Elephant tusk

Elephant tusk

An elephant's tusk. Very durable and valuable. Deadly but somewhat unwieldy as a weapon.

Base Stats

Type

Equipment – Weapons

Market Value

80 

Mass

1.8 kg

HP

150

Deterioration Rate

0.5

Melee Combat

Mode

Melee

Melee Attack 1

Point
18.2 dmg (Stab)
27% AP
2.6 seconds cooldown

Melee Attack 2 

Point
18.2 dmg (Scratch)
27% AP
2.6 seconds cooldown

Melee Attack 3 

Base
9 dmg (Blunt)
13% AP
2 seconds cooldown

Melee Average DPS

6.89

Melee Average AP

27%

An elephant tusk is ivory obtained from butchering an elephant. Tusks can be sold to exotic goods traders, or used as a melee weapon.

Elephant Tusk vs. Comparable Weapons

This section goes over how well the elephant tusk fares against comparable weapons (similar value, tech level or similar characteristics) in 1 vs. 1 combat.

Methodology

• All testing is semi-automated which allows for large sample sizes to be gathered per set of results with ease
• All pawns have a skill level of 8 in melee
• No pawns have any traits that affect combat performance
• All pawns are of 18 years of age and completely healthy

Results in the table below are the percentages of battles that elephant tusks either won or tied against the weapon listed in the first column of said table, with a sample size of 2,000 battles per result. Higher percentages are better.

The following armor categories are:

• Unarmored - Plainleather button-down shirt and plainleather pants
• Flak - Steel simple helmet, flak jacket, flak vest, plainleather button-down shirt and flak pants
• Marine - Marine helmet, marine armor, plainleather button-down shirt and plainleather pants

Other Weapon	Unarmored	Flak	Marine
Wood	82.11%	64.10%	38.25%
Thrumbo horn	29.15%	24.05%	20.45%
Longsword	39.30%	35.25%	31.63%

Version history

In Beta 19 its market price was reduced from 450 silver to 80 silver.

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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