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Blowgun
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- For a comparison of different weapons, see Weapon.
A blowgun is a ranged weapon that fires projectiles called blowdarts. Blowguns are relatively rare, being used primarily by certain bands of animal people. Currently it is not possible for your dwarves to add a poison or toxin to a weapon without significant workarounds (and a bit of luck), making blowguns even more underwhelming.
As ranged weapons, blowguns use and train the blowgunner skill; as melee weapons blowguns use and train the swordsdwarf skill instead. Dwarves cannot normally forge blowguns nor darts, limiting supply to whatever low-quality specimens can be wrested from indigenous populations. During a strange mood, however, an aspiring yet misguided bowyer may create an artifact blowgun at a bowyer's workshop. Even if you do manage to get your hands on a blowgun, the severe lack of ammunition will make it nearly impossible to field an effective blowgun-dwarf. All dwarves can equip blowguns.
Bugs
- If squad is assigned multiple ammo types, dwarves with "individual choice ranged" may carry wrong ammoBug:1374.
[ITEM_WEAPON:ITEM_WEAPON_BLOWGUN]
[NAME:blowgun:blowguns]
[SIZE:150]
[SKILL:SWORD]
[RANGED:BLOWGUN:BLOWDART]
[SHOOT_FORCE:100]
[SHOOT_MAXVEL:1000] I suppose you could blow harder and harder, but the force prevents it from getting out of hand.
[TWO_HANDED:0]
[MINIMUM_SIZE:5000]
[MATERIAL_SIZE:2]
[ATTACK:BLUNT:10000:4000:bash:bashes:NO_SUB:1250]
[ATTACK_PREPARE_AND_RECOVER:3:3] |
| Ranged and ammunition | |
|---|---|
| Blunt | |
| Edged (slashing) | |
| Edged (piercing) | |
| See also: Attack types | |