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|class = Neolithic
 
|class = Neolithic
 
|damage = 11
 
|damage = 11
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|range = 29
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|armorPenetration = 16
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|accuracyTouch = 89
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|range = 22.9
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|accuracyShort = 64
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|accuracyTouch = 75
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|accuracyMedium = 41
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|accuracyShort = 65
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|accuracyLong = 22
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|accuracyMedium = 45
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|accuracyLong = 25
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|accuracyAvg = 64.8
 
|mode = Single-Shot
 
|mode = Single-Shot
 
|warmup = 81
 
|warmup = 81
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|cooldown = 100
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|cooldown = 99
 
|burst = 1
 
|burst = 1
 
|DPS = DPS
 
|DPS = DPS
 
|velocity = 44
 
|velocity = 44
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|buy = {{icon|wood|30}}
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|resources to make = {{icon|wood|30}}
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|sell = {{icon|silver|69}}
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|marketvalue = 45
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|mass base = 1.2
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|mass base = 0.8
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|stoppingPower = 0.5
 
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{{info|The Short bow is a light, single-shot ranged weapon in RimWorld which deals a moderate amount of damage per shot; slightly longer time between shots; slightly longer range and moderate accuracy.}}
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{{info|The short bow is a very light, single-shot ranged weapon in RimWorld which deals a moderate amount of damage per shot; slightly longer time between shots; slightly shorter range and moderate accuracy.}}
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==Overview==
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The short bow is a low-tier neolithic weapon, and also the easiest ranged weapon to acquire in the game thanks to its extremely low resource requirement, lack of a requirement for proper facilities and a complete lack of research requirements. With scenarios such as naked brutality, a short bow is essential to earlygame survival as a safe means of hunting and basic defense against hostile wildlife and raiders. Curiously, short bows also have a slightly higher armor penetration rating than the much more powerful [[greatbow]].
  
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=== Combat performance ===
 
  
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It takes 4 shots to the torso to kill an unarmored human with a short bow, or around 7-8 shots against a human with a normal armor vest. The short bow can also instantly cripple digits and eyeballs, and cause lethal brain damage if the victim's skull is unprotected. Limbs can be crippled in 3 shots against an unarmored human.
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However, short bows are also the only neolithic ranged weapons that can't stagger [[human]]s, which puts them at a disadvantage against melee units. The short bow also has the 3rd lowest damage output out of all ranged weapons in the game, only beating the [[pila]] and [[incendiary launcher]] - the latter being a support weapon rather than straight-up aggro. Other weaknesses include low accuracy for a neolithic weapon (especially at medium range), as well as a rather slow projectile velocity. Naturally, a short bow will be significantly overshadowed in terms of combat performance by even the most basic of firearms such as [[autopistol]]s and [[revolver]]s, with two short bows being required to match a single one of the aforementioned firearms.
  
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The short bow, being a weak weapon, is best used in the hands of your worst shooters with short bows so that your good shooters have decent weapons for decent damage output, while the archers may occasionally get a hit in. <br>
 
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However, if you are lacking on better alternatives, since the short bow has a slightly longer than typical time between shots, is single-shot in nature and has a moderate-long range, it's best to pair the short bow with a competent shooter to make the most of it - not that it's worth pairing anything more than a mediocre shooter with such an underpowered weapon beyond the early game. A healthy level 7 traitless shooter, level 3 careful shooter or level 10 trigger-happy can somewhat efficiently use the short bow up to 20 cells. However, a level 12 traitless shooter, level 9 careful shooter or level 15 trigger-happy shooter is advisable to efficiently use the short bow up to its maximum range of 29 cells.
 
  
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The short bow is best-suited for close-quarters engagements overall since it's most accurate up to short ranges, and because of its sub-par projectile velocity. It's also a somewhat viable hunting weapon for smaller and lower-risk game.
  
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On average, the short bow is best paired with a careful shooter until level 10, and with a trigger-happy shooter beyond that point.
 
