Longsword

Longsword

Longsword

"The ancient weapon of kings, the longsword can be used for slashing or stabbing and is deadly in the right hands."

Base Stats

Type

Equipment – Weapons

"Modern Weapons" is not in the list (Neolithic Weapons, Medieval Weapons, Industrial Weapons, Spacer Weapons, Ultra Weapons, Mechanoid Weapons) of allowed values for the "Class" property.

Weapon Class

Modern

Damage

17 dmg

Cooldown

150 ticks (2.5 secs)

DPS

6.8

Mode

Melee

The longsword is a melee weapon in RimWorld that does a large amount of damage, has a long cooldown, and deals sharp damage.

As is typical with any sharp weapon, longsword attacks cause bleeding, and generally fares poorly against armor when compared to blunt weapons.

The longsword has the highest base damage output out of any weapon in the game; having a 13.3% higher base damage output than the mace, which is the most powerful blunt weapon in the game. However, due to the longsword's long cooldown, it's not recommendable to equip a poorly-skilled person with this beast of a weapon. Plasteel longswords are extremely dangerous weapons, and can handily cut down opponents, thanks to its gladius-like cooldown and enhanced damage per hit.

When it comes to facing up against a normal armor vest, a steel longsword will still trail even a modest stone club in terms of DPS, therefore a steel club will perform significantly better. Although plasteel longswords fare somewhat better since they have such a high damage output to begin with, they still trail steel clubs in this department.

Obtaining

Longswords can be purchased from any outlander and orbital combat suppliers, or obtained from outlander and pirate raiders. Longswords can also be crafted at any smithy once the smithing research has been completed; from 120 of any metallic or wooden material, and 22,000 ticks (6.11 mins) of work.

Combat Performance per Material

Normal Quality:

Materials	Wood	Steel	Plasteel	Silver	Gold	Uranium
Damage	5	17	20	9	5	19
Cooldown	2.25s	2.5s	2s	2.5s	2.75s	3.38s
Base DPS	2.222	6.8	10	3.6	1.818	5.621
Armored DPS	1.2	3.24	4.5	1.8	0.982	2.663

Legendary Quality:

Materials	Wood	Steel	Plasteel	Silver	Gold	Uranium
Damage	8	26	32	13	8	29
Cooldown	2.25s	2.5s	2s	2.5s	2.75s	3.38s
Base DPS	3.556	10.4	16	5.2	2.909	8.58
Armored DPS	1.6	4.68	7.2	2.52	1.309	3.994

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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