EMP grenades

EMP grenades

EMP grenades

"Electromagnetic pulse grenades damaging to electronic equipment."

Base Stats

Type

Equipment – Weapons

"Modern Weapons" is not in the list (Neolithic Weapons, Medieval Weapons, Industrial Weapons, Spacer Weapons, Ultra Weapons, Mechanoid Weapons) of allowed values for the "Class" property.

Weapon Class

Modern

Ranged Combat

Mode

Single Thrown

Damage

80 dmg

Warm-Up

108 ticks (1.8 secs)

Cooldown

160 ticks (2.67 secs)

Range

12.9 tile(s)

Accuracy

-

Velocity

12 (m/s)

Burst Count

1 (per burst)

Miss Radius

1.0 tile(s)

Blast Radius

3.5

DPS

17.91

EMP grenades are throw-able weapons that can stun mechanoids, improvised turrets, mortars, deplete personal shields, and detonate mortar shells, but have no effect on humans and do not deal physical damage. A target that is stunned shows a mote saying 'STUN'. After being stunned, targets may randomly become 'Adapted' and gain stun immunity. This stun immunity is not permanent, but takes a long time to wear off (usually lasts longer than the fight that caused it).

They cannot be crafted, so when available from a combat trader or a downed invader, it's advisable to keep them.

EMP grenades are very effective against mechanoid centipedes. Their slow moving speed and large size makes them an easy target. They have a very high damage potential, so even temporarily shutting down their ability to attack will give your colonists an advantage in a battle.

It is a good idea to manually aim EMP grenades instead of letting the AI do that. AI will not lead the targets and will not attack targets which can only be hit by area of effect. Repeated applications of stun while the target is already stunned will cause stun adaptation to happen earlier, while not affecting stun time significantly.

Using EMP grenades against friendlies counts as an attack even if they aren't hurt.

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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

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