  
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Against an unarmored human, a short bow can kill with 4 hits to the torso, 3 hits to the head or neck, or 1 hit to the brain; cripple or destroy limbs in 3 hits; and cripple or destroy eyes and digits with a single hit. It'll generally take around 6 hits (~27.8 seconds average) to incapacitate that human from pain shock.
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Overall, the short bow is best paired with a careful shooter until level 9, and with a trigger-happy shooter beyond that point.
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====Melee Combat====
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{| {{STDT| c_12 text-center}}
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!Tool
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!Attack
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!Damage Type
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!Power
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!AP
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!Cooldown
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!Likelihood
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!Base DPS
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|-
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!Overall
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!-
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!-
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!9
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!13%
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!2.00s
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!-
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!4.50
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|- newline
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|Limb
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|Blunt
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|Blunt
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|9
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|13%
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|2.00s
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|50.00%
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|4.50
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|- newline
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|Limb
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|Poke
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|Blunt
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|9
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|13%
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|2.00s
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|50.00%
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|4.50
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|}
  
 
===Obtaining===
 
===Obtaining===
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Short bows can be purchased from neolithic war merchants and orbital combat suppliers, or obtained from the following [[raider#Humanlike|raider]] kinds:
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Short bows can be purchased from neolithic war merchants and orbital combat suppliers, tribal and outlander settlements, or obtained from the following [[raider#Humanlike|raider]] kinds:
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{| class="wikitable sortable"
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|-
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! Raider Kind !! Chance !! Average Quality !! Health
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|-
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| Archer || 92.27% || Poor || 50-180%
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|}
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Short bows can also be manufactured at [[fueled smithy|any]] [[electric smithy|smithy]] or a [[crafting spot]] with no research required; from 30 [[wood]] and {{ticks|2400}} of work. A crafting skill of at least 2 is required.
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You also start with two short bows with the lost tribe [[scenario system|scenario]], along with some [[pila]], a [[wood]]en [[club]], a [[steel]] [[ikwa]] and a [[jade]] [[knife]] ([[jade knife|main article]]).
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==Short Bow vs. Comparable Weapons==
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This section goes over how well the short bow fares against comparable weapons (similar value, tech level or similar characteristics) in 1 vs. 1 combat.
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=== Methodology ===
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* All testing is semi-automated which allows for large sample sizes to be gathered per set of results with ease
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* All pawns have a skill level of 8 in shooting
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* No pawns have any traits that affect combat performance
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* All pawns are of 18 years of age and completely healthy
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* Pawns are divided by walls to prevent stray shots from skewing results in any way
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* Weather conditions are kept clear and no cover is used</div>
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Results in the tables below are the percentages of battles that short bows either won or tied against the weapon listed in the first column of said tables, with a sample size of 2,000 battles per result. Higher percentages are better.
  
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'''Tribal:'''
 
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* Archer - 100% (normal [[quality]] on average, 50-180% health)
 
  
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====Unarmored====
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For the unarmored testing, all pawns wore normal quality [[plainleather]] [[pants]] and plainleather [[button-down shirt]]s.
  
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Short bows can also be manufactured at [[fueled smithy|a]] [[electric smithy|smithy]] or [[crafting spot]] with no research required; from 30 [[wood]] and {{ticks|9000}} of work.
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center"
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! Short bow vs. !! 3 !! 7 !! 12 !! 18 !! 25 !! 32 !! 40
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|-
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! Recurve bow
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| style="background: #FFCD7B" | 38.85% || style="background: #FFCD7B" | 31.25% || style="background: #FF9B72" | 25.70% || style="background: #FF9B72" | 22.75% || - || - || -
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|-
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! Pila
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| style="background: #69FF69" | 82.20% || style="background: #9BFF72" | 77.60% || style="background: #CDFF7B" | 66.05% || style="background: #CDFF7B" | 64.50% || - || - || -
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|-
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|}
  
  
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===Conclusion & Comparison===
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====Flak Armor====
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As mentioned several times in the main section of this page and will be plainly stated here: the short bow is the least powerful weapon in the game. However, it'll do in a pinch in very early-game scenarios where you have more shooters than there are ranged weapons to go around. If you're playing with the 'Lost Tribe' scenario or have researched '[[research#RecurveBow|recurve bow]]', then a [[recurve bow]] is going to deliver so much more combat performance than the short bow for only 10 more wood.
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For the flak armor testing, all pawns wore normal quality [[steel]] [[simple helmet]]s, [[flak jacket]]s, [[flak vest]]s, plainleather button-down shirts and [[flak pants]].
  
