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Pila are slightly heavier, single-shot ranged weapons in RimWorld which deal a high amount of damage per shot; very long time between shots; slightly shorter range and moderate accuracy.

Overview

The most notable feature about a thrown pilum is its high damage amount (a double-edged sword in some cases), being higher than any other neolithic weapon's projectile and matching the sniper rifle. Stopping power is also superb, not only being able to stagger humans, but also many larger targets such as muffalo and grizzly bears.

Thanks to their aforementioned damage amount, as well as their tendency to strike internal body parts more often than other weapons, pila can easily maim (one hit can shatter a radius, femur, spine or cripple the pelvis) or even outright kill whoever's unlucky enough to be struck by them. This is a trait that's shared with the sniper rifle and the infamous charge lance. A thrown pilum's velocity is also very slow as to be expected, but the impact on overall DPS is relatively low in this weapon's case due to its extremely long warmup/cooldown cycle.

The pila's achille's heel is undoubtedly their aforementioned warmup/cooldown cycle; missing a throw can be costly not only because of the long time between throws in general, but also because that colonist will be unable to perform any actions for the entire 4-second cooldown duration. As a result, pila are the worst neolithic weapons in terms of damage output, and even the short bow bests pila in head-on fights. On top of that, a pilum has the shortest range out of all neolithic weapons, and only outranges both shotguns in-game as well as all grenade variations. Armor penetration and close-up accuracy are also both very poor, with the latter making it less-than-ideal to equip low-skilled shooters with pila.

Pila are more suited towards being supporting weapons in combat due to their stopping power and ability to disable targets, since their DPS is simply insufficient to effectively assume a head-on engagement role. Hunting's also a bit of a mixed bag: while the per-hit damage is great for this purpose, the pila's long cooldown along with its short range means that problems could arise if the quarry turns manhunter.

Against an unarmored human, a pilum can hit with 2 hits to the torso, 1-2 hits to the head, or 1 hit to the neck or brain; cripple or destroy limbs in 1-2 hits; and destroy eyes and digits with a single hit. It'll generally take around 3 hits (~39.8 seconds average) to incapacitate that human from pain shock.

Overall, pila are best paired with careful shooters up to level 6, then with trigger-happy shooters beyond that point.

Melee Combat

Tool	Attack	Damage Type	Power	Cooldown	Likelihood	Base DPS
Overall	-	-	9	2.00s	-	4.50
Shaft	Blunt	Blunt	9	2.00s	50.00%	4.50
Point	Stab	Sharp	9	2.00s	50.00%	4.50

Obtaining

Pila 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
Heavy Archer	50.71%	Normal	100%

Pila can also be manufactured at any smithy once the smithing research has been completed; from 70 wood and 7,000 ticks (1.94 mins) of work. A crafting skill of at least 3 is required.

Conclusion & Comparison

Being capable of instantly crippling limbs and destroying vital organs, pila can be very dangerous weapons if your colonists are either not armored or poorly-armored; a pilum is the second most damaging non-explosive ranged weapon in the game, only being surpassed by the sniper rifle. However, due to the arbitrary nature of combat, a pilum could also be 'wasted' by it only hitting an extremity such as a toe, or a nose - that combined with the fact that the pila's also the slowest 'firing' non-explosive ranged weapon in the game can be very detrimental.

A pilum's also one of the slowest projectiles in the game, seeing as it's thrown rather than fired: 15.6 c/s versus a mere 7.2 c/s for any grenade, or 24 c/s for an incendiary launcher bolt.

Compared to other neolithic weapons, the pila consistently gets beaten in a 1 vs. 1 against a recurve bow and against a greatbow, and trades blows with the short bow since they have similar sustained DPS. Therefore the pila's best used as a flanking weapon.

Graphs

The graphs assume normal quality pila 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.

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

Medieval: Nerve spiker

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 • Hellcat rifle • Incinerator

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

Related | Body part weapons: Prosthetic arm • Bionic arm • Archotech arm • Power claw • Field hand • Drill arm • Venom talon • Venom fangs • Knee spike • Elbow blade • Hand talon • Flesh whip

