Mace

Mace

"A refined club, engineered for efficient swinging and deadly impacts."

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

12 dmg (Blunt)

Cooldown

120 ticks (2 secs)

DPS

6

Mode

Melee

The mace is a melee weapon in RimWorld that does a moderate amount of damage, has a moderate cooldown, and deals blunt damage.

As is typical with any blunt weapon, mace 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 neolithic 'ancestor', the club, the mace is somewhat more expensive to produce and has a slightly shorter cooldown period.

Although generally unimpressive as far as baseline damage output goes, a steel mace can actually hold its own against the almighty plasteel longsword against armored targets, with the former having an 11% higher damage output than the latter. However, the plasteel longsword still eclipses the steel mace against unarmored targets with a staggering 67% lead.

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 quality.

Since Beta 18, it has a massive advantage over the club in its ability to have qualities higher than Normal, boosting its damage output compared to it.

Obtaining

Maces can be purchased from outlander and orbital combat suppliers, or obtained from outlander and pirate raiders. Maces can also be crafted at any smithy once the smithing research has been completed; from 50 of any metallic or wooden material, and 10,000 ticks (2.78 mins) of work.

Combat Performance per Material

Normal Quality:

Materials	Wood	Steel	Plasteel	Silver	Gold	Uranium
Damage	10	12	12	13	14	17
Cooldown	1.8s	2s	1.6s	2s	2.2s	2.7s
Base DPS	5.556	6	7.5	6.5	6.364	6.296
Armored DPS	4.444	5	6.25	5	5	5.185

Legendary Quality:

Materials	Wood	Steel	Plasteel	Silver	Gold	Uranium
Damage	15	19	19	20	21	26
Cooldown	1.8s	2s	1.6s	2s	2.2s	2.7s
Base DPS	8.333	9.5	11.875	10	9.545	9.63
Armored DPS	6.667	7.5	9.375	8	7.727	7.778

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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