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center"
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! Short bow vs. !! 3 !! 7 !! 12 !! 18 !! 25 !! 32 !! 40
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|-
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! Recurve bow
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| style="background: #FFCD7B" | 36.60% || style="background: #FFCD7B" | 31.75% || style="background: #FF6969" | 20.75% || style="background: #FF9B72" | 22.80% || - || - || -
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|-
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! Pila
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| style="background: #69FF69" | 90.15% || style="background: #69FF69" | 84.80% || style="background: #9BFF72" | 74.65% || style="background: #9BFF72" | 72.60% || - || - || -
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|-
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|}
  
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The only other possible strength that the short bow has is a fairly decent range of 29 cells, but its accuracy drops off very quickly so it won't be very effective beyond 24 cells.
 
  
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====Marine Armor====
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For the marine armor testing, all pawns wore normal quality [[marine helmet]]s, [[marine armor]], plainleather button-down shirts and plainleather pants.
  
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Compared to low-tier modern firearms, a normal quality short bow is comparable to an awful quality [[revolver]] with 40% health, or an awful [[autopistol]] with 30% health; the short bow may have vastly superior accuracy, but the firearms' significantly shorter time between shots more than compensate for said accuracy deficit. Even a legendary quality short bow is going to be consistently outperformed by said firearms at shoddy quality and in mint condition.
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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: center"
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! Short bow vs. !! 3 !! 7 !! 12 !! 18 !! 25 !! 32 !! 40
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|-
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! Recurve bow
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| style="background: #FFCD7B" | 34.60% || style="background: #FF9B72" | 25.50% || style="background: #FF6969" | 20.70% || style="background: #FF6969" | 18.85% || - || - || -
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|-
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! Pila
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| style="background: #69FF69" | 89.75% || style="background: #69FF69" | 83.45% || style="background: #9BFF72" | 71.80% || style="background: #9BFF72" | 70.85% || - || - || -
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|-
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|}
  
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==Quality table==
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{| class="wikitable sortable"
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|-
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! Quality !! Beauty !! Deterioration<br>
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rate
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! Market Value  !! Accuracy <br>
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(close)
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! Accuracy <br>
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(short)
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! Accuracy<br>
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(medium)
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! Accuracy<br>
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(long)
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! Damage !! Armor <br>
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Penetration
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! Melee Damage<br>
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Per Second
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! Melee <br>
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Armor Penetration
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|-
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| Awful || -3 || 4/day || $22.31 || 60% || 52% || 36% || 20% || 10 || 15% || 3.6 || 11%
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|-
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| Poor || -3 || 3/day || $33.48 || 67% || 58%  || 40% || 22% || 11 || 16% || 4.05 || 12%
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|-
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| Normal || -3 || 2/day || $44.64 || 75% || 65% || 45% || 25% || 11 || 16% || 4.5 || 13%
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|-
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| Good || -3 || 1.6/day || $55.80 || 83% || 72% || 50% || 28% || 11 || 16% || 4.95 || 15%
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|-
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| Excellent || -3 || 1.2/day || $66.96 || 90% || 78%|| 54% || 30% || 11 || 16% || 5.4 || 16%
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|-
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| Masterwork || -3 || 0.6/day || $111.60 || 100% || 88% || 61% || 34% || 14 || 21% || 6.53 || 20%
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|-
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| Legendary || -3 || 0.2/day || $225 || 100% || 98% || 67% || 38% || 16 || 25% || 7.42 || 22%
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|}
  
 
== Graphs ==
 
== Graphs ==

Revision as of 08:54, 26 April 2020

Short bow

Short bow

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

Base Stats

Type
Equipment – Weapons
Weapon Class
Neolithic
Market Value
45 Silver
Mass
0.8 kg

Ranged Combat

Mode
Single-Shot
Damage
11 dmg
Armor penetration
16%
Warm-Up
81 ticks (1.35 secs)
Cooldown
99 ticks (1.65 secs)
Range
22.9 tile(s)
Accuracy
75% - 65% - 45% - 25%
Avg. accuracy
64.8%
Velocity
44 (m/s)
Burst Count
1 (per burst)
DPS
3.67 (2.38)
Stopping power
0.5

Creation


The short bow is a very light, single-shot ranged weapon in RimWorld which deals a moderate amount of damage per shot; slightly longer time between shots; slightly shorter range and moderate accuracy.

Overview

The short bow is a low-tier neolithic weapon, and also the easiest ranged weapon to acquire in the game thanks to its extremely low resource requirement, lack of a requirement for proper facilities and a complete lack of research requirements. With scenarios such as naked brutality, a short bow is essential to earlygame survival as a safe means of hunting and basic defense against hostile wildlife and raiders. Curiously, short bows also have a slightly higher armor penetration rating than the much more powerful greatbow.


However, short bows are also the only neolithic ranged weapons that can't stagger humans, which puts them at a disadvantage against melee units. The short bow also has the 3rd lowest damage output out of all ranged weapons in the game, only beating the pila and incendiary launcher - the latter being a support weapon rather than straight-up aggro. Other weaknesses include low accuracy for a neolithic weapon (especially at medium range), as well as a rather slow projectile velocity. Naturally, a short bow will be significantly overshadowed in terms of combat performance by even the most basic of firearms such as autopistols and revolvers, with two short bows being required to match a single one of the aforementioned firearms.


The short bow is best-suited for close-quarters engagements overall since it's most accurate up to short ranges, and because of its sub-par projectile velocity. It's also a somewhat viable hunting weapon for smaller and lower-risk game.


Against an unarmored human, a short bow can kill with 4 hits to the torso, 3 hits to the head or neck, or 1 hit to the brain; cripple or destroy limbs in 3 hits; and cripple or destroy eyes and digits with a single hit. It'll generally take around 6 hits (~27.8 seconds average) to incapacitate that human from pain shock.


Overall, the short bow is best paired with a careful shooter until level 9, and with a trigger-happy shooter beyond that point.


Melee Combat

Tool Attack Damage Type Power AP Cooldown Likelihood Base DPS
Overall - - 9 13% 2.00s - 4.50
Limb Blunt Blunt 9 13% 2.00s 50.00% 4.50
Limb Poke Blunt 9 13% 2.00s 50.00% 4.50

Obtaining

Short bows can be purchased from neolithic war merchants and orbital combat suppliers, tribal and outlander settlements, or obtained from the following raider kinds:

Raider Kind Chance Average Quality Health
Archer 92.27% Poor 50-180%


Short bows can also be manufactured at any smithy or a crafting spot with no research required; from 30 wood and 2,400 ticks (40 secs) of work. A crafting skill of at least 2 is required.


You also start with two short bows with the lost tribe scenario, along with some pila, a wooden club, a steel ikwa and a jade knife (main article).


Short Bow vs. Comparable Weapons

This section goes over how well the short bow 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 shooting
  • No pawns have any traits that affect combat performance
  • All pawns are of 18 years of age and completely healthy
  • Pawns are divided by walls to prevent stray shots from skewing results in any way
  • Weather conditions are kept clear and no cover is used


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


Unarmored

For the unarmored testing, all pawns wore normal quality plainleather pants and plainleather button-down shirts.

Short bow vs. 3 7 12 18 25 32 40
Recurve bow 38.85% 31.25% 25.70% 22.75% - - -
Pila 82.20% 77.60% 66.05% 64.50% - - -


Flak Armor

For the flak armor testing, all pawns wore normal quality steel simple helmets, flak jackets, flak vests, plainleather button-down shirts and flak pants.

