Difference between revisions of "Club"

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The club is a neolithic melee weapon that does a moderate amount of blunt damage and has a moderate-long cooldown. As is typical with any blunt weapon, club attacks don't cause bleeding (unless a body part gets destroyed), and generally fare better against armor when compared to sharp weapons.

Like the shiv, clubs are generated without a quality level - in essence, all clubs are "normal." This makes them worth considering if you have no competent crafters yet. With underwhelming damage output, clubs only make sense as melee options in the early game; although they cost more to produce than shivs, they outperform them in terms of DPS. Once you have craftsmen capable of reliably producing better than normal quality weapons, however, there is no reason to ever build a club again. Although plasteel or jade clubs are effective weapons for use against armored foes, maces are unambiguously superior (albeit more expensive) weapons, especially if they are high quality.

Obtaining

Clubs can be purchased from any combat supplier or war merchant, or obtained from melee raiders of any faction. Clubs can also be crafted at a crafting spot, fueled smithy, or electric smithy without any research required; from 40 of any metallic, wooden, or stony material and 500 ticks (8.33 secs) of work.

Possible Attacks

Tool	Attack	Damage Type	Power	Cooldown	Likelihood^[1]	Base DPS^[2]	Armored DPS^[3]
Overall	-	-	11.966	2.15s	-	5.566	5.12
Handle	Poke	Blunt	8	2.15s	36%	3.721	3.423
Head	Smash	Blunt	14.2	2.15s	64%	6.605	6.076

↑ Weighted based on the amount of damage that the tool does.
↑ Damage Per Second.
↑ Against a normal quality armor vest (50% sharp damage reduction and 10% deflection chance; 20% blunt damage reduction), including coverage.

History

Prior to Beta 18, clubs were generated with a quality value.

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

[1] Weighted based on the amount of damage that the tool does.

[2] Damage Per Second.

[3] Against a normal quality armor vest (50% sharp damage reduction and 10% deflection chance; 20% blunt damage reduction), including coverage.

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-The club is a neolithic melee weapon in RimWorld that does a moderate amount of damage, has a moderate-long cooldown, and deals blunt damage.
+The '''club''' is a neolithic melee weapon that does a moderate amount of blunt damage and has a moderate-long cooldown. As is typical with any blunt weapon, club attacks don't cause bleeding (unless a body part gets destroyed), and generally fare better against armor when compared to sharp weapons.
-As is typical with any blunt weapon, club attacks don't cause bleeding (unless a body part gets destroyed), and generally fares better against armor when compared to sharp weapons. Compared to its 'descendant', the [[mace]], the club is cheaper to produce, but has a longer cooldown period which puts it at a disadvantage, and don't have a quality value.
+Like the [[shiv]], clubs are generated without a quality level - in essence, all clubs are "normal." This makes them worth considering if you have no competent crafters yet. With underwhelming damage output, clubs only make sense as melee options in the early game; although they cost more to produce than shivs, they outperform them in terms of DPS. Once you have craftsmen capable of reliably producing better than normal quality weapons, however, there is no reason to ever build a club again. Although [[plasteel]] or [[jade]] clubs are effective weapons for use against armored foes, [[mace]]s are unambiguously superior (albeit more expensive) weapons, especially if they are high quality.
-Underwhelming in terms of damage output, the club is generally only a feasible melee option in the early-game. However, even this is debatable as the shiv is significantly cheaper, but also has a somewhat lower damage output, and does sharp damage. The latter shouldn't make a significant difference as armored enemies would probably be few and far-between at the stage you'd be considering producing clubs.
-The club somewhat redeems itself against armored targets; the [[steel]] club is a dark horse in the respect that it actually edges out even the infamous [[plasteel]] [[longsword]] in terms of damage output - albeit only by a 3.4% margin.
-Interestingly, [[jade]] clubs actually have a slightly superior (1.27% higher) damage output when compared to plasteel maces, but the latter can still pull ahead due to how the game handles armor rating, the plasteel mace's superior cooldown, and if the mace has a better than Normal quality.
-Since Beta 18, it has lost its quality value, like the [[shiv]], meaning that all clubs made from the material are the same regardless of your craftsman's skill. This is useful in early-game when you haven't trained up any good craftsmen, but becomes more of a drawback later on.
 ===Obtaining===
-Clubs can be purchased from any combat supplier or war merchant, or obtained from any melee [[raider]]s. Maces can also be crafted at [[crafting spot]], or [[fueled smithy|any]] [[electric smithy|smithy]] without any research required; from 40 of any metallic, wooden, or stony [[materials|material]], and {{ticks|500}} of work.
+Clubs can be purchased from any combat supplier or war merchant, or obtained from melee [[raider]]s of any faction. Clubs can also be crafted at a [[crafting spot]], [[fueled smithy]], or [[electric smithy]] without any research required; from 40 of any metallic, wooden, or stony [[materials|material]] and {{ticks|500}} of work.
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+==History==
+Prior to Beta 18, clubs were generated with a quality value.
-<references/>

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