercenaries|mercenaries]], [[raider#Outlanders|outlanders]], and [[raider#Pirates|pirates]]. Bolt-action rifles can also be manufactured at a [[machining table]] once the [[research#Machining|machining]] research has been completed; from 60 [[steel]], 3 [[component]]s, and 25000 ticks (417 secs) of work.
+Bolt-action rifles can be purchased from outlander and orbital combat suppliers, or obtained from the following [[raider#Humanlike|raider]] kinds:
+'''Pirates:'''
+* Scavenger - 24.1% chance (poor [[quality]] on average, 20-90% health)
+* Pirate - 12.7% chance (normal quality on average, 40-150% health)
+'''Outlanders:'''
+* Town Guard - 12.3% chance (poor quality on average, 20-200% health)
+'''Mercenaries:'''
+* Mercenary Gunner - 14.3% chance (normal quality on average, 70-230% health)
+'''Spacers:'''
+* Space Soldier - 11.7% chance (good quality on average, 100% health)
+Bolt-action rifles can also be crafted at a [[machining table]] once the [[Research#Gunsmithing|gunsmithing]] research has been completed; from 60 [[steel]], 3 [[component]]s and {{Ticks|25000}} of work.
-A bolt-action rifle is also one of the three starting weapons from the [[Scenario system#Crashlanded|crashlanded scenario]], alongside a [[pistol]] and a [[plasteel]] [[knife]].
+A bolt-action rifle is also one of the three starting weapons in the standard crashlanded [[scenario system|scenario]], along with a [[plasteel]] [[knife]] and a [[revolver]].
 ===Conclusion and Comparison===
-The bolt-action rifle can be seen as a rapid-fire, more skill-friendly alternative to the overall more powerful [[sniper rifle]]. Due to its attributes, the survival rifle remains a useful weapon throughout all stages of the game, and works nicely when a few bolt-action rifle shooters are mixed amongst many [[charge rifle]] shooters.
+The bolt-action rifle is the most accurate standard weapon in the game, being able to hit 100% accuracy across the board by masterwork quality. Compared to the [[sniper rifle]], the bolt-action rifle has roughly half the time between shots but also slightly less than half the damage as well as an 18% deficit in range - both weapons are heavily weighted on the warmup though, meaning that their damage output sees a significant increase when paired with a trigger-happy shooter. The bolt-action rifle also has a longer time between shots than the [[greatbow]], meaning that the latter has a higher damage output potential (realized at higher quality levels) while also being significantly cheaper and only seeing a 14% range deficit - though the bolt-action rifle has superior accuracy at longer distances.
+In head-on 1 vs. 1 fights between healthy level 8 shooters using granite chunks as cover from 35 cells away, the bolt-action rifle is 59% better than the sniper rifle, extending to a straight doubling of effectiveness once normal armor vests and [[simple helmet]]s are factored in. Against the greatbow at 27 cells, the bolt-action rifle performs 43.9% better, extending to 97% with armor - the shorter the distance, the closer the gap with things eventually going in the greatbow's favor.
+When tested in a small hilled temperate forest in the hands of six lightly-armored baseline level 8 shooters against nine decently-equipped and equally skilled pirate raiders, the bolt-action rifle puts up a decent performance, despite being substantially bottlenecked by the shooters for the majority of the time. Naturally the bolt-action rifle is best used as a support weapon due to its lack of burst fire, so the test conditions here could be considered a worse case scenario for the weapon since it's pushed completely to the forefront.
-It fares much better at close range than the sniper rifle. Sniper rifles are very inaccurate at close range, while bolt-action rifles fare much better.
+In conclusion, the bolt-action rifle is essentially as good as your best available shooters are when at normal quality; it's almost 100% accurate and will therefore impose very minimal hindrance for even really skilled shooters. If you're looking for something that has a decent range and can throw some punches, the bolt-action rifle serves that purpose quite well in the early game, although the [[assault rifle]] becomes a much more effective fulfillment of that role once you start encountering mercenary raiders and research [[research#PrecisionRifling|precision rifling]]. Unless extra range really matters for your playstyle, the bolt-action rifle is usually going to be a more reliable weapon than the sniper rifle.
-==Trivia==
-*Its name before Alpha 17 was the Survival rifle.
-*In even older version of RimWorld, it used to be called the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%E2%80%93Enfield Lee-Enfield]. In real life, the Lee-Enfield is a reliable and powerful bolt-action, magazine-fed, repeating rifle that was used primarily by the British military in the early 20th century, notably during World War I and II. The Lee-Enfield had a 10-round magazine (loaded with 5-round "charger clips") and used a .303 caliber (7.7mm) cartridge.
-*Bolt-action rifles with Masterwork or above quality are capable of producing 100% accuracy across all ranges. It's the only standard weapon capable of such a feat in-game.
 ==Graphs==