Short bow vs. 3 7 12 18 25 32 40
Recurve bow 36.60% 31.75% 20.75% 22.80% - - -
Pila 90.15% 84.80% 74.65% 72.60% - - -


Marine Armor

For the marine armor testing, all pawns wore normal quality marine helmets, marine armor, plainleather button-down shirts and plainleather pants.

Short bow vs. 3 7 12 18 25 32 40
Recurve bow 34.60% 25.50% 20.70% 18.85% - - -
Pila 89.75% 83.45% 71.80% 70.85% - - -

Quality table

Quality Beauty Deterioration

rate

Market Value Accuracy

(close)

Accuracy

(short)

Accuracy

(medium)

Accuracy

(long)

Damage Armor

Penetration

Melee Damage

Per Second

Melee

Armor Penetration

Awful -3 4/day $22.31 60% 52% 36% 20% 10 15% 3.6 11%
Poor -3 3/day $33.48 67% 58% 40% 22% 11 16% 4.05 12%
Normal -3 2/day $44.64 75% 65% 45% 25% 11 16% 4.5 13%
Good -3 1.6/day $55.80 83% 72% 50% 28% 11 16% 4.95 15%
Excellent -3 1.2/day $66.96 90% 78% 54% 30% 11 16% 5.4 16%
Masterwork -3 0.6/day $111.60 100% 88% 61% 34% 14 21% 6.53 20%
Legendary -3 0.2/day $225 100% 98% 67% 38% 16 25% 7.42 22%

Graphs

The graphs assume a normal quality short bow against an adult human that's out in the open in clear weather. For DPS, projectile speed has also been factored into the equation, with the weighting based on the base amount of attacks that it'll take to put the aforementioned target into pain shock.


Short bow's accuracy with various shooters without any trait. Short bow's DPS with various shooters without any trait.

Short bow's accuracy with various shooters with careful shooter. Short bow's DPS with various shooters with careful shooter.

Short bow's accuracy with various shooters with trigger-happy. Short bow's DPS with various shooters with trigger-happy.


Weapons
Melee | Neolithic
Breach axe • Club • Ikwa • Knife (Jade) • Spear
Medieval
Gladius • Longsword • Mace • Axe Content added by the Royalty DLC • Warhammer Content added by the Royalty DLC
Ultra
Eltex staff Content added by the Royalty DLC • Monosword (Persona) Content added by the Royalty DLC • Plasmasword (Persona) Content added by the Royalty DLC • Zeushammer (Persona) Content added by the Royalty DLC
Improvised
Beer • Elephant tusk • Thrumbo horn • Wood
Ranged | Neolithic
Greatbow • Pila • Recurve bow • Short bow • Flamebow Content added by the Biotech DLC
Industrial
Assault rifle • Autopistol • Bolt-action rifle • Chain shotgun • Heavy SMG • Launcher (EMP, Incendiary, Smoke, Toxbomb Content added by the Biotech DLC) • 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 Content added by the Biotech DLC
Mechanoid
Heavy charge blaster • Inferno cannon • Needle gun • Thump cannon • Beam graser Content added by the Biotech DLC • Charge blaster turret Content added by the Biotech DLC • Hellsphere cannon Content added by the Biotech DLC • Mini-flameblaster Content added by the Biotech DLC • Mini-shotgun Content added by the Biotech DLC • Slugthrower Content added by the Biotech DLC • Spiner Content added by the Biotech DLC • Toxic needle gun Content added by the Biotech DLC
Structures
Autocannon • Mini-turret gun • Mortar (Weapon) • Uranium slug cannon • Auto-mortar Content added by the Royalty DLC • Inferno cannon (Turret) Content added by the Royalty DLC • Light charge blaster Content added by the Royalty DLC • Mini-slugger Content added by the Royalty DLC • Tactical turret gun Content added by the Anomaly DLC

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