Short bow

Short bow

A simple short selfbow made from a single piece of wood.

Base Stats

Type

Equipment – Weapons

Weapon Class

Neolithic

Ranged Combat

Mode

Single-Shot

Damage

10 dmg

Warm-Up

81 ticks (1.35 secs)

Cooldown

100 ticks (1.67 secs)

Range

29 tile(s)

Accuracy

89% - 64% - 41% - 22%

Velocity

44 (m/s)

Burst Count

1 (per burst)

DPS

3.31 ()

A simple weapon dropped used by primitive raiders and also sold by combat traders. Low damage output, but has a decent range, and even out-ranges some firearms.

The short bow can be purchased for very low prices, found on enemy tribals, crafted at a crafting spot for 40 wood, or you can start with two short bows in the 'Lost Tribe' scenario. The short bow is arguably one of the worst ranged weapons in the game. It has relatively low damage, a fairly long warmup time and poor accuracy, but it has a fairly decent range. It is significantly less powerful overall than the great bow.

Because of its attributes and ease of crafting, it's a great weapon to make early-game to cover the beginning part of the game, but even a low quality pistol can outclass a Normal quality Short Bow with a much quicker warmup time and also similar or better accuracy. Therefore the short bow should be replaced with a better weapon ASAP and can quite easily be replaced too. The ideal range for use of the short bow is within 15 cells as it becomes too inaccurate for reliable use past that range, along with the standard dropoff with Shooter Accuracy.

Graphs

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

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Improvised

Beer • Elephant tusk • Thrumbo horn • Wood

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Throwables

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Mechanoid

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