Integrated weapons: Grenadier armor • Phoenix armor

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 |name = Pila
 |image = Pila.png|Pila
-|description = Pila are spears for throwing. They take a long time to throw, and move slowly, but one hit can do heavy damage. The singular of pila is pilum.
+|description = Pila are spears for throwing. They take a long time to throw, but one hit can do heavy damage. This weapon represents a bundle of pila and can be thrown over and over. The singular of pila is pilum.
 |type = Equipment
 |type2 = Weapons
 |class = Neolithic
-|damage = 30
+|damage = 25
-|range = 20
+|armorPenetration = 10
-|accuracyTouch = 91
+|range = 18.9
+|accuracyTouch = 50
 |accuracyShort = 71
 |accuracyMedium = 50
@@ Line 20: / Line 21: @@
 |velocity = 26
 |buy = {{icon|wood|70}}
-|sell = {{icon|silver|131}}
+|sell = {{icon|silver|109}}
 |mass base = 4
+|stoppingPower = 2.5
 }}
 </onlyinclude>
-{{info|Pila are slightly heavier, single-shot ranged weapons in RimWorld which deal a high amount of damage per shot; very long time between shots; slightly shorter range and slightly higher accuracy.}}
+{{info|Pila are slightly heavier, single-shot ranged weapons in RimWorld which deal a high amount of damage per shot; very long time between shots; slightly shorter range and moderate accuracy.}}
-=== Combat performance ===
+==Overview==
+The most notable feature about a thrown pilum is its high damage amount (a double-edged sword in some cases), being higher than any other neolithic weapon's projectile and matching the [[sniper rifle]]. Stopping power is also superb, not only being able to stagger [[human]]s, but also many larger targets such as [[muffalo]] and [[grizzly bear]]s.
-It takes 2 shots to the torso to kill an unarmored human with pila, or around 3-4 shots against a human with a normal armor vest. A pilum can also instantly destroy digits and eyeballs, and will always cause lethal brain damage. It also only takes a single pilum to cripple a limb if the victim is unarmored.
+Thanks to their aforementioned damage amount, as well as their tendency to strike internal body parts more often than other weapons, pila can easily maim (one hit can shatter a radius, femur, spine or cripple the pelvis) or even outright kill whoever's unlucky enough to be struck by them. This is a trait that's shared with the sniper rifle and the infamous [[charge lance]]. A thrown pilum's velocity is also very slow as to be expected, but the impact on overall DPS is relatively low in this weapon's case due to its extremely long warmup/cooldown cycle.
-Since pila have a very long time between throws and have a fairly short range, it's best to pair a bundle of pila with a good shooter to make the most of them - a semi-competent shooter will also suffice at closer distances though. A healthy level 3 traitless shooter, level 0 careful shooter or level 7 trigger-happy can somewhat efficiently use pila up to 14 cells. However, a level 9 traitless shooter, level 6 careful shooter or level 11 trigger-happy shooter is advisable to efficiently use pila up to its maximum range of 20 cells.
+The pila's achille's heel is undoubtedly their aforementioned warmup/cooldown cycle; missing a throw can be costly not only because of the long time between throws in general, but also because that colonist will be unable to perform any actions for the entire 4-second cooldown duration. As a result, pila are the worst neolithic weapons in terms of damage output, and even the [[short bow]] bests pila in head-on fights. On top of that, a pilum has the shortest range out of all neolithic weapons, and only outranges [[pump shotgun|both]] [[chain shotgun|shotguns]] in-game as well as [[frag grenades|all]] [[molotov cocktails|grenade]] [[EMP grenades|variations]]. Armor penetration and close-up accuracy are also both very poor, with the latter making it less-than-ideal to equip low-skilled shooters with pila.
-On average, pila are best paired with a careful shooter until level 7, and with a trigger-happy shooter beyond that point.
+Pila are more suited towards being supporting weapons in combat due to their stopping power and ability to disable targets, since their DPS is simply insufficient to effectively assume a head-on engagement role. Hunting's also a bit of a mixed bag: while the per-hit damage is great for this purpose, the pila's long cooldown along with its short range means that problems could arise if the quarry turns manhunter.
-====Melee Combat====
-A pilum has a weapon bulk of 100%, but weapon bulk doesn't seem to have any observable effect on actual gameplay. Out of all ranged weapons in the game, a pilum performs the best in melee combat.
+Against an unarmored human, a pilum can hit with 2 hits to the torso, 1-2 hits to the head, or 1 hit to the neck or brain; cripple or destroy limbs in 1-2 hits; and destroy eyes and digits with a single hit. It'll generally take around 3 hits (~39.8 seconds average) to incapacitate that human from pain shock.
+Overall, pila are best paired with careful shooters up to level 6, then with trigger-happy shooters beyond that point.
-All possible melee attacks with a pilum:
+====Melee Combat====
 {| {{STDT| c_12 text-center}}
 !Tool
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 !Likelihood
 !Base DPS
-!Armored DPS
 |-
 !Overall
 !-
 !-
-!9.111
+!9
-!1.6s
+!2.00s
 !-
-!5.694
+!4.50
-!5.239
 |- newline
 |Shaft
-|Smash
 |Blunt
-|8
+|Blunt
-|1.6s
+|9
-|44.4%
+|2.00s
-|5
+|50.00%
-|4.6
+|4.50
 |- newline
 |Point
-|Smash
+|Stab
-|Blunt
+|Sharp
-|10
+|9
-|1.6s
+|2.00s
-|55.6%
+|50.00%
-|6.25
+|4.50
-|5.75
 |}
 ===Obtaining===
-Pila can be purchased from neolithic war merchants and orbital combat suppliers, or obtained from the following [[raider#Humanlike|raider]] kinds:
+Pila can be purchased from neolithic war merchants and orbital combat suppliers, tribal and outlander settlements, or obtained from the following [[raider#Humanlike|raider]] kinds:
-'''Tribal:'''
+{| class="wikitable sortable"
-* Heavy Archer - 43% (normal [[quality]] on average, 50-220% health)
+|-
+! Raider Kind !! Chance !! Average Quality !! Health
+|-
+| Heavy Archer || 50.71% || Normal || 100%
+|}
-Pila can also be manufactured at [[fueled smithy|a]] [[electric smithy|smithy]] once the [[research#Smithing|smithing]] research has been completed; from 70 [[wood]] and {{ticks|13000}} of work.
+Pila can also be manufactured at [[fueled smithy|any]] [[electric smithy|smithy]] once the [[research#Smithing|smithing]] research has been completed; from 70 [[wood]] and {{ticks|7000}} of work. A crafting skill of at least 3 is required.