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

As is typical with any sharp weapon, longsword attacks cause bleeding, and generally fares poorly against armor when compared to blunt weapons.

The longsword has the highest base damage output out of any weapon in the game; having a 13.3% higher base damage output than the mace, which is the most powerful blunt weapon in the game. However, due to the longsword's long cooldown, it's not recommendable to equip a poorly-skilled person with this beast of a weapon. Plasteel longswords are extremely dangerous weapons, and can handily cut down opponents, thanks to its gladius-like cooldown and enhanced damage per hit.

When it comes to facing up against a normal armor vest, a steel longsword will still trail even a modest stone club in terms of DPS, therefore a steel club will perform significantly better. Although plasteel longswords fare somewhat better since they have such a high damage output to begin with, they still trail steel clubs in this department.

Obtaining

Longswords can be purchased from any outlander and orbital combat suppliers, or obtained from outlander and pirate raiders. Longswords can also be crafted at any smithy once the smithing research has been completed; from 120 of any metallic or wooden material, and 22,000 ticks (6.11 mins) of work.

Combat Performance per Material

Materials	Wood	Steel	Plasteel	Silver	Gold	Uranium
Damage	5	17	20	9	5	19
Cooldown	2.25s	2.5s	2s	2.5s	2.75s	3.38s
Base DPS ^[1]	2.222	6.8	10	3.6	1.818	5.621
Armored DPS ^[2]	1.2	3.24	4.5	1.8	0.982	2.663

↑ Damage per second
↑ Normal quality armor vest (50% sharp damage reduction and 10% deflection; 20% blunt damage reduction)

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

[1] Damage per second

[2] Normal quality armor vest (50% sharp damage reduction and 10% deflection; 20% blunt damage reduction)

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 |mode = Melee
-|warmup = 0
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+The longsword is a melee weapon in RimWorld that does a large amount of damage, has a long cooldown, and deals sharp damage.
-{{Info|The Longsword is the highest DPS melee weapon which can be crafted out of different materials. It takes 120 [[materials]] to make.}}
+As is typical with any sharp weapon, longsword attacks cause bleeding, and generally fares poorly against armor when compared to blunt weapons.
-==Gameplay Overview==
-As mentioned, the Longsword has the highest damage output out of any melee weapon in the game, slightly beating the [[Spear]] and handily outclassing anything else. However, the Longsword also has the highest material cost and a significantly longer crafting time than any other melee weapon, so you're essentially paying a premium to make these.
-High quality Plasteel Longswords can easily incapacitate or kill a person due to their ''extremely'' high damage per hit. However, it's not recommended to put a Longsword in the hands of an amateur as a miss with a Longsword can be very costly due to the long cooldown that follows. Longswords can typically be found on pirates and outlanders in the mid-later game or higher difficulties, and can give the colony an advantage in melee attack power if one is to be acquired.
+The longsword has the highest base damage output out of any weapon in the game; having a 13.3% higher base damage output than the [[mace]], which is the most powerful blunt weapon in the game. However, due to the longsword's long cooldown, it's not recommendable to equip a poorly-skilled person with this beast of a weapon. [[Plasteel]] longswords are extremely dangerous weapons, and can handily cut down opponents, thanks to its [[gladius]]-like cooldown and enhanced damage per hit.
-A Plasteel Longsword can handily outclass a Steel [[Gladius]] as it has pretty much the same cooldown period, but a significantly higher damage per hit.
+When it comes to facing up against a normal armor vest, a [[steel]] longsword will still trail even a modest [[Materials#Stone_Blocks|stone]] [[club]] in terms of DPS, therefore a steel club will perform significantly better. Although plasteel longswords fare somewhat better since they have such a high damage output to begin with, they still trail steel clubs in this department.
-It is '''the''' optimal melee weapon for use in any situation that requires the target be dead. If you need your targets alive, it's best that you use the [[mace]] instead, which more likely to down targets and doesn't leave behind bleeding wounds making them easier to treat.
-=== Crafting ===
+===Obtaining===
+Longswords can be purchased from any outlander and orbital combat suppliers, or obtained from outlander and pirate [[raider]]s. Longswords can also be crafted at [[fueled smithy|any]] [[electric smithy|smithy]] once the [[research#smithing|smithing]] research has been completed; from 120 of any metallic or wooden [[materials|material]], and {{ticks|22000}} of work.
-As a [[Fueled smithy|smithy]]-only weapon, the Longsword can be made out of all of the metallic materials or wood. All DPS figures in the following table don't take accuracy into account, and assume Normal quality and full durability.
+===Combat Performance per Material===
+{| {{STDT| c_12 text-center}}
-{| {{STDT| sortable c_12 text-center}}
+!Materials
-!
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-|DPS (to 3 dp)
+|Base DPS <ref>Damage per second</ref>
 |2.222
-|'''6.8'''
+|6.8
-|'''10'''
+|10
-|'''3.6'''
+|3.6
 |1.818
-|'''5.621'''
+|5.621
+|- newline
+|Armored DPS <ref>Normal quality armor vest (50% sharp damage reduction and 10% deflection; 20% blunt damage reduction)</ref>
+|1.2
+|3.24
+|4.5
+|1.8
+|0.982
+|2.663
 |}
+<references/>
-DPS figures that are '''bold''' are those that are viable as they are greater than the base unarmed DPS (3.279), meaning those that aren't bold should generally be avoided as weapons.

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