Spear

Spear

"A polearm tipped with a sharp point for stabbing opponents in melee combat."

Base Stats

Type

Equipment – Weapons

Weapon Class

Neolithic

Mass

2 kg

Damage

15 dmg

Cooldown

138 ticks (2.3 secs)

DPS

6.52

Mode

Melee

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

As is typical with any sharp weapon, spear attacks cause bleeding, and generally fares poorly against armor when compared to blunt weapons. Just like the club, the spear is a melee weapon that tribals use - but unlike the club, spears must be produced at a smithy.

Spears have the second highest base damage output out of all melee weapons in RimWorld, with the highest being the longsword. On that note, the spear seems to serve as a middle-ground between the gladius and the longsword, seeing as its damage output and cost also stands right between the two weapons.

However, against armor, a steel spear will theoretically perform slightly worse than a stone club, and a plasteel spear will perform about as well as a wooden club.

Obtaining

Spears can be purchased from any combat supplier or war merchant, or obtained from any melee raiders - with the exception of drifters and thrashers. Spears can also be crafted at any smithy once the smithing(and as of the most recent updates long blades) research has been completed; from 90 of any metallic or wooden material, and 17,000 ticks (4.72 mins) of work.

Combat Performance per Material

Materials	Wood	Steel	Plasteel	Silver	Gold	Uranium
Damage	5	15	18	8	5	17
Cooldown	2.07s	2.3s	1.84s	2.3s	2.53s	3.11s
Base DPS	2.415	6.522	9.783	3.478	1.976	5.466
Armored DPS	1.304	3.13	4.402	1.565	1.067	2.